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Before You Can Help Others, Help Yourself
Several months ago, I heard Marianne Williamson speak at an event.
I asked her about the idea of combining spirituality with the business side of business. The legal, insurance, financial and tax parts of business.
Her response was “Do Your Work.”
At the time, I thought she meant that I needed to re-immerse myself in my own spiritual practice.
Looking back now with the benefit of all that has happened since then I realize that the work she was talking about was not what I thought at all.
It wasn’t about more meditation.
It’s All Falling …. Together
Several years ago, when I first discovered it was my purpose to shine the light, I was a lawyer who had just started my own law practice.
Shine the light?!? What the fuck am I supposed to do with that?”
So, I started reading.
One of the first books I read was by Neale Donald Walsch. Bringers of the Light.
On the first page, he writes “It is falling together, you know. It may not look like it, but it is. Usually when your life looks like it’s falling apart, it’s really falling together. Often, for the first time.”
What Is This Thing Called Freedom?
After I wrote my last post about my next book (which still makes me quite queasy to think about), I realized that there may be some question regarding what I mean when I talk about freedom.
So I thought it might help if I got a bit more specific.
The road to freedom I’ll write about isn’t for everyone. It can be a difficult path to travel. It requires giving up the bonds and beliefs and security blankets we’ve clung to our whole lives. The expectations and obligations that keep us in from being free.
I Couldn’t Take It Anymore
On Saturday morning, I woke up and felt like I simply couldn’t do it. I had hit my limit. I could not contemplate the reality of continuing to do everything I’ve been doing and have yet to do. It was overwhelming.
I rolled over in bed and said “Dave, I can’t do it. I can’t do this anymore.”
Then, I said, “I’ve been thinking about it and have to cut something out. I can’t do Dave and Alexis (the business).”
Four Years. Go.
The next four years are going to pass us by, just like the last four did and the four hundred before that.
But if they do without us doing something different on a mass level, things could get quite uncomfortable for our future generations.
Four Years – it’s long enough for us to make a difference and too short for us to lose focus.
Do you believe we can do it?
I do. It starts with you. And me. All of us.
A New Paradigm
For the 2nd time, I am three years into a million dollar business venture of my own creation and I am beginning to see a pattern. I am committed to living beyond patterns and conditioning, so now that the pattern has been noticed, I am committed to doing something different.
What did Einstein say? “Insanity is doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results.”
So here I am.
Exactly where I was just a couple of years ago in so many respects.
And yet so far away.
Don’t Settle & Don’t Give Up.
A lot of times when I write here, it’s to remind myself of the truth. This is one of those times.
Last year’s big lesson was “boundaries.” How to set them with an open heart. That’s the razor’s edge I’m talking about.
This year’s is shaping up to be “don’t settle” and it’s rocking my world at the deepest level.
Bringing up all sorts of stuff I’ve been trying really hard not to look at. For a long time.
I’ve settled a lot because I was scared and willing to take what came along or hang on to what I already had because that felt safer.
Can You Feel It?
My life is turning upside down. I’m on the razor’s edge of exhilarated and scared to death. And I freakin’ love it. Why would I love to live on the razor’s edge? Because …
We are here to feel.
Ten years ago I stopped feeling in the name of security and comfort. Once I woke up from the numbness, I swore I’d never be okay with that again.
I made a promise to myself. Numb will not be my way of being even when it feels like the safest way to be.
What Do You Do When You Are Unhappy?
Somehow, it seems as if we’ve all gotten this idea that if we are not satisfied, we can’t complain. If we complain, then we are complainers and that is bad. So, instead, we should hold in our complaints. Think them, fine. But, don’t say them.
For the longest time, I apologized for my high standards. Still do sometimes.
But lately, I’m coming to terms with those standards, accepting and embracing them. I have high standards. I am high maintenance. I value excellence in myself and others.
If You Love Something …
You’ve heard the saying, right?
If you love something, set it free. If it comes back to you, it’s yours.
God, I believe in that. Oh yes, down to the bottom of my toes, I believe in it.
I’ve even experienced it in my own life. A lot. 5 years ago, I set my husband free (and a whole house full of stuff I loved) and now 5 years later, it’s all back.
