Jeff Brown
http://soulshaping.com
It is always good to remember that we have all the healing tools we need inside of us. For every wound, there is a healing path. That is not to say that we don’t need support, but if we can just give ourselves permission to move the darkness out, more light will come in to fill the empty space. We can do 1,000 workshops and read another 1,000 books, but if we don’t make the courageous decision to let go of what we carry, we won’t move an inch. Jeff Brown
It is so true, when you are on the right path doing what you were meant to do, and alongside the people you were meant to be with, everything flows smoothly and easily and effortlessly. I used to believe there was virtue in the suffering. That’s when I wanted to justify staying in a situation I hadn’t received the lesson from yet. Troubles come to pass, they don’t stay for long when you’re doing what you’re meant to do.
“For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn’t understand growth, it would look like complete destruction.”
Cynthia Occelli
My desk until today!
Finally! All the bookkeeping is done! I’ve literally not been caught up with it in, well, years. One problem is I make notes when I speak to people about an ad, then I enter the notes into my bookkeeping program so when we speak again, I can recall the conversation. An old paralegal habit. Since I speak to a lot of people, I end up with a lot of filing that I never get to. Until now. Now it’s done! I am self employed. I admit to goofing off a good part of many days, but when I work, I work. Last year I got motivated to pay down some debt and right afterward met someone I wanted to make time for. I’m lucky he’s a workaholic like me, and that he lives a block away. It’s a good fit. I feel blessed. I was inspired by him being debt free. I set a goal of paying off my car and a few other things by the end of the year and am real excited I’ve begun doing that. Being excited about it makes it happen faster. Having the bookkeeping off my desk gives me room to breathe. Room to breathe means room to play!
I look at friends around me who are living lives of less than stellar integrity, who haven’t yet learned the lessons I’ve learned. All too often I think I need to fix them. Now I have come to recognize that by identifying their ignorance, this automatically places me in service to them. You, too. I know it’s not my place to judge what God allows another person to do or even to get away with.
Anyone you are smarter than, or you have more knowledge than, that places you in service to them. That does not enslave them to you.
I see it as my honor to have the chance to practice patience, humility and generosity of spirit. To do otherwise simply means I’ve forgotten. Sometimes I forget. Then I remember again. It’s a process.
The spin will make ya dizzy
Some friends are hurting. They are threatening to sue someone and weave stories to convince themselves it’s okay. They don’t get that whatever it is, it’s okay. Their story is valid, no reason to spin tales. The magic balm is in the truth. I saw it happen. I said, “You can reframe it all you want but you purposely lied and got caught. If you’d stop bringing it up and trying to prove you weren’t lying, the matter would be closed by now. Drop it. Stop creating more karma for yourself.” They remind me of a personal situation where someone keeps forgetting my ex and I were apart four months before she came on the scene. She likes her version so she can keep mentioning me. It’s okay, let her have poetic license, but the truth is the better story. Continue reading
You know what? If you think you can’t make money doing what you know now how to do, and with the people you now know, you have, in the words of Don Juan DeMarco a limited and uncreative way of looking at the situation. If you really grokked how much power you have right now, you’d flip. And yes, this applies even if you’re “just” a stay at home mom raising her kids.
Every true lover knows that the moment of greatest satisfaction comes when ecstasy is long over and he beholds before him the flower which has blossomed beneath his touch.
Don Juan DeMarco
The gardener knows his job is to tend to the toil and dirty work and help the seedlings grow into flower and fruit. No matter that the fruit will grace the table of another and he gets not one sweet bite. The gardener’s job is to prepare and maintain the space to grow and bloom. His satisfaction comes in knowing others have been fed by what he’s made it a daily spiritual practice to provide and tend, and it is his supreme honor to do so.
I’ve been talking to two “sisters-in-law” as we resolve legal matters involving all of us. I call them sisters-in-law but they are really current wives of former husbands. I learned early on that when my ex has a new wife, she’s not my competition, she’s my sister. Staying conscious keeps us all one big happy family. After a particularly long day, we laughed at supper over our situation, knowing that for 3 others, untangling real estate and dollars might be a nightmare, but for us it’s business as usual: “She” is “me.” Have respect. Do what I’d want done to me. Do what I want returned to me. Period. It’s how we’ve done it for 28 years. Our husbands would be proud. Continue reading