What if the thing you decided was your life's purpose was the thing used to make sure it would hide the true greatness of you?
What if you have been so dissappointed on disheartened with certain areas of your life because you have been following a purpose that was not yours, a lie...a life that has nothing to do with our true desired purpose?
Would you have to acknowlege you are far greater than you thought you were and far greater than you have been willing to be?
Monday, February 25, 2008
Friday, February 8, 2008
Will Extrapolation Really Make You Go Blind?
What separates mavericks like Richard Branson, Ian Schrager or Jay Abraham from the rest of the pack? Do they have superpowers that we mere mortals can only dream of? Extra appendages? A genetic mutation? More than 24 hrs in their day? Born under the right sign? What is it?
I say two things...that really boil down to one. First, they are masters of extrapolation. And the good news? With diligent practice and a little inspiration, you can master it too!
So what is Extrapolation, you ask? Sounds like it could be fun...
The dictionary defines : to estimate to values outside the known range.
OK so what is that? To create outside of this reality.... To not rely on past successes or failures to determine your future.... Being willing to let go of everything and start over.... To be controversial.... To look at things that no one has ever done and not ask how? but why not?... To always be in the question. What if the moment we think we have the answer, have it all figured out...what if that is the moment we stop creating and things begin to decay?
Do you ever have a day that seems just magic? You need to make a certain contact and you happen to go for coffee and sit right beside the person who can get your foot in the door. There is horrible traffic and bad weather and right when you need it everything just clears up. Maybe you have required money and out of the blue someone calls who owes you money that you completely forgot about. I seem to live my life there when I get out of my own way!
For weeks I had been trying to figure out how to get in with a particular company whose amazing reputation would help my new project immensly just to be associated with them. I had researched, made a few phone calls, but nothing. I was on a flight from Savannah, Ga to NYC and bummed because I didn't get my own row. I began to chat with the woman beside me, just small talk, as you do ...Where are you from? What do you do?....etc....Well, I was also on the look out for a graphic design person. Guess what she did? Right, graphic design...but that is not the even the exciting part. She was freelancing for this exact company...down here...in the middle of nowhere.......What? How is that possible? I thought. Turns out the owners have a beach home here and love it so much they opened a small corp headquarters on this little island where I thought I was hibernating. What are the odds?? How did I get so lucky?
Do things ever just happen to us? Or are we in a constant state of creation whether we acknowlege it or not? What is this place called "the Zone" and how do we get there? Exactly how does one create out of thin air? What awareness do we have to have in order to know which seat to sit in, when not to be in the office? the right investment to make? when it is time to cut and run? what energies are needed for a project to come to fruition with ease? even who not to partner with, in business or in bed for that matter? How much awareness have we shut down not to know these things? How many choices have we made that we knew somewhere when we made them that they were wrong? or were only right for that moment and not forever? .....What if we all still didn't talk to strangers? ate everything on our plate whether we liked it or not? and thought 'down there' was a dirty place?
Hopefully you are over those choices and decisions! But that is how we live our lives in some aspects. Still abiding by rules or decisions or judgements that are just about as silly and useless, if not even detrimental! What if we only lived by our own rules of what feels right to us? What if that is the difference between us and massive success? Would Richard Branson follow how everybody else does business? If he did where would he be today? Would Ian Schrager worry about protocol in the hotel industry? Or have they amassed fortunes creating things that the world has never seen?
Where do you get your brilliance? I know it is in there. It is palpable. I can feel it just waiting for you to invite it to burst into being. How long has it been since you dared to let yourself go there? What inspires you? Where do you go?
Maybe it is during a long hot shower....maybe while driving 95+mph down the freeway.... or perhaps curled up with a mocha on a lazy Sunday morning…….. Where is your sweet spot? What gets your creatives juices flowing?
What if you lived in that space?
I say two things...that really boil down to one. First, they are masters of extrapolation. And the good news? With diligent practice and a little inspiration, you can master it too!
So what is Extrapolation, you ask? Sounds like it could be fun...
The dictionary defines : to estimate to values outside the known range.
OK so what is that? To create outside of this reality.... To not rely on past successes or failures to determine your future.... Being willing to let go of everything and start over.... To be controversial.... To look at things that no one has ever done and not ask how? but why not?... To always be in the question. What if the moment we think we have the answer, have it all figured out...what if that is the moment we stop creating and things begin to decay?
Do you ever have a day that seems just magic? You need to make a certain contact and you happen to go for coffee and sit right beside the person who can get your foot in the door. There is horrible traffic and bad weather and right when you need it everything just clears up. Maybe you have required money and out of the blue someone calls who owes you money that you completely forgot about. I seem to live my life there when I get out of my own way!
For weeks I had been trying to figure out how to get in with a particular company whose amazing reputation would help my new project immensly just to be associated with them. I had researched, made a few phone calls, but nothing. I was on a flight from Savannah, Ga to NYC and bummed because I didn't get my own row. I began to chat with the woman beside me, just small talk, as you do ...Where are you from? What do you do?....etc....Well, I was also on the look out for a graphic design person. Guess what she did? Right, graphic design...but that is not the even the exciting part. She was freelancing for this exact company...down here...in the middle of nowhere.......What? How is that possible? I thought. Turns out the owners have a beach home here and love it so much they opened a small corp headquarters on this little island where I thought I was hibernating. What are the odds?? How did I get so lucky?
Do things ever just happen to us? Or are we in a constant state of creation whether we acknowlege it or not? What is this place called "the Zone" and how do we get there? Exactly how does one create out of thin air? What awareness do we have to have in order to know which seat to sit in, when not to be in the office? the right investment to make? when it is time to cut and run? what energies are needed for a project to come to fruition with ease? even who not to partner with, in business or in bed for that matter? How much awareness have we shut down not to know these things? How many choices have we made that we knew somewhere when we made them that they were wrong? or were only right for that moment and not forever? .....What if we all still didn't talk to strangers? ate everything on our plate whether we liked it or not? and thought 'down there' was a dirty place?
Hopefully you are over those choices and decisions! But that is how we live our lives in some aspects. Still abiding by rules or decisions or judgements that are just about as silly and useless, if not even detrimental! What if we only lived by our own rules of what feels right to us? What if that is the difference between us and massive success? Would Richard Branson follow how everybody else does business? If he did where would he be today? Would Ian Schrager worry about protocol in the hotel industry? Or have they amassed fortunes creating things that the world has never seen?
Where do you get your brilliance? I know it is in there. It is palpable. I can feel it just waiting for you to invite it to burst into being. How long has it been since you dared to let yourself go there? What inspires you? Where do you go?
Maybe it is during a long hot shower....maybe while driving 95+mph down the freeway.... or perhaps curled up with a mocha on a lazy Sunday morning…….. Where is your sweet spot? What gets your creatives juices flowing?
What if you lived in that space?
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Blogging...me???
So I am blogging....why? you ask...because it feels light....practicing tools I learned from Access Energy Transformation (if it feels light; it is right- if it feels heavy it is a lie) So this felt light...to share the dribblings of my mind...with you. Who are you? Does anyone actually read these? What do you want to know? What are you searching for? What is light in your world? Can you even respond?....don't know that...must find out!
It 's 5:21...sun dropping behind the trees on this first day that feels like summer...although it is Feb...weird being in the south! So many smells here...just put a crumpet in the toaster...i am certain if you are from the UK this is not up to par but for me here in SC they are a tasty approximation...as i moved to answer my phone I caught the perfume of an orange I bought at the Farmers Market on Saturday...grown right here on the island, green leaves still attached...never smelled anything like this before...like a flower not an orange...sweet like honey. I had to go pick it up. Funny when i put it right to my nose the smell lost some of it's potency... We do that with lots of things I guess...better at a slight distance...what is that all about? What if we could keep all of our potency even when being scrutinized or compared? Or are we more potent when mixed and melded with other elements...like the space between the molecules in the air that we all occupy together. What do you require to be your full potency?
Crumpet's done...move to cabinet for a small plate...open to the heady aromas of dark Costa Rican Coffee...my remaining stash from my last glorious trip there a few months ago...also mixed in with that of Jasmin Green Tea and a yummy tease of citrus from Earl Grey...hmm...calling to me...I will make some tea...Funny that...tea and crumpets....purely a coincidence....contemplating what to have with my crumpets...I spy a ripe mango...looks about to burst ...so juicy....then get distracted by my sexy beast of a cat weaving his tail in and out of my legs....what is he asking for? treats? water? no, just some leg love....
I remember the nut butter (discovered when I thought I had peanut allergies but thanks to Access that is no more but i am sticking with this delicious substitute- much better than the real thing) must spread quickly before crumpet cools off.
What shall I write about in my blog I am thinking? Business, change agents, taking over the world......Cherries!!! I have cherry preserves I can put on top of the nut butter. Homemade from the most beautiful, nurturing african american woman you have ever seen! (Us white girls missed the boat somewhere I believe) Her food is devine and the kind of woman you wish your mom was...or your lover, whatever the case may be....so you could just curl up in her large comfy breasts and know that everything is truly alright! How does it get any better than this?
The teapot is starting to whistle...perfect timing! Don't you love it when everything arrives simultaneously?
Oh and my dryer buzzer going off. Maybe I will put on a warm snuggly clean shirt to go outside and write my blog...getting a bit chilly as sun dips into the water. But the fire red and cotton candy pink sky worth a little chill. Slip on big white button down man shirt...mmmm...still warm from the dryer, so comfy...detect the faint hint of a familiar bouquet...is that?...(realized I have not showered yet today...hazards of working from home!) ...no...i recognize it as the sweet scent of a beautiful man I got to know this weekend. How did I get so lucky?
...5:51 - Ok, I am back from swimming in that energy...my tea is cold....sunsetting ...time to write my blog....
What would you like to know?
It 's 5:21...sun dropping behind the trees on this first day that feels like summer...although it is Feb...weird being in the south! So many smells here...just put a crumpet in the toaster...i am certain if you are from the UK this is not up to par but for me here in SC they are a tasty approximation...as i moved to answer my phone I caught the perfume of an orange I bought at the Farmers Market on Saturday...grown right here on the island, green leaves still attached...never smelled anything like this before...like a flower not an orange...sweet like honey. I had to go pick it up. Funny when i put it right to my nose the smell lost some of it's potency... We do that with lots of things I guess...better at a slight distance...what is that all about? What if we could keep all of our potency even when being scrutinized or compared? Or are we more potent when mixed and melded with other elements...like the space between the molecules in the air that we all occupy together. What do you require to be your full potency?
Crumpet's done...move to cabinet for a small plate...open to the heady aromas of dark Costa Rican Coffee...my remaining stash from my last glorious trip there a few months ago...also mixed in with that of Jasmin Green Tea and a yummy tease of citrus from Earl Grey...hmm...calling to me...I will make some tea...Funny that...tea and crumpets....purely a coincidence....contemplating what to have with my crumpets...I spy a ripe mango...looks about to burst ...so juicy....then get distracted by my sexy beast of a cat weaving his tail in and out of my legs....what is he asking for? treats? water? no, just some leg love....
I remember the nut butter (discovered when I thought I had peanut allergies but thanks to Access that is no more but i am sticking with this delicious substitute- much better than the real thing) must spread quickly before crumpet cools off.
What shall I write about in my blog I am thinking? Business, change agents, taking over the world......Cherries!!! I have cherry preserves I can put on top of the nut butter. Homemade from the most beautiful, nurturing african american woman you have ever seen! (Us white girls missed the boat somewhere I believe) Her food is devine and the kind of woman you wish your mom was...or your lover, whatever the case may be....so you could just curl up in her large comfy breasts and know that everything is truly alright! How does it get any better than this?
The teapot is starting to whistle...perfect timing! Don't you love it when everything arrives simultaneously?
Oh and my dryer buzzer going off. Maybe I will put on a warm snuggly clean shirt to go outside and write my blog...getting a bit chilly as sun dips into the water. But the fire red and cotton candy pink sky worth a little chill. Slip on big white button down man shirt...mmmm...still warm from the dryer, so comfy...detect the faint hint of a familiar bouquet...is that?...(realized I have not showered yet today...hazards of working from home!) ...no...i recognize it as the sweet scent of a beautiful man I got to know this weekend. How did I get so lucky?
...5:51 - Ok, I am back from swimming in that energy...my tea is cold....sunsetting ...time to write my blog....
What would you like to know?
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