Archive for January, 2010

I just love Will Smith.  This is an awesome compilation of his wise, wise words!

By Christine Kloser

Do what you can.
Want what you have.
Be who you are.

These three simple lines were the message of the sermon I heard at church last weekend. As I heard these words, each one of them landed firmly in my heart and in my body as TRUTH.

Think for a moment about how much you try to “do, do, do.” Perhaps you often end your days feeling as if you didn’t get enough done. It’s a debilitating cycle to continually feel like you are not doing enough. And, of course this triggers a deeper rooted feeling of simply not believing YOU are enough.

It’s safe to say this is a cycle you are not interested in engaging in. So, let’s look at the first of these simple, yet profound, statements. “Do what you can.” Imagine living your life from the place of only doing what you can do. Not trying to do more than is humanly possible, not trying to overcompensate for your weakness by striving to do more and more, but instead believing you are valuable and enough for WHO YOU ARE. Right now, take a deep breath and give yourself permission to do what you can today and to feel GOOD about it. And, embrace this philosophy every day.

The next of these statements is another profound teaching… “Want what you have.” Imagine living your life from the place of wanting what you have rather than feeling the scarcity and lack that comes from wanting those things you don’t have. If you could release your desire for the things you don’t yet have, and truly embrace the feeling of wanting what you DO have… your world would shift from scarcity to abundance in a split second. You’re BEING would shift from contracted to expanded in a heartbeat.

The wanting of what you don’t have is likely tied into the same thread that’s present in doing more than you can… and this is the feeling of “not enough.” The feeling of not enough (and always wanting more) will be ever present until you stop searching outside of yourself for anything. If you’ve been on any sort of spiritual journey you are likely nodding in agreement with what you’re reading here. But, for those of you who are new to the concept of not seeking anything outside of yourSELF, I invite you simply to begin contemplating what that would look like for you. Who would you be and how would you feel if YOU were the only one you wanted anything from?

And, this leads me to the third profound statement I received at church and that is “Be who you are.” It sounds so simple, doesn’t it? But, when you bring in expectations, approval seeking, not feeling like enough, trying to “fit in,” wanting to be liked, society pressure, family pressure, peer pressure, and a critical inner voice making you think you “should” be something other than who you are… you’ll soon see that the simple act of “being who you are” is not so simple.

One of the most valuable and insightful questions you can ever ask yourself is, “Who am I?” Because in answering a question of this depth and importance, you’ll begin to see that who you are has nothing to do with your career, your business or what you do. It has nothing to do with being a mother, wife, sister, son, friend or colleague. It has nothing to do with the size of your home, the make of your car or your wardrobe. Who you are is much more than any of that.

So, I ask you now to contemplate this question…. “Who are you?” Allow yourself to go beyond any material identification to get to the depths of your heart and soul where the answer to that question is always there waiting for you to remember.

© 2010 Christine Kloser

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First up, if you hadn’t read Debra’s story about what happened when she outsourced to you all the request to sell her house energetically, it’s a must read.

Debra’s isn’t the only success story that’s been reported back to us.   You OutSourcerers are pretty freakin’ cool!

After writing that post, it became obvious that tapping into the collective power for deliberate creation is happening in lots of ways already: Global Coherence Initiative, The Intention Experiment, regular prayer groups, etc.

In fact, it’s making me think it might be fun to harness that power she’s leading in the OutSourcerers forum at Good Vibe U (www.goodvibeu.com) to one particular person at a time.  (Today we do Fen, tomorrow Bridgette, etc.) 

Like the power of a laser, instead of a bunch of random flashlights pointing here then there.   Just a (fun) thought! 

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Anyway, I’m posting today to let you know that we are slowly but surely gathering numbers over at Good Vibe University.

I haven’t done any big formal public announcements or anything about it, because frankly I’ve got nothing but scrambled thoughts about how to do that.

I know how it’s supposed to be done, but I can’t bring myself to do it.  I refuse to take action that isn’t inspired.

Michele Woodward posted on her facebook page the other day that she is tired of being sold to.  I totally know what she means!

In fact, this week I unsubscribed from several ezines of people whose work I tremendously respect – I just couldn’t read it any more because it was so … traditional.  With a pitch here, a promotion there, and maybe you’ll find a worthy article underneath, maybe not.

It’s so time to do it different, I’m just entirely sure what different looks like.  !

SO in the meantime, I sit here with a gorgeous new place for creators to hang out, and no idea how to share it!!  lol

It’s just hilarious to me.

In a delightful way.

I love that I’m not relying on old methods.  (How old can they really be, when the internet is still young?)  I’m just not sure what “new” and “authentic” is.

But it will come to me, and until then I promised doors would open in January 2010.  And they are.  If you feel inspired to join us there, you are officially invited and very welcome to!

My next formal entry going in my Intentions Journal is inspiration for how to share the news about Good Vibe U.  My latest baby and true love.

• It’s the project that made me prefer “work” over showers, over meals, over dog walks, over blog posts, over chats with friends, over much of the stuff I used to make generous time for. 
• It’s what I lie in bed about being too excited to sleep (finally got Paul McKenna to make me sleep – thank you, Paul). 
• It’s what I talk with Russ about every time when he asks, “How was your day?”
• It’s what makes me realize my biggest and best and oldest (deliberate) intention is coming to powerful physical fruition: to talk with others who are interested in law of attraction! 

About the ins and the outs of it, the challenges and the tips, the stories and the support!  A perpetual gathering for people just like me who want to be more powerful creators and talk with their own kind!

To know that we’re not crazy, we’re not alone, and that we’re actually getting really good at this deliberately creating-our-reality stuff!

Man, if I didn’t know better about how it all worked, I would think I owed Universe big time for giving me this.  This dream come true.

Anyway, that’s where I’ve been if it seems like I’ve been laying low.  I’ve been behind the curtain getting things ready for you.  I hope you like it. 

Scratch that!  I intend you LOVE it!!  Even half as much as I do would be a lot of love to flow.  

So until I feel some inspiration about how to properly share the news with the rest of the world, it’s just you all and me hanging out there. 

And that’s a party I like the sounds of. 

First group call starts next week!  You don’t have to enroll to listen in, although I’m still finding the right setting that allows the public to access dial-in info. 

Call archives and discussion groups are for enrolled members only (helps pay for the lights and faculty and ensures we get committed creators – not random naysayers – in those conversations). 

(I’ll post dial in info here if that’s not in place by Feb 3, but I’m sure it will be.)

I’d like to send a big fat thank you to all of you who helped inspire this gathering – both here and at Good Vibe U.  You are exactly who I had in mind when I was creating a good time for myself!

PS – thanks for your votes on what to call this place!  I’m confident the answer will reveal itself soon.  And remember to check out Debra’s post before you turn off the computer today.  She shows how you all are rockin’ it!

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By Eva Gregory, CPCC

It is sometimes hard to figure out your place in life. What is your purpose? What are you meant to do in life? I like to think of life as a large symphony. Each player in the symphony plays a certain part. There are different instruments in each section –piano, violins, cellos, flutes, trumpets, percussion. Each section seeks to play in harmony with the other. Each person has a special skill and talent that they have worked and practiced for many years. They have honed their particular musical skill so that when it comes time to perform that orchestral piece, they are ready.

It is sometimes difficult to figure out what our talents are. What I can guarantee is that every person has a talent or skill that they are good at. It can be an unusual skill such as making folded paper origami, or it might be an athletic skill.

Once you figure out what that skill is, the next step is to figure out how you can utilize that skill. Sometimes you have to be creative and think outside the box. Suppose you are good at making paper cranes. What kind of career can that lead to? Well maybe, you are creative at other artistic creations. Maybe you are good with math and spatial skills that make you invaluable in a field like architecture or design.

When you are sure you have identified your talent, begin to hone and improve it. This can mean going to school or a technical college. It can mean training under other professionals in the field. Whatever the case maybe, strive to be the best at what you are good at. Practice and refine your talent.

I have a client who worked at a department store. He has a great eye for design and was given the chance to decorate a clothing display for the holidays. They liked it so much they asked him to more projects. He’s always loved visual arts but lacked the confidence to do anything with it as a career. Eventually, he became the head of the display department in the clothing store he was working in. It was a promotion and an increase in pay. That was the feedback he needed to really see he could trust his desires to be, do or have whatever he wanted. He went back to school and eventually got his BA in Art. He continued to be promoted within the company he was working in and eventually moved to Washington DC. Today, he is the art director for a major clothing chain He recognized a talent he had, honed his talent, and is now the happiest he has ever been in his life.

What about you? Are you ready to blend your instrument with the rest of the symphony and play your music in harmony with others around you? You can, you know. Whenever you’re ready. You will be a star!

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We have a saying in Spanish “No es para tanto”. It’s like saying it’s no big deal, but it literally means it’s not for so much meaning that the reaction is disproportionate to the experience. I love this saying because this is how life is, it’s not for so much.

Life brings us problems all of the time. Emergencies, difficulties, bothers, things to anger us, to worry us and so on. As I sit here in Starbucks in San Miguel de Allende there is a man at the next coffee table speaking with a young lady making a big to do about nothing. He’s American, but keeps saying things in English and then in Spanish, emphasizing how dramatic his story is by saying it twice. He is loud and boisterous, taking up a lot of energetic space and sound space, meaning that we can all hear him better than our own table’s conversations. Needless to say, he is going on and on about how “shocked” he was about how people have treated him. No doubt.

We all have problems and although some problems seem worse than others, we can’t really compare because we don’t know what energy another person has and what they are attracting to their lives. So, we all need to turn our problems into lemonade. After all, “no es para tanto.”

The gentleman at the next table is taking himself further and further out of his flow by going on and on about how it’s someone else’s fault; about how he was wronged. He is enhancing the energy of being wronged and, no doubt, in his life people will continue to wrong him (in his eyes).

To get into our flow we all need to truly have our experience. For example, the man I have used as an example would need to experience what he has called being wronged and truly be with that experience. By feeling what it feels like to be thus mistreated, he would allow his experience and flow it. This alone would change him and his life. It would change how he sees his own story so that he would begin to recognize that he has had a part in it all.

He has attracted and created this just as much as the person he feels wronged him. He would begin to see that throwing all the blame on another is irresponsible because it takes away his opportunity to change himself and make a correction in his life. Flowing is a process: we welcome what we are thinking, feeling and experiencing so that we are truly experiencing our lives. When we remember something or re-experience the same thing then we need to flow it again. As this man flows the memories when they return, he might even see how he actually imposes himself on other as well, doing to others what he is claiming has been done to him.

Life is short, though when we are continually focused on what makes us bitter then we often feel like the pain of life goes on forever. Life can be cruel, but only when we choose to remain in a painful place, like the place where we are victimized.

On the other hand, life can be sweet, like when we take responsibility for our lives and we allow our experience to be with us; when we feel the way we feel. Then life flows and even sadness or pain become transformed, yielding joy and a new day filled with new possibilities, new love and new happiness. At that point, our Golden Flow™ from our Source Energy turns our lives into lemonade!
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