Oblivious to the Obvious?

You take on what’s right in front of you. 
You want to do the best you can with the opportunities that you have. 
Don Shula

Several years ago, I worked with a woman that was very good at buying objects, refurbishing them, and reselling them. In fact, she had made a great deal of money doing it.

She came to me because she had just been fired from her job. She had never been fired from a job. She had not been at the job long, and did not like the job, but was still upset that this had occurred. She had over her life a series of jobs at which she was under-earning.

When I asked her why she didn’t take her refurbishing business full-time, there was a stunned silence. Her response was that she just thought she was supposed to have a regular 9 to 5 job with benefits. She had been taught that growing up, and had not seriously considered that she could do anything different. Especially not do what she loved, even though she was already making very good money at it. Seems so obvious, doesn’t it?

Yet, haven’t we all done that? Missed the obvious? Only to be stunned when someone points it out to us. Slow down, step back, take stock. What is before you? Breathe. What have you missed? Do it again.

Slow down, step back, take stock. What is before you? Breathe. What have you missed? Do it again.

Slow down, step back, take stock. What is before you? Breathe. What have you missed? Do it again.

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Not Most Folks!

You can worry about most people all day but I can
promise you they are not worried about you.  Almost all growth that’s
available to you exists when you aren’t most people and when
you work hard to appeal to folks that are not most people.
Seth Godin

Have you ever had something that you wanted to do and you were very excited about it? Then you told people about it and you received pained looks, panicked expressions, head shakes, oh no, and questions such as, “Why would you want to do that?” And your excitement went flat, your balloon was flattened, the wind beneath your wings disappeared?

I was born loving horses. I wanted to ride, train, and breed horses, and it was not a career choice my parents were thrilled about me pursing… a vet, a doctor, an attorney, a business owner… yes, but a horse trainer. Well it wasn’t something they thought I could do and support myself.

Can anyone relate? I am sure some of you can.

What I didn’t know then is that growth occurs when we don’t listen to most people. Growth occurs when we go deep inside, take a step, find our path, and live true to it. Growth stops when we fail to trust our own journey, and listen to the well-meaning but un-supportive and often bad advice of others.

Find people that support that path. Find people that want to join the journey, and serve them.

Who supports your path? Do you? Who else?

Need support? Can’t find your path? Let’s talk.

And remember don’t be most people!

Stop Toe Dipping, Take the Plunge!

One hot AZ morning this week the beautiful blue pool was calling to me. As I sat on the edge of the pool and did some toe dipping the water felt cool and refreshing. The water felt great on my feet, ankles, and calves yet the rest of me baked in the sun. So another step deeper was needed, and “Oh,” it was a bit cooler but within less than a minute it felt good as my knees bobbed just below the surface, and my legs quickly adjusted to the new temperature. Despite the heat I was hesitant to take the next step. This step was much deeper, over my waist. “Did I want to cool off that badly?” “Maybe I should get out now!” Although that seemed a bit foolish since the sun was hot, and the pool refreshing, and well, I was half in all ready. I mean didn’t that defeat the idea of cooling off in the pool getting out while still half baked? And who knew how many chances I would get to enjoy this pool. So I took the plunge and for a moment I did regret taking that next step, “Oh, it was cold!” Yet the strangest thing happened. In a few moments I adjusted to it. Wow! Interesting! Next I decided to do some edge testing so I began to wade slowly toward the deep end, but that became almost torturous, so I decided to take the plunge. I held my breath and dropped to the bottom, and “Ah,” it was cold, but I survived, and well, you guessed it, in a few seconds I was refreshed! The water felt great! Viola, I had created a refreshing reality!

As I noted my approach to adapting to the temperature of the pool I observed the similarities with life. Each step into the refreshing pool created a challenge, a decision, to go back, stay put, or move forward. Each moved forward required facing the uncomfortable certainty of change, the adaptation to the change, and the joy of having reached this new place. The toe dipping, and knee bobbing were easy, and fun but as I moved toward the moment of totally being cooled and refreshed the biggest challenge came as I grew closest to realizing my momentary vision of being refreshed because the edge testing became torturous, and I had to choose, once and for all to take the plunge, or back away from the dream of that cool refreshing water.

Consider your life, your relationships, your work, your children, your education, your dreams, where are you toe dipping, knee bobbing, half baked, or edge testing? Where are you ready to take the plunge?

What Legacy will You Leave?

 That is your legacy on this Earth when you leave this Earth:

how many hearts you touched.

Patti Davis

Legacy is in one sense the concrete things you leave behind. Yet legacy is far more than things, legacy is the quality of all the energy you leave behind. Will it be positive or negative? Will it be love or fear? Will it build up or tear down? Will it heal or harm? What will you leave behind? Will you leave the world better than you found it?

Creating Your Desires

All actions result from thought so it is thoughts that matter.
Sai Baba

 

We are our thoughts. Our thoughts change our biochemistry so our thinking creates who we are becoming.

The thoughts we have about ourselves have the most impact. These thoughts influence how we treat ourselves, and in turn that teaches others how to treat us. Thoughts are an informational energy field. This intelligent power results from trillions of messenger molecules that inform each of our cells precisely how to function, thus our positive thoughts create positive energy, and vice versa.

So the wonderful news is that we always have a choice about what we think, when we think, whether we think, or whether we don’t. So we can consciously choose our thoughts, which allows us the ability to control our lives from the inside out. Given this reality we can create anything we desire.

Are your thoughts aligned with what you would like to create today?