Author: Janae Bower

Got your attention, huh? I thought God might. I can’t really tackle God as case study in this blog entry, but thought I would try to add some insight. Actually what I plan to do is share some thoughts around how to tap into our relationship with God to increase spirituality in our lives.

A book called God is a Salesman by Mark Stevens, a Business Week bestselling author, caught my attention. With “Lead by Faith: Pray for God’s Guidance” as the number one value for my business, I thought this book might help me. The author shares how he put his insights into this book not from a particular religious perspective, but from having a personal relationship or communing with God. He said, “If we understand how and why we have faith in God, we can use this power to create and lead more successful lives.”

I love the concept of learning about our spirituality from “The Master.” Here are a few of his components from the book that really struck me in how we can follow the insights and guidance that God gives us so we can deeper and connect more meaningfully to what matters most to us!!

God’s presence

Mindfulness, living in the moment and other words describe the importance of being present. Being in God’s presence allows us to have a deeper connection and more meaningful life. We feel rested, peaceful and calm. The more I experience His presence, the more I want to be there.

God’s loyalty

The great thing about God’s loyalty is that it’s eternal! No matter what mistakes we make today, God is willing to forgive those whose hearts are sorry and focused on Him. Knowing that I have this loyalty with God enables me to reach further and take risks that I might otherwise not take.

God’s listening

I read in another book the other day that we tend to only recall 50% of something we just listened to. Not God. He is the best listener. He listens to our prayers, our pleas, and our problems. He hears our shouts of joy and thanksgiving. He also listens intently to the deepest desires of our hearts, those dreams or fears we’ve never shared. He is never distracted. He never interrupts. He advises us and gives guidance if we choose to listen to him.

God’s attraction

Stevens shares how God is a magnet because people all over the world turn to Him and search Him out. Are you a magnet? When we are living authentic and spiritual lives, we too will become magnets and we attract people, encouraging them to live out their highest selves.

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For more resources, see our Library topic Spirituality in the Workplace.

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Janae Bower is an inspirational speaker, award-winning author and training consultant. She founded Finding IT, a company that specializes in personal and professional development getting to the heart of what matters most. She started Project GratOtude, a movement to increase gratitude in people’s lives.

Yes, this is the Linda who co-hosts this blog with me. What a wonderful opportunity for me to share with you more about Linda’s philosophy and work around spirituality.

A few months back I interviewed Linda as one of the gratitude experts for Project GratOtude. This interview shares a lot of her mindset and work she’s done around spirituality, including:

• the importance of integrity, purpose and passion
• living in alignment with who you really are and bringing this out to the world
• a couple of great spiritual analogies using a plant/flower and hose
• appreciative inquiry and gratitude
• staying open to the flow of life
• transformational empowerment, and how critical faith, commitment and gratitude are to this process
• how each of us are “divine blessings” and “light beings” to the world

We encourage you to take some extra time (it lasts about an hour) and enjoy our interview as I gleam spiritual gems from Linda’s vast experience and passion around spirituality!

Click here to listen.

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For more resources, see our Library topic Spirituality in the Workplace.

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Janae Bower is an inspirational speaker, award-winning author and training consultant. She founded Finding IT, a company that specializes in personal and professional development getting to the heart of what matters most. She started Project GratOtude, a movement to increase gratitude in people’s lives.

In order for other people to grow deeper on their own spiritual path, I believe that we learn from others who have walked that path before us. Who I’m highlighting for E is Dr. Robert Emmons, whom many refer to as one of “the gratitude experts.” As a professor at the University of California, Davis, in the positive psychology movement, Dr. Emmons has researched the field of gratitude extensively. I refer to his book Thanks: How the New Science of Gratitude Can Make you Happier as my “gratitude bible” because it covers the study of gratitude from a vast perspective as well as being validated through scholarly research.

Through Dr. Emmons work on gratitude, I’ve grown deeper on my spiritual path. While I’ve had the pleasure of connecting with him as a student of gratitude, I don’t know personally what his spiritual practices are. However, in order to write such an incredible, life-changing work, I can only assume that he lives a grateful, inspired life. Here’s how his work around gratitude has helped me grow spirituality and I hope will impact you as well.

Appreciate life more fully

After reading his book, I realized the scientific data behind the importance of gratitude. Practicing and living it has multiple benefits for all of us not only emotionally and socially, but also physically and spirituality. This is when I decided to commit to embracing gratitude as one of my spiritual practices. When we can view the sacred working in our everyday lives and acknowledge it with grace and thanksgiving that is when we can experience life at a deeper place. We can appreciate life more fully as we know that God is working in us to grow more spirituality.

Thank God often

There is a chapter called Thanks Be to God: Gratitude and the Human Spirit. In this section he shares the deep historical roots regarding the tradition of giving thanks. “Where one finds religion, one finds gratitude. As long as people have believed in God, they have sought ways to express gratitude and thanksgiving to this God, the ultimate giver.” Gratitude is a universal commonality or underlying thread that all of the major world religions embrace.

Thanking God is core to each faith for us to grown in holiness in whatever path we are taking. In fact in the word thanks is mentioned in the bible over 150 times. Many of these verses I’ve now used for guidance. Like, “Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you…. – 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

Make gratitude vows

He suggests many ways that we can embrace gratitude as a way of life. One such way, for those of us who are spiritually inclined, is the concept of making gratitude vows. This idea touched my heart and I knew exactly this is what I needed to do. I shared how to make vows in my Project GratOtude movement and will do so with you as well. He refers to gratitude vows as as a pledge or an oath to practice and live out gratitude. Making a vow is public commitment that you make before others. He says, “For those spiritually inclined, making a vow to God is serious business. If we made a vow to others and forgot about it, we’d be off the hook. but God’s hook is deeper. God does not forget. A vow to God carries greater moral weight and authority than a vow to a mere human.”

I had a transforming experience of making gratitude vows to, for and with God. It is because of these vows that I made 2 1/2 years ago that Project GratOtude exists today. Two vows I made were to be “the great example” of gratitude and to “Return IT Backward” to those influential people in her life who have effected her work, like Oprah and Dr. Emmons.

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For more resources, see our Library topic Spirituality in the Workplace.

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Janae Bower is an inspirational speaker, award-winning author and training consultant. She founded Finding IT, a company that specializes in personal and professional development getting to the heart of what matters most. She started Project GratOtude, a movement to increase gratitude in people’s lives.

A few weeks ago I had the privilege of listening to Deepak Chopra speak in person at an inspiring minds series held just outside of Minneapolis. While he was speaking one of the things that really struck me was how brilliant his mind is. He’s one of those few people who are the leading edge thinkers in both the fields of science and spirituality.

He’s written so many books that go deep into spirituality, the one that I would like to share with you is The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams. He looks at the physical laws of the universe to explain these principles because “the physical laws of the universe are actually this whole process of divinity in motion, or consciousness in motion. When we understand these laws and apply them in our lives, anything we want can be created like the fulfillment of our deepest desires.”

1. The Law of Pure Potentiality. He explains we are made up of pure consciousness, which is our spiritual essence, and this is the field of all possibilities. When we can tap into the true self, our soul or spirit, and just be is when we can access this field of infinite intelligence. Meditation is a great way we can do this.
2. The Law of Giving. In our willingness to give what it is we seek, we keep the abundance of the universe circulating in our lives. For example if you want to receive more love, you must learn how to give more love. Gratefully receiving gifts from others and then gratefully giving gifts to others is another example of how this law operates.
3. The Law of Karma. We’ve often heard of this law as what we sow is what we reap. Every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in like kind. So when we are making choices in our lives, we need to think about what kind of effect or consequence will this action I’m taking make.
4. The Law of Least Effort. It states, “and when we harness the forces of harmony, joy and love, we create success and good fortune with effortless ease.” This is about the principle of harmony and love. Using nature as an analogy, grass doesn’t try to grow, it grows effortlessly. So when our actions are motivated by love, it multiples to others in effortless ways. So accepting and taking responsibility with a loving response for each moment will bring you effortless results.
5. The Law of Intention and Desire. According to Chopra, intention is the real power behind desire. Intention combined with detachment leads to “life-centered, present-moment awareness.” This is about accepting the present while at the same time intending the future.
6. The Law of Detachment. Ironically in order to acquire what we want in life we have to learn how to let go and surrender that very thing. You’re not giving up your intentions or desires, you are just detaching from the result. It’s when you step out into the unknown is when you can step into the magic of life.
7. The Law of Dharma or Purpose of Life. The question here to ask is what am I to give others and how to best serve humanity. He believes that we are all born with a unique purpose, something that we are better than anyone in the world, are our jobs should be to discover that. “Each of us is here to discover our higher self or our spiritual self.” Once we do that we can express our divinity by serving humanity.

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For more resources, see our Library topic Spirituality in the Workplace.

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Janae Bower is an inspirational speaker, award-winning author and training consultant. She founded Finding IT, a company that specializes in personal and professional development getting to the heart of what matters most. She started Project GratOtude, a movement to increase gratitude in people’s lives.

Imagine you have a mentor you can call on in any situation. Whenever uncertainty swarms, this wise person illuminates your best possible choice at any given moment. Never one to command or threaten, this mentor simply encourages in a voice that rarely rises above a gentle whisper. Wouldn’t life unfold much easier if such a mentor existed?

Truth is, this mentor does exist . . . within you.

Some call it instinct or intuition. Others call it a higher power. I choose to believe it’s a spiritual connection that resides beyond me and within me at the same time, much as a single drop of water is part of the ocean even as that ocean is in the drop of water.

But if this mentor, this voice, does exist, then why do so many choose to ignore it? I can only answer based on my experience.

For so long, I abandoned that mentor, even though I’d placed much faith in him when younger. Back then, his voice encouraged me to explore my world with great expectations. Then somewhere along my journey, as I matured—and I use that word loosely—I set aside those expectations to make “responsible” decisions using only logic for guidance. But logic only goes so far. And when used by itself to make life decisions, one can end up with something that only vaguely resembles living.

My inner mentor knew I wasn’t living my best life when he urged me to walk away from a high-paying job that had begun to hollow out my insides. I’m embarrassed to relay that it took seven years to do it, but after leaving, a peace lifted me and I’ve been floating ever since.

One thing I’ve noticed since recognizing the value of heeding my inner mentor is, alternate voices creep into my head sometimes. They are deceptive because they sound similar to my own voice, yet are negative in nature. Sometimes the voices warn me against the odds of success in the pursuit of my dreams. Sometimes they tell me I don’t know what I’m doing and I should give up.

Over time I’ve come to realize these voices are simply echoes of past influencers in my life. Some of these people only wanted to shelter me from what they perceived as a harsh world. Others did not have my best interests in mind and wanted to discourage me from chasing my dreams, I suspect, because they’d long since abandoned their own.

This world is a noisy place. So much screams for our attention. But know this: our personal mentor never discourages us . . . ever. If a voice within you yells, admonishes, or threatens, that’s what deserves ignoring. How else will you hear your inner mentor when he or she whispers to you?

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For more resources, see our Library topic Spirituality in the Workplace.

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Christopher Laney has written for numerous publications including aviation magazines. Using his experience as a pilot, he also pens the inspirational blog Lessons from the Cockpit: Everyday Wisdom from the Flying Life. Christopher recently completed his first novel about a man who yearns to fly and the mysterious flight instructor who takes him on as a student.

My perspective of spirituality in the workplace has changed over the years. I used to view it solely as integrating my spirituality at the workplace. Now more than ever, I look at is as putting my spirituality at work, wherever I’m working, with whoever I’m working with, doing whatever kind of work. This new perspective has widen my reach and broadened my perspective for how I approach this topic.

While I’ve been co-writing for a year with this blog, it’s fun for me to think about how I would describe the case study for my spirituality at work.

Divinely Inspired

I remember almost 10 years ago when I first emerged as wanting to have a business focusing on spirituality in the workplace (which I promoted at the time as spirit in work/life), it was a cutting edge thing to do and very misunderstood topic. One networking meeting I attended a woman blatantly accused me in front of all the attendees of wanting to promote my religious beliefs after just hearing me say the word “spirit”. After the session, another woman gently shared her apologies for how I was treated and introduced me to the word inspiration. She explained how it’s rooted in spirit, which might be a better word to help me to promote what I’m doing more easily for people to understand. So for the past 10 years my sole purpose has been to inspire others. I’ve helped to create inspired workplaces, hosted inspired women’s retreats, and wrote a couple of inspirational, illustrated books.

Prayer

Over the years my prayer life has tremendously increased. The power of praying is an integral part of how I practice my spirituality. Sometimes I say memorized prayers or I memorize other prayers I would like to learn. Others times I’ll just dialogue in a conversation with God regarding my prayers or prayers for other people. A couple of examples of how I’ve put my prayers to work is that I’ll actually take time at the moment someone is requesting a prayer to actually pray. I used to say “I’ll pray for you” and I’m not sure if I ever followed up on that request. Before my training classes or presentations, I’ll pray for the group that I’m working with. I’ll ask God to speak through me in order to best serve the group I’m connecting with. I’ve been doing this for the past couple of years and it has helped me connect more deeply with the audiences I’m blessed to work with. Before I write, I’ll say a prayer for divine inspiration and for the words to flow out of me that will best help others. When I’m done writing, I say a prayer as I send it off that those who need to read it will find it.

Support Groups

We are not meant to experience life alone. The power of having a like-minded group in which you can share your faith with has been something that I have sought and created. After college I didn’t want to lose the spiritual path that I had been on, so I worked with a couple of other friends to form a women’s spirituality group. We named our group WINGS (Women In Nourishing Groups for the Soul). This spiritual friendship that we’ve formed has allowed the three of us to grow in tremendous ways that we all attribute to the work we’ve done through WINGS. Another group that I help co-found is a small group marriage ministry at our church called Couples in Christ. This allows couples to meet together in a small group to focus on their faith and marriage. This ministry has helped my husband and I grow more deeply in our lives together as well as the other 20+ couples involved int he ministry. I’m also part of a women’s Bible study at our church. We have a small group that we share intimately with and I’ve learned so much about my religion as being part of this group.

Gratitude

If you’ve read any of my posts before, you know that gratitude is a way of life for me. Giving gratitude and practicing gratitude is a wonderful example of how I’ve put my spirituality to work. Whenever I connect with someone, whether it’s a stranger or one of my closest friends, I’m always thinking about how I can show my gratitude for them. Learning to be grateful and feeling grateful is what actually brings more things in our lives to be grateful about. For example, I was listening to a christian radio station of a speaker that I like. I was giving gratitude for his talk and all that I learned in the 15 of listening to him. He then announced that he was having a free MP3 event of all of this presentations. So I went to the site and not only was I able to download for free the series I was listening to, but many other great presentations. Because I was grateful for the little, I was given a lot to be grateful for. Again, for more on what I believe about gratitude, you can go to Project GratOtude.

Reading

I read a ton! Most of my books have a spiritual focus. I start out the morning with a daily devotional and continue to read whenever I can throughout the day. All the support groups that I’m a part of have a book that we study with the intent of growing my spirituality. I’ve noticed that my spirituality philosophy is shaped by the authors that I read. I tend to connect with some concepts that are introducing, try them out and eventually have the opportunity to teach it.

Teaching It

The best way to really learn and internalize something is to teach it. I’m so grateful that formally through my writing, speaking and training business I’m able to do that. Informally, I share with friends what I’m learning which is another way of teaching. My three sons (and husband) are also great students for me. One way I’m teaching them about their spirituality is by doing a devotional and gratitude journal before they go to school in the mornings. Thank you for the opportunity in this blog to teach what I’m learning regarding spirituality at work.

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For more resources, see our Library topic Spirituality in the Workplace.

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Janae Bower is an inspirational speaker, award-winning author and training consultant. She founded Finding IT, a company that specializes in personal and professional development getting to the heart of what matters most. She started Project GratOtude, a movement to increase gratitude in people’s lives.

**As I start this A-Z case study series of people living out their spirituality at work, I want to start with a big disclaimer. Unless the person wrote the article themselves, these examples will be my interpretation of how they practice their spirituality in the workplace or at home. I will be providing insights and examples from what I’ve learned, heard about or observed. So please keep this in mind, that these aren’t the featured person’s exact words it is my opinion and observation unless otherwise stated.

How Mac is making a positive difference in the world through his businesses

I selected Mac Anderson because he is a wonderful example who has provided encouragement, inspiration and hope in workplaces all over the world through his work. Mac originally started Successories, the company that launched the motivational quotes with beautiful photography wall and office decor that you see in many workplaces. Now Mac founded another company called Simple Truths. Simple Truths is an online company that provides the “gift of inspiration” through it’s beautiful books, frames and other inspirational gifts.

In the book, The Big Idea, written by Mac and published by Simple Truths, he talks about his journey with Successories and creating a niche with motivational wall decor. “My purpose was to try to make a positive difference in what I felt was a pretty negative world. My passion and unwavering faith in what we were doing was the fuel that helped conquer the many obstacles we faced along the way.”

The gift of one-of-a-kind inspiration by reinforcing core values

He continues to make a positive difference with the products from Simple Truths. Since 2005, Simple Truths has become the leading provider of inspirational gift books designed to reinforce core values. After selling Successories in 2004, Mac published three successful gift books – The Nature of Success, The Power of Attitude and The Essence of Leadership. In each of these books Mac incorporated his great eye for design, photography, inspirational stories and motivational quotes. The end result were three highly engaging, motivational and inspirational books that became great gifts for customers, employees, friends and family members. Since that time, Simple Truths has published over 50 different titles with authors that include Ken Blanchard, Barbara Glanz, Todd Duncan, Vince Lombardi, Jr. and Michael McMillan.

Simple Truths’ gift books are hardbound, high quality and designed to be quick and inspirational reads. Typically, each gift book is less than 121 pages long, abundantly full of great photography, motivational stories and quotes. Each title is designed to reinforce a core value such as Leadership, Teamwork or Making a Difference.

Simple Truths is the first publisher to sell direct and not through traditional retail channels. As a result, when you give a Simple Truths gift book to a customer, prospect, co-worker, friend or family member you can trust that it will be a unique and greatly appreciated gift. These gift books are the perfect gift to thank a customer or to inspire a prospect.

With many of their books, they have a short inspirational DVD movie that brings the essence of the book to life. These FREE movies are beautiful and touch the souls of those who see them. Their first one based upon the inspirational gift book The Dash (www.thedashmovie.com). Since 2006 it has been viewed by 25 million people world-wide. I use many of their movies like The Dash in my trainings and presentations because they provide profound messages that gets to the heart of what we are talking about. To view all of their current movies Click Here.

Listen to a recorded interview to gain first-hand knowledge about Simple Truths and Mac Anderson

Because I believe in the power of their products, I became an affiliate of Mac’s company, Simple Truths, as well as featured some of their inspirational gifts this month through my Project GratOtude challenge. I had an opportunity to interview one of their employees, Julie Dumler, who is the Director of Strategic Partnerships.

In this recorded inspirational interview with Julie, you can learn first-hand more about Simple Truths, Mac Anderson and few of their books/movies that relate to the power of gratitude. You’ll also receive a special offer to receive one of their beautiful inspirational books so YOU too like Mac and keep making a positive difference in the world.

Click here to listen.

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For more resources, see our Library topic Spirituality in the Workplace.

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Janae Bower is an inspirational speaker, award-winning author and training consultant. She founded Finding IT, a company that specializes in personal and professional development getting to the heart of what matters most. She started Project GratOtude, a movement to increase gratitude in people’s lives.

Greetings,

After completing my A-Z blogs on Spirituality at Work, I would like to build on this example by highlighting examples of people living out their spirituality. I’ll be writing another A-Z blog series, this time highlighting case studies of how people live out their spirituality at work and home.

For example, for the letter B I could do B is for Janae Bower and then share with you my spirituality practices. I plan on highlighting everyday people like us as well as well-known authors.

I’m looking for YOU! I would love to highlight you and what you do as part of my series. You could write your own blog entry or I could interview you. If you are interested in being part of my new series, please comment below stating:

• Your name
• Why you would like to be part of this series
• A brief list of a few things you do to foster your spirituality
• If you would like to write the article or be interviewed

Thank you in advance for your participation. I know that this series will really provide all of us with practical examples of living out our spirituality.

Blessings,

Janae

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For more resources, see our Library topic Spirituality in the Workplace.

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Janae Bower is an inspirational speaker, award-winning author and training consultant. She founded Finding IT, a company that specializes in personal and professional development getting to the heart of what matters most. She started Project GratOtude, a movement to increase gratitude in people’s lives.

“Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.” – Alfred Painter

Thank YOU for taking the time to read my A-Z Spirituality in the Workplace series and share your comments. I was inspired to write this poem to capture the essence of this work.

The A-Z of your Soul at Work

May you…

feel blessed with Aliveness

don’t just wish, but really follow your Bliss

foster deep Connections with those who matter most to you

Receive Divine inspiration for true guidance and direction

be Engaged and fully present in all that you do

take having Fun seriously

instill the power of Gratitude to change your perspective and your life

find the joy of Happiness following you wherever you go

breathe life into the Inspiration within you

be the Joy to others you want to have in this world

don’t hold ransom your random acts of Kindness

Love unconditionally, Love unconventionally and Love uncontrollably

Share your devotion, recognition and Motivation with others

know when to say No to doing more so you can say yes to loving more

feel the Oneness that surrounds us at all times and in all ways

be purposeful about living out your God-given Purpose

wrap yourself in the calming presence of Quiet

remember to revel in your Relationships

lead with Service and follow with more

spend Time loving the time you spent

let your Uniqueness light the path for others to shine theirs

value the gift of Vulnerability to open the valley of your soul

work Wholeheartedly at everything you do

surprise others with eXtra special touches from the heart

Yearn for more of what your soul longs for

never forget this about life – get a little Zany with it!

With love and gratitude,

Janae Bower

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For more resources, see our Library topic Spirituality in the Workplace.

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Janae Bower is an inspirational speaker, award-winning author and training consultant. She founded Finding IT, a company that specializes in personal and professional development getting to the heart of what matters most. She started Project GratOtude, a movement to increase gratitude in people’s lives.

It makes me smile to finish up this series with Z is for Zany. I believe at times we all need to let loose and be a little crazy and “out there.” It’s fun and can really lighten things up.

Personal Style

We all have a personal style. A weekly update from Oprah shared tips on how you can find your own style, here the example was for fashion. It was interesting and made me think about how my fashion (or lack of it) projects my personal style. I do believe we also have a personal style at work too. How might people describe yours? Maybe you’re someone who always gets people laughing or you’re the one that people can always count on. Or would you be pegged as the “negative Nelly” always complaining about something? We all bring a personal style to our work, whether we are conscious of it or not.

Professional Zaniness

Being a speaker and trainer, I’m very aware of the importance of having and living out our personal style. It’s our job to observe others and try out things to see if it fits our personal style. For example, we might observe others and often wish that we could be more eloquent with our words or better able to tell a story that really draws others in.

One of the ways that I would describe my style is zany – playful and lighthearted. So I’m not the one who might come totally dressed in clown outfit to make a presentation, but I’m one who will lighten the mood to make it fun and playful. This is zany for me and it works. I strive to connect with my participants in a comfortable way while stretching them to see things in a different way. I tend to do this in a playful way often using props or demonstrations. For example, in one of my trainings I have participants take off their glasses and give them to someone else to wear. We have fun with it as people are laughing at how “stylish” their new look is or how their new “vision” looks. I had one gentleman say while laughing, “you are really pushing us now.” I explain how this playful exercise really has an important point – how we all see the world through our own lens or glasses and how different the world looks when we see it through others.

Personal Zaniness

Our work is often carried over in our personal lives as well. Another example of how my zaniness is displayed is through the annual Valentine’s Day party that my husband and I host every year. This is our 10^th annual party and here is a picture of me with the theme for the year, a slumber party.

What my husband and I have found that we more we get into it, the more others will also have fun getting into the mood. We decided many years ago that we didn’t want to have the ordinary party where people get together, most who don’t know each other, eat some, drink more and then go home. We decided that we would have themes, play games, have team and couple competitions. Now that we’ve been doing this for a while, our friends know what to expect and really get into it. We have a great time and it’s always memorable because of it zaniness. Our friends ask us months in advance about our theme.

Like Caribou Coffee says, “life is short, stay awake for it.” I would also add, “so why not get a little zany with it!”

Share with us, how you get a little zany!

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For more resources, see our Library topic Spirituality in the Workplace.

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Janae Bower is an inspirational speaker, award-winning author and training consultant. She founded Finding IT, a company that specializes in personal and professional development getting to the heart of what matters most. She started Project GratOtude, a movement to increase gratitude in people’s lives.