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11. Day 13: It’s What Love Would Do
I have a dear and good friend who is my soul’s mirror, my holy witness and agitator without whom I would never see wholly. This one is a gift beyond measure (and you know I, now, truly adore and am uplifted by measure). I have the joy and privilege of being able to be my whole, unadulterated, untidy, unwitting self when we are together. I find this One in all I meet…….if I but allow it. We learn how to love and be loved limitedly one step, hug and glance at a time until we can bear to allow and entertain the true...
read more11. Day 12: Awareness By-The-Measure
I finally came across the best reason I have ever heard for measuring goals. I seem to be one of those people who equate measuring with judging. It might have stemmed from always being the last person picked for the team for athletic pursuits and the first person picked to lead an academic squad or entertainment committee. Measuring, in my mind, must inevitably lead to judging something better or worse, less or more, good or bad. So I have always resisted measuring of any kind. When the recipe calls for a half a cup of cheese I just...
read more11. Day 11: Considerations, Fears & Roadblocks
I read a great way to describe thoughts in Jack Canfield’s book yesterday. He describes these things as just “part of the process of success”. He says look out for these things, they will happen: considerations, fears and roadblocks. Considerations: are thoughts that tell you that you can’t or shouldn’t do something. It might look like “My wife’ll kill me”, “I don’t want to get up two hours earlier” “It’s too hard”, “My territory is maxed...
read more11. Day 10: Listening To My Heart’s Desire
Here’s the thing, there is nothing wrong with success and there is nothing wrong with me. But when you put the two together I fall apart. I get so off beat and try too hard and forget to listen to my heart because I am reading my to do list or the 30 things I want to do/30 things I want to have/30 things I want to be list. It is like studying a textbook about walking every time I want to take a walk. I must have to come to success in my own way. Sure, I can use advice, idea’s and disciplines from someone who has already done...
read more11. Day 9: What I Learned About Success From My Landscaper
I learned a great lesson about success from Fransisco, the landscaper and drain guru who is working to solve a big drainage issue we are having. For the last couple of years (maybe longer) when it rains we have a little water seep into our guesthouse between the low foundation of a small bathroom added on in the sixty’s and the main concrete slab of the guesthouse itself. In the beginning it was just enough to put a towel down to soak up, as if you had spilled a glass of water. Over time it very gradually got worse. But then we...
read more11. Day 8: Extreme Love Uses It All
I am experiencing the law of attraction in a most helpful manner. Since I have begun my month of extending love to the fear of success people are literally coming out of the woodwork to help, assist, offer a new perspective and cheer me on with great suggestions. I have received videos, articles, memes that have truly helped me on my journey to opening to how success is but another part of me, not separate from me. It is as if success itself, even the idea of it, is a light shining into my depths to show me my tight or dark places...
read more11. Day 7: 10 Things I Love About Me
One of the benefits of writing a daily blog is that I don’t need to put so much pressure on myself over the content/value/importance of each and every post. This is eerily mimicking daily life. If I notice my life as a whole, any single day is just a part of something whole and beautiful and powerful. When I look at the blog as a whole, it (and by association the writer, um, that’s me) is already a huge success. (Is this what I was really afraid of? Finding out I am already a success???). I showed up every day. Even the two...
read more11. Day 6: Success, A Bedtime Story
Last night I was in bed by 8 o’clock. I was knackered after a long but fabulous day. We used a new venue for our quarterly director meeting which meant getting there early, working out quirks, setting up tables and chairs, finding outlets, figuring out how a new projector works etc. Then a full energy meeting with a tremendous team. Getting together with our team is one of my favorite things to do. I get so much (learn, intuit, delight in) from them I have to remember that we are also here to work. At the end of the day my husband...
read more11. Day 5: The Wealth You Seek
Yesterday I was feeling rather stumped by this month of extending love to success. I feel it doing a work within me that I cannot actually see yet. I feel this will bubble up into some form of action or practice but right now I am content with just being in the presence of my thoughts about success without ignoring, organizing or fleeing. This morning this thought came to me: The fear that chose me will know what to do; I need but abide in the Love that I AM. I sat for a long time in meditation just enjoying the presence of quiet and...
read more11. Day 4: Success: A Love Letter
Dearest Success, I have long tried to outrun you for fear of what it might mean if you caught up with me. I felt sure you would require something that I did not have to give. Would it be a talent I didn’t possess? Or that I missed the cue of what to do next? Or would it be the embarrassment of not knowing what to say when I received the requisite honors or adulation. Whatever it is that I have avoided in you I sincerely apologize for. It seems both churlish and clueless to avoid something that could make my days more interesting,...
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