I wrote on Facebook yesterday:  “Yay, I just had an early meeting cancel, I’m going for a walk!”   I thought I’d pay bills before I left, so I signed into online banking.   I pulled up my accounts and was about to go to Bill Pay when I refreshed the screen and saw they’d just recorded an overdraft protection and there was a big minus amount in my personal account.  I’m good about staying on top of my banking, so I quickly went thru my check register alongside the statement and found I’d paid a 4 figure bill out of the wrong account.  Instead of my walk, I got to spend the morning transferring funds, running charges, opening mail, making up a deposit and running to the bank.  That’ll teach me to pay attention. Or to keep an extra few thousand in each account just in case.

I thought how perfectly the day unfolded.  I’d scheduled an 8:00am meeting with Wayne Wirs and I woke up thinking what a nice day to be outside.  I was glad we’d scheduled to meet at a local park – my favorite office.  As it turned out, I had an email waiting from Wayne that we’d have to reschedule, so I decided to go to the park myself.

Had I met with Wayne Wirs as scheduled, I’d have missed seeing the overdraft protection notice come on the screen as I was paying bills.  Since Wayne freed my time up, I had the morning available to take care of my big goof right away.  I love how that happens.  Check out his article in the July 2011 Horizons Magazine.

A friend wrote, “Why did you attract that?”  I laughed and answered, “LOL  I love you, you always know the question is WHY and not how. I know HOW I did it: I was vibing in a scattered place, which is not the place to vibe if I’m doing serious dollar transactions. WHY I did it is likely to remind me to be more mindful. I caught it before I got hit with any charges, but it’s a big lesson all the same.

Yes, I’d been scattered when paying bills last time and yes, I knew better.  But I know when things like this happen, there will be a synchronistic chain of events that helps make it all better pretty quickly.  I always enjoy reviewing in retrospect exactly what played out.  It reinforces for me that I live a pretty magical life.

Is my life magical and so I believe it, or do I just think it will be magical and it is?  Either way, I win.

Andrea