Working with amazing people for the past thirteen years led me to recognize what seemed to be consistent themes in people's lives. With each consultation it became clearer that each person wasn't aware of his or her own special wiring. All of them were more tied into what wasn't working rather than what was and more willing to acknowledge their seemingly shortcomings rather than their skills. While I could acknowledge what was amazing in them, they weren't quite there yet. What grew from this experience was knowledge that I could offer a to-go package that would help while on their journey, perhaps holding the energy of their greatness until they were ready to see it. This is that to-go package-a combination of humor, practical advice, and respect for energy that can guide anyone to self-acceptance, empowerment, and the manifestation of the absolute joy life can offer. Learn how to combine all of these elements and live the life you want and know you are meant to have.

Everyone Has an IT

A Guide to Help You Accept, Accentuate, and Appreciate YoursBy VICKI BAIRD

Balboa Press

Copyright © 2012 Vicki Baird
All right reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4525-4841-8

Contents

Vicki's Thank you!.............................................................viiIntroduction: What is an IT?...................................................ixCHAPTER 1. Your Current IT.....................................................3CHAPTER 2. Inner Truth.........................................................6CHAPTER 3. Inner Trickster.....................................................10CHAPTER 4. Identity Theft......................................................14CHAPTER 5. Instant Tragedy.....................................................20CHAPTER 6. Inner Turmoil.......................................................24CHAPTER 7. Don't Name It, Claim It or Blame It.................................29CHAPTER 8. Where did I put IT?.................................................33CHAPTER 9. Do You Fear It or Get Excited by It?................................37CHAPTER 10. My IT may not be Your IT, but it's Still an IT.....................42CHAPTER 11. Inspirational Technology...........................................46CHAPTER 12. Innate Timing......................................................50CHAPTER 13. Shhhhhhhh IT.......................................................54CHAPTER 14. Intuitive Training.................................................61CHAPTER 15. Identifying Talent.................................................66CHAPTER 16. Letting Go of It...................................................70CHAPTER 17. I Did IT!..........................................................75CHAPTER 18. Ask For it!........................................................79CHAPTER 19. Go for IT!.........................................................82CHAPTER 20. You've Got IT!.....................................................86

Chapter One

Your Current IT

Identifying what one is currently working on can take a lot of stress out of life. We often push against the energy of change so ignoring what is right in front of us is easy. As one of my brilliant clients said once "but Vicki, it takes a lot of courage to imagine your life different." Yes, it does, but that ability to see different scenarios is the beauty of being human, being eternal, and being a soul. Do you have the courage to see your life different? Do you have the courage to believe that your IT, when brought to light, can actually enhance your life? I believe you do. I believe it because I know everyone has the ability to grow beyond where their current limitations are set and I know that with a little encouragement great height can be attained.

Being willing to look at whatever is feeling out of sorts with us is one of our greatest abilities. To factor, to sort, to delve into the deepest depths and come up with the oyster is what makes being a human so great. We perhaps just need to learn how to do it without judging it so that it doesn't hurt so stinking much and so we can find the joy that life is meant to be. So, are you ready to do that? What if I said I would be here to encourage all along this journey, would that make it easier? I am, so let's get started.

For each question, be as honest as possible.

• What in your life do you find annoying?

• What would you like to change if you had a magic wand?

• How is ignoring the truth helping you right now? If it wasn't filling some kind of need, you wouldn't keep doing it.

• Is there ingrained teaching leading the continuation of the behavior or habit?

When I have a current IT I am working on, I can procrastinate with the skill worthy of a PhD in procrastination! What my clients have taught me to do, while in the process of reading for them, is address whatever it is I don't want to do at the time and bring light to it. Often it isn't as scary as it seems. An analogy of this is when a child is scared of a monster in their room, often if you turn on a light it is a sweatshirt they didn't put away. Our internal fears are often the same, when there is a light shown on it though, they are not as scary.

When I do this it no longer has control of me or my day. I may determine the time I spend ignoring it could be used to complete the task such as doing the dishes or writing this chapter!

I may also use my choice to address it later when I am more in enjoyment of what needs doing. When we do something when it doesn't feel right, we introduce resistance to the very thing we were trying to release. So, if we leave it and come back to it when there is less friction, whatever the task is or the fear, it will dissipate so much easier. This requires a bit of flexibility but also an internal commitment that may have to be developed over time. This commitment is one to self. Basically, giving yourself permission to learn as you go so there isn't so much pressure on whatever the task at hand is. It is similar to learning to walk, there are going to be times when you fall on the diaper but be glad it is there and get up again. No name calling, no judgment, just get up and try again. A lot of the times a baby will laugh when they fall. Wouldn't it be great if we could remember that humor when we fall on our proverbial diapers?

So, what is your current IT? What is staring you right in the awareness sector and you are pretending politely to not make eye contact with? I invite you to travel through the following chapters and try the one that jumps out at you when you read the title. Often, it is right in front of us and we aren't even aware we already know what direction to head. If, like in the example above, your it is how others annoy you, well perhaps you can look at each of the annoyances as a teacher to see what it is really about YOU that you aren't so fond of. Often when we point the finger at others it is really our own issues that we are trying to avoid. Try this the next time it comes up. It can be really exciting if you drop the judgment.

Come on, it will be fun, ok, maybe not the WHOLE thing but most of it will be enlightening, freeing and so empowering to meet you and really like who you are. I promise you are great, I know it already and we've just met.

Inner Truth

When one hears the words inner truth there can be a cringe that goes through the system. This is a reaction, I believe, that inner truth is harder to find than it really is. Of course, it is going to be different for every person as we are all very different souls but it still is something that is very accessible.

It is my desire that everyone would find this, whatever it is for them, and allow themselves to know that peace and the absolutely, amazing, wonderful feeling that comes from connection with self. This feeling, space, realization, whatever the adjective, is what sustains us. It keeps us striving for more and allows us to expand beyond where we are at any given moment. It is very much our personal gps system guiding us to that whole feeling that our soul knew and knows is possible for every being to achieve.

We are not meant to be stagnant. Every organism that is of this universe is constantly growing and raising its vibrational frequency. We all have a knowing that this is the exciting part of our journey. The constant desire for more. For some this will be in the context of stuff, for others it may be spiritual fulfillment, for others it may be cultivating a talent that comes naturally but they don't really understand. It really is of no matter where...