A client asked me how to get bodies in the chairs at her event so she’d have a better chance of selling her products and services. I told her that’s the hard way to do it. You don’t want 200 people to attend an event if only 10 are going to buy. Your market is the 10 who really want it. Remember that the next time you look out into your audience of 10. And if you don’t think you can make an honest and lucrative living with just 10 clients, then you just have short vision. It’s not a numbers game; it’s a consciousness game.

Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. Carl Jung

It is a waste of our energies to respond to the provocations of those who are moved by intense insecurities. Vrinda Puja

Sleep + gardening + work = life is good! It’s been a fun and productive week of final layout for the June Horizons Magazine, as well as lots of time off for gardening breaks as I put in the hanging herb and veggie garden.  At first light, I went around to all the saplings, bending them into the shapes I’d like them to grow in. I did a surprise one on the chinese tallow for the mail chick out by the mailbox. I showed it to her when she came by: I’d trimmed it so the branches wouldn’t grow in her direction, and I fanned the three trunks out for her, like a wave.  She laughed.  She said her mangos and avocados never give fruit and I suggested she put a slow dripline on them overnight to wake them up.  My plants all respond like crazy to more water.  I’ve been doing my yoga on the back porch so I can watch the mama cardinal sit on her nest.  It’s better than tv.

Disguised as the first gardenia of 2013, the Beloved bloomed for me today. His scent is intoxicating and draws me near for a snuffle, the petals soft against my nose. I left a slow drip line on him all night long. He bloomed in appreciation and gratitude.