So how has your week worked out for you? I have had a very revealing week. I have realized that I was harboring habits that were keeping me stuck in a few places! Habits that were not allowing me to achieve things I have had on my vision boards for years. These nasty little nippers have been hanging out in the back of my mind since Junior High and it was time to say goodbye to fear of judgement and fear of rejection and a whole bucket full of fears. All of which were fears that are basically fears of not “people pleasing” instead of handling things like an adult and saying no when nessasary and yes to me for a change. I think women in particular have a real problem here. I know some men who never say no but most of the men I know were taught early to take care of themselves and thier loved ones at home first then add things to work with after that. There is something to be said for that. Lesson learned.Well time for lesson two.
We spoke a bit before the New BasicMissions was revealed about our vision boards. Those handy tools that allow us not only to know what we want but keep the vision buried deep within our frontal lobe. It is so important not to get side tracked. Have you ever sown a seed for a garden in a dixie cup? When you place that seed in the soil it takes days of watching it and praying over it for the first little sprig of green to show up. Then you take your precious little seedling and transplant it into your garden. You mark the spot where you planted it with a nice little wooden stake and write on the stake “Sweet Peas” as time goes on your little seedling shoots up and you also begin to see other greenry around it; little weeds that may choke your little seedling to death! We have to pull those weeds and keep the soil watered and feed so that soon we have beautiful fragrant flowers to put on the dinner table.
Life is just like that little seedling. If you don’t watch out the weeds in your world will choke out your dreams. Fortunately tending dreams and goals is also SOUL TENDING. As you take care to make sure your life follows the paths you have chosen the mean side of reality pops up. Then we find ourselves far from our vision board wondering why our dreams are not working out. When all along the universe is giving you the opportunity to weed your little garden. Negative things that happen are just learning experiences. Take them learn from them then delete. Boom you have weeded your garden. Are you looking for a job that accentuates your skills the job of your dreams? As you read this you are getting ready to go to work in an unrelated field. Well here is your chance to change your path. By all means do not quit your job. But apply in your off time for a position in the new field. Begin to make a buisness plan if you want to start your own buisness and take steps to weed your garden until it looks like the life on the vision board.
Duncan and I have a great deal of experience with down time. Duncan spends about 90% of his life in bed. His disease has progressed to a point that he has to work at his life’s journey in a different way. Are you disabled but dream of making jewelry and selling it. Well down time when your not feeling like you have been beaten to death can be turned into design time. Duncan writes his books when he cannot get up and by just making that mental leap that being in bed is not the end of his journey just a different place to see the view; changed the way he felt about himself. He has spent the better part of his life being uber active. He was a special ops troop then an aeronautical engineer and then a vp for a huge areospace firm.. In all of these jobs the one thing they had in common was he was always on the go. So life from a king size bed is a stark slap in the face to his dreams. So he re-wrote his dreams. We all have challenges but we can tend our universe in ways there were never possible before. The world is full of sucessful entrepanuers who use the internet to make thier living. Well or sick they can make thier dreams come true. And so can you. There is really no obstacle that our minds and spirits cannot overcome if we try. Only apathy will kill your dreams. Not trying is failure. The one thing all sucessful people have in common no matter what they do is they fail a lot!!! They spend more time flat on their ass than anyone would imagine. They just get up and make it work. Try again. Weed out what failed and learn from it that way the failing is a learning point if you are positive you know that the experience was valuable because you won’t do that again.
Now once you have the life you want firmly established you have to continually feed and weed your garden. Where do you garner inspirtation. What feeds your soul. If you constantly give out energy to a job or your loved ones you must be fed . Every action has an equal but opposite reaction. Energy spent means your tank is low you must fuel up or you will end up at the back of the line wondering why your needs have not been met.
I think I go to the market every day. For some reason I never get what is needed all in one fail swoop. Probley because we eat a raw diet and fresh food needs to be fresh. Do you know what I see most often there?? No it is not the veggies, it is exhausted and spent women trying to find dinner supplies! And they are miserable, grouchy, slapping kids and huffing and puffin’. Thier hair is not fixed, there clothes are sloppy and undone and everything about their huffiness screams ” I have given it all for my family!” But if you can show the world you have nothing left to give while at a market exactly “what” do you have left? I am working on the idea here that you put you best face forward in public. It frightens me to hear women say the last time I had a minute to myself was in the bathroom and the kids come in there. Well somethings are inevitable and poo free time if you are a busy Mom may be one of them The point is that most of these women are saying they never take any re-fueling time ever!!!.I know I can be blamed for my mother’s constipation; as a child my sister and I never left her alone. One thing I did learn from my beautiful mother was to tend my garden. Take time to care for myself. Don’t give everything a way! Being a martyr is not the way to make you or your family happy and sucessful. So weed folks. As you remove the obsticles from your life that don’t feed you or your dreams, the universe will open doors for you that do.
This is a long lesson..but it is so important. If I want to see my dreams come true working towards them daily means. Working… WORKING. It will not be easy.. just like gardening to reap the rewards of fresh fruits and flowers on a lovely table we have to plant, weed, feed and take care of the garden then we have the chores.. ironing the tablecloth and polishing the silver. But the result is having a meal that satisfies all the senses and feeds your soul as well as you belly.
I tease my mother because we have been very fortunate and in the hard years she has said there is never a reason not to polish the silver and have decent meal. I think that more than the actual work that we did to make the meal and the table beautiful the point was….no matter how hard things are make a time that is beautiful for yourself. Care about how things look, care for you things but use them, don’t let your talents gather dust.
As we learn to take our talents and put them to good use you will find that God was waiting all along for you to take the most unlikely talent and make your life rich with it. Abundance is all the holy books from all religons preach.. abundance of love to each other, abundance of joy and abudance of needs met. God only asks us to go for the brass ring not to settle. I have met so many people in my life who where so talented. Picasso was a dime a dozen to these folks. But for some reason they opted out of using thier talents. Maybe someone told them they would starve to death if they followed thier dreams who knows. But if you know in your gut you could be__________ if you just did ______. The please do it. We cannot reap if we do not plant the seeds.
So seed, weed and grow! I cannot wait to hear about your growth. You are all in our thoughts and prayers.
Manifesting Mojo,
Callie