{"id":899,"date":"2008-12-31T18:56:04","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T23:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=899"},"modified":"2008-12-31T18:56:04","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T23:56:04","slug":"synchronicity-gets-the-bills-paid-on-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/synchronicity-gets-the-bills-paid-on-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Synchronicity gets the bills paid on time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tuesday December 30, 2008
\nToday began very early. After my morning yoga and meditation, it quickly became very hectic.\u00a0 I keep one of those\u00a0daily flip calendars on my desk, you know the kind: about 7″ x 7″.\u00a0 I put my bill payment coupons in the calendar on the day I need to order payment, then each morning when I come in, I flip the calendar page to the new day and pay whatever needs to be paid.\u00a0 Although I have a lot of bills, I don\u2019t have much debt and it\u2019s fairly easy to keep everything current.\u00a0\u00a0I rarely use credit cards and am not a recreational shopper.\u00a0\u00a0Clients and advertisers pay at time of service, so\u00a0no one is ever past due.\u00a0 It keeps things simple.<\/p>\n

That is, it\u2019s simple when I remember to turn the calendar page every day *grin*\u00a0 Some days though, I feel I need an extra 12 hours to finish up, so I delay turning the calendar page until I absolutely have to.\u00a0 So this morning when I came into the office, I turned the page and had a bigger than usual stack of bills.\u00a0 In an ideal world, I would at that point just order payments sent and be done with it.\u00a0 But, like many other\u00a0sole proprietorships, what comes in each month also goes out each month.\u00a0 It used to be quite a juggle, but is rarely a concern now.\u00a0 Sixteen years later, I\u2019ve got the formula\u00a0down.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The key\u00a0is\u00a0simply to arrange my life so that I have money in the bank ahead of time to pay for purchases I make.\u00a0 And no problem, I typically do.
\nThis month I also had the quarterly installment property tax payments\u00a0on several parcels, and due to my flu\u00a0I\u2019d cancelled a week\u2019s worth of readings, which is how Andrea\u2019s bills get paid.\u00a0 So I began my process\u2026\u00a0 My process is to first list on a page all the Horizons bills due on the left and all the Andrea bills due on the right.\u00a0 I write the amount and due date for each as well.\u00a0 Once I know how much I have to pay out, I get that figure in my mind.<\/p>\n

Then I begin opening mail and logging payments\u00a0into the system, then I make up a deposit.\u00a0 I add the deposit amount in to the appropriate account and then reconcile my bank statements.\u00a0 That lets me know how much each account has.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I used to balance my checkbook first and get a balance and \u00a0THEN tally my bills up to be paid.\u00a0 But that way always left me with less cash than bills.\u00a0 I figured out if I tally up the amount I need first, then balance the checkbook, that gives me a real\u00a0strong desire and hopeful expectation that I will have exactly the right amount by the time I need it 20 minutes down the road.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s one reason I sometimes let checks\u00a0sit unopened on my desk, because I want to crank up my excitement about the unknown, and imagine they can contain thousands more than I anticipate.\u00a0 I like that realm of not knowing.\u00a0 It gives me a chance to do some serious visualizing and pre-paving.<\/p>\n

So my deposits are tallied up and added in, and they are within $108 of each other.\u00a0 Although that\u2019s cutting it close, I first think YAY!\u00a0 Then I remember some merchant fees for credit card transactions will hit any day for almost twice that, so I can\u2019t touch that money.\u00a0 I open all the mail on my desk and come up with a $61 deposit that I will drive in so it is posted today.\u00a0 Oh, I haven\u2019t had to\u00a0rush a deposit to the bank in years!\u00a0 It was a good reminder and a good experience.\u00a0 As I am driving out, I see my mail chick\u00a0and\u00a0wait to get the mail.\u00a0 A big check I was waiting for had arrived\u00a0– yay!\u00a0\u00a0 I ran inside and added it to the deposit, thinking: synchronicity.
\nSynchronicity.\u00a0 Yes, even before I knew I had the big check, I managed to get everything paid and even have\u00a0$108 extra.\u00a0\u00a0 I was down to the wire so to speak and, although I knew more was on the way, I did not have it in my actual hand yet\u2026<\/p>\n

As soon as I gave up my worried thought and\u00a0thought instead, \u201cmore dollars will be here in a few days or something else will be shown to me,\u201d\u00a0 that\u2019s when I reached the proper vibratory stance, the corresponding resonance, for the Universe to rendezvous me with the big check.\u00a0 I almost left the house 30 minutes earlier and kept getting delayed – divine intervention.
\nI left the house and headed for the post office first, since I am also sending out the first batch of bills for the February Horizons.\u00a0 To make my billing more manageable, I bill the big renewals the first day and the smaller amounts in the following days.\u00a0\u00a0I trained myself to do it that way, as a reminder that by the time the first payments come in, the bills will need to be paid.<\/p>\n

I used to pay my bills at the last minute because I was scrambing for the money; now if I\u00a0pay them at the last minute it\u2019s because I\u2019ve been too lazy to flip the calendar to the next day.<\/p>\n

At the post office,\u00a0I got 2 compliments on my\u00a0new red blouse!\u00a0 I always have fun at the post office.\u00a0 On to the bank for the deposit and the teller finds somehow a $100 check I\u2019d included but not logged in\u2026?\u00a0 Now the Universe was just playing with me!\u00a0\u00a0 Because of that extra $100 check I\u2019d overlooked – probably just stuck to another check –\u00a0even without the big check, I would have had the exact right amount I needed to cover the merchant fees.\u00a0 Once again the Universe was looking out for me – I had all I needed, but I didn\u2019t know it so I acted as though I did not have it.\u00a0 Hmmm, recurring lesson there for me, how about you?<\/p>\n

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\nThen I head on in to town to meet Fred Goodnight for\u00a0Vietnamese\u00a0soups at\u00a0 Pho Cali\u00a0\u00a0to discuss a project.\u00a0\u00a0 He tried the rice paper wrapped vegetarian spring rolls for the first time – dipped in fish sauce – yum.\u00a0 We talked about how much we love the big giant soups and how important water is to a healthy system.\u00a0 I\u2019m more intuitive when I\u2019m well hydrated and have deeper meditations.<\/p>\n

It was almost 5:00pm when we parted, and I headed east over the Eau Gallie Causeway to the one Beall\u2019s in town I had not yet gone to. I had an extra coupon and it was Monday, extra discount day!\u00a0 I didn\u2019t need more clothes but wanted to look at purses.\u00a0 I don\u2019t often carry a purse, preferring pockets,\u00a0so purses tend to last me a long time.\u00a0 But it was time if I could find one I liked.\u00a0 I like one big enough to carry a few notebooks,\u00a0my camera, my digital voice recorder\u00a0and a book or two.\u00a0 I like\u00a0lot of pockets inside, lots of zippered compartments; I like a long\u00a0shoulder strap.\u00a0 Yes, I know I am describing a briefcase.\u00a0 Old habits die hard\u2026
\nI found one I liked pretty quickly, then walked past some flatware and decided it was time to buy another set.\u00a0 I\u2019d already been thinking about it, since mine is missing some pieces.\u00a0 What I use now was given to me at my first wedding in 1970.\u00a0 So it was another successful shopping trip for fairly essential items.\u00a0 What began as an aggravating day ending up having been a great day.<\/p>\n

It was also a great reminder\u00a0that I have all I need, whether I know it or not.\u00a0 That the Universe is looking out for me and is constantly arranging people, circumstances and events to rendevzous with me in synchronistic fashion to bring me good stuff.\u00a0 It\u2019s as if – gosh – it is my Father\u2019s good pleasure to give me the Kingdom.<\/p>\n

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