There is plenty of comfort food, services, and products like the Snuggie out there.  My MO used to be to go for the premium chocolates.  But recently I found a cheaper and more effective way of getting back centered.  It's tapping into the powers of Clairvoyant Cherokee Billie.  Like the moniker indicates, she is Native American.  And, most recently, thanks to her insight I moved from being terrified that I cut loose a client to bold and successful marketing moves to land new accounts.

Making use of psychics -that broad umbrella term for those who leverage mystical tools to calm our angst and unleash our abilities - is not new for me.  Fourteen years ago my sister Anne Murga treated me to tarot reading in Salem, Massachusetts for my birthday.  I was all ears. 

I had just started a new job and was eager to check out with whatever how that was going to play out.  The female reader, a witch, said it was a no-go.  Very soon I would be opening my own communications boutique specializing in ghostwriting books.  That's what happened.  Did I make it happen or allow it to happen?  I don't bother with causality issues.  I want inner tranquility as well as a few wise words to hang onto.

Getting in touch with Cherokee Billie, a clairvoyant, was what was new.  I had done the usual stuff to get on the other side of my 80/20 Pareto decision [80 percent of our troubles come for 20 percent of our clients so get rid of that 20 percent].  That included Godiva chocolate, a long drive, and calling two plain-vanilla psychics.  I remained a mess.

On the first page of google, I found Cherokee Billie's website.  It said $1 a minute.  I figured that was a bait and switch.  But I was uncomfortable enough to check it out. It wasn't a bait and switch.  I booked 30 minutes and wound up consulting with this clairvoyant for lots longer.

What were the outcomes?  Here are the major ones:

• The problem was defined as fear.  With a diagnosis, I could apply the treatment.  After all, I have almost 30 years of 12-step programs and a decade of Buddhism under my belt.  The fastest route to driving away fear is to surrender to the feeling and ask some greater power for help with it.

• The wisdom not to add to the transition with piling on more change.  I put other plans such as considering a relocation to another state on-hold.

• The ball was in my court to develop new business.  Only I could do it.  I did do it.

• Irrelevant was the weighty matter how the client would fare without my brilliant assistance.  What was relevant was how I was going to keep making a buck.

A good reading does the trick, at least for a while.  I won't be contacting Cherokee Billie for a while.  But those who want to try it, she can be reached at 866-563-3997, info@cherokeebillie.com, or http://www.cherokeebillie.com.  The service takes credit cards and Paypal.