Are you ready to plan your expenses, savings, investments and debt repayment with more ease, fun and clarity?? Is it TIME to set INTENTION with your PERSONAL and BUSINESS VISION and learn your style of manifesting?!

The Level II: Map of Intention process combines life visioning and core values with practical budgeting , to create an experience of financial clarity and empowerment for the participants.

We are not teaching you to diet, we are teaching you a process - strategy called, MAP OF INTENTION. We help you bring mindfulness to your weekly, monthly, yearly: Vision, Values, Intentions, Goals and your Live Numbers.

LEVEL II: MAP OF INTENTION- VISION BUDGET 2008: FOR INDIVIDUALS & COUPLES

• 8 Week TELE-COURSE with Joetta Johnson
• Date: Tuesdays, January 22 - March 11
• Time: 5:30 - 7:00 p.m. (PT)
• Location: Tele-Course (Once registered, you will receive dial-in)

In our newsletters, we have been exploring each of the Eleven Elements that make Conscious Bookkeeping, conscious.

The 5th Element was in the pipeline for January but we are going to skip over it and go straight to the 6th - simply because "Intention" so perfectly aligns with our upcoming classes and with the themes of the New Year. (don't worry, we'll come back to the 5th Element in February)

This month we look at "Intention" as a means of building goals for yourself right into your bookkeeping system. In Conscious Bookkeeping, this process is called creating a "Map of Intention," which is similar to a creating a "budget", yet it adds a profound sense of dimension to an otherwise flat process.

"Intention" can be a vague word in today's vernacular. Some people think of it as a "new agey" term to describe desires, hopes and wishes. By an "intentional "bookkeeping system we mean; deliberate, on-purpose, planned, premeditated, calculated, not by accident.

An "intentional" community, is a group of like-minded people who come together in a living arrangement or for some other goal - centered around specific values. Similarly, the Map of Intention process deliberately aligns our budgetary choices around the principles that are most precious to us and around the future we envision for ourselves and for our families.

Imagine how congruent you would feel if you earned, saved, invested and spent your money exclusively or at least predominantly in ways which reflect who you want to be in the world? Can you hand your bank statement over to a stranger to describe who you think you are? If not, maybe placing some time and energy on the intentional quality of your relationship to money is what's needed at this time in your life.
What is so wonderful about placing our focus on intention at this time of year is that we are joining up with people all around the planet who are engaged in a similar process of establishing New Year's Resolutions. There is a particular opportunity to take advantage of the momentum we create together now at the beginning of 2008. Please consider taking advantage of our class schedule that can support you to go deeply into your intentions for this year.

"Mary (not her real name) was anxious. She and her husband had separated, and now she was going to have to manage her own money for the first time in her life. In all her years of marriage, she had never paid a bill or learned to balance a checkbook - and she had a history of emotional spending. She knew she needed help, but she had no clue where to start. When Bari Tessler, founder of the San Francisco-based financial counseling company Conscious Bookkeeping, learned about Mary after one of her firm's seminars, she recommended some private counseling sessions with a member of her company. After nine months of hard work, Mary, who is in her mid-50s, went from having zero money skills to skillfully managing her checkbook. Tessler suggests that Mary is not all that unusual."

"Money is a dead giveaway of what is important in anyone's life. What do your bank statement and credit card statements say about you? I was working with one family when I asked the father if he loved his son. He said of course he did. I told him he didn't. I told him he loved his cigarettes more than he loved his son because he spent more on his cigarettes than he did making sure his son had a secure future. I then took his cigarettes from him, threw them on the floor, and stomped them flat with my cowboy boot. He was pissed! I loved it. And I was right. It doesn't matter what you say is important to you, your actions will always tell the truth. When you follow the money, you know what someone really loves... Make a list of what is important to you. Write down everything that really matters to you... Get your bank statement and your credit card statements and write down where you spend your money. Then you will know what is really important to you."

ARE YOUR 2008 INTENTIONS FOR BOTH HEALTHY BODY AND HEALTHY FINANCES?!!

Joetta Marie Johnson is thrilled to be collaborating with Amy Rachelle, a Tranformation Cleanse Coach, in the creation of HEALTH AND WEALTH - A 33 Day INTENSIVE FOR HEALTH AND FINANCIAL WELLNESS.

The intention for this program is that you will be renewed and rejuvenated in health through a 33 day cleansing process for the body, while finding greater integrity and intentionality in your finances.

• TELE-COURSE
• Dates: January 20th - February 18th
• Time: SEE WEBSITE FOR EXACT SCHEDULE
• Dial in: Once registered we will send info.

Interested in finding out more about our work? Join Bari for a complimentary introduction to Conscious Bookkeeping


Date: Monday, Jan. 14th
Time: 4- 5:30 pm (PT)
Dial In: 1-218-936-1600 Password: 26269

Jesse & Sharla of Rejuvenate Training are a husband and wife team.

They teach the holistic community how to sell from the heart and create powerful programs and products to fill out consulting/therapy practices! They are an exceptional model on how to do this

They offer a full scholarship weekend (Free) to check them out. Joetta received huge value from the weekend.

( ~ WE WILL BE LAUNCHING OUR NEW PROGRAMS, BASED ON WHAT WE LEARNED, IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS ~)

They model heart selling and 'selling' is both intimidating to our community and so very needed to help us all succeed with our wonderful work in the world! They will be promoting their other programs during the weekend, which cover a wide range of fees. Watch closely how they do it and receive what works and leave what doesn't.

Please let us know what your questions are and how we can support you. And, let us know if you would prefer to do this work privately with one of our Financial Therapists, Financial Coaches or Bookkeeping Trainers. We offer these services over the phone and live in the Bay Area, CA and Boulder, CO for individuals, couples, sole-props and small business. .

We are here to support you on this journey!

Bari Tessler & Joetta Johnson - Co-Directors
Conscious Bookkeeping: A Team of Financial Therapists, Financial Coaches and Bookkeeping Trainers!