Car Contrast

Yesterday I set out to find a way to keep my car, Shade, a 2006 Dolphin Gray Audi A4 Convertible. I failed. Every angle we tried was a dead end. Oh and my fav? Paying $600 a month for 60 months (5 years) and having it's worth drop significantly in 2010 because of a new body type. Oy!

So I went to look at some other cars -- and here's the teaching in this -- and got both excited at the possibilities and bumped out about them too.

Now, when I'm doing something, I want to be fully aligned with it. I want my heart to be saying a BIG FAT YES and nothing in the way. No qualms, etc.

It reached a point this morning where I found myself looking at a 4 door, V6 sedan with no tiptronic but a fancy interior and okay body. Now, this might sound like a cool deal, and I'm sure it was, but I want a fun car, with a tiptronic transmission , sunroof or convertible, great handling and a sense of freedom. This wasn't it.

But here I was considering it. I stopped, walked back into the showroom and said I didn't want it a V6, 4-door sedan without a tiptronic. I want a MINI. They heard me, said okay and started walking away. It was funny!!! :)

So now, I'm on a mission to buy a used Mini Cooper Convertible, which I believe will give me everything I want!

O.D. on Beauty

Have you ever felt like you're just going to explode -- KABOOOMB!!! -- from witnessing so much beauty? Sometimes, when I go to Sunday morning dance class, one of the intentions I set is to see and witness and experience beauty. And then I do. In droves. And I don't just mean the women. I mean the movement, the shapes, the facial expressions, the clothing colors, how we all come together an apart. Mostly I notice the women, but I notice all these too.

Sometimes I feel like I'm just going to explode, as though I can't take it all in. But I can.

I think that explosion feeling is coming from either a sense of lack -- "There's so many beautiful women in the world and where's mine." -- but could also come from our own innate expansion.

I don't know which it is, but I was certainly mesmerized by it today.

Now that's Abundance! :)

Whose "Good" Should I Align With?

For the last few weeks, I've sort of been in an expanded form a soul-searching. Not from a place of unrest or angst per se. But more from a place of wanting to be in maximum alignment.

About 2 weeks ago or so, last time I saw my favorite local channel -- Dr. Peebles -- I realized that for the last 2 years solid, and I mean SOLID, I had been pursuing vehicles for financial freedom for the sake of pursuing financial freedom, but not necessarily because I was overjoyed and thrilled about the vehicle itself. Oh sure, I enjoyed real estate investing and I truly GET and understand the value and potential of network marketing. But I was doing them for the final outcome -- NOT because I loved the doing of them.

So here I am in my latest venture: YTB Travel. Now, I LOVE travel!! It's one of my top favorite things to do in the world. In fact, many of my closest friends from before my move to LA will recall how I blogged my way through 4 months in Europe during 2001. That alone thrilled me. Enough to make me want to be able to travel and get paid for it. So of course the value proposition with YTB was appealing and made complete sense to me -- when I'm doing the traveling.

Enter the whole old school recruiting techniques I'm being taught. Oh and don't misunderstand -- they work like a charm!!! I have a number of friends and colleagues rocking the house in various MLMs, using these techniques. But I don't want to take the ACTION and EFFORT journey toward my success! I don't want to make phone calls and solicit people to watch presentations, etc, etc. That's like asking every girl out who crosses my path -- regardless of whether I'm attracted or not.

Hmmm, I actually did that through most of my 30s. Hmmm. But now my dating is different. Higher quality, less quantity. Hmmm. Something to look into perhaps? Hmmm.

Anyways, my point is this: I want to learn and practice attracting EVERYTHING into my life. Money, work, lovers, friends, cars, business partners, clients, colleagues, travel destinations, clothes, everything.

And the only way I (currently) know how to do that is to line up with MY GOODNESS. What I BELIEVE is Good and Right and Proper and Joyful for me. To line up with what brings me joy. In fact, not only the what, but the way. And to trust that in that alignment, all comes to fruition.

Hmmm. Clearly more to think about here.

Everything We Want Is Inevitable

I had a great talk with my dear friend J today. She'd had a frantic day awaiting news on something important in her life and she got through it with grace and poise, despite having some chaotic moments in the day. That got us to talking on one of our, and my, favorite subjects: how to find a better feeling thought-place from where we are. Essentially, practicing what Abraham-Hicks teaches in how to coordinate with Law of Attraction.

We covered a lot of ground as we most often do and toward the end, I thought of something I had never thought before.

"Think about it J. If life -- the Universe -- is set up in such a way so that every time we experience chaos or contrast, we intrinsically and instinctually launch a new or refined desire, and that new desire is instantly fulfilled energetically, then everything we want is inevitable. That's a pretty deep level of faith, isn't it?"

To which she responded, "Whooooa!" in her most wonderful, dude voice copy of how Keanu Reeves says the same line in the Matrix.

And seriously. THINK ABOUT IT! Everything we want is inevitable, just due to the creative dynamic of existence, of life.

My next car is inevitable.
My next lover is inevitable.
The woman I will marry is inevitably coming into my life and marrying me.
My next job is inevitable.
My next business is inevitable.
Having successful businesses is inevitable.
Becoming financially free is inevitable.
Becoming rich is inevitable.
The type of physique I want is inevitable.

But here's the key, and it's a doozie:

We must make peace with the inevitability of it.

Abraham once said to me "When you make peace with the inevitability of it, it takes the angst away. And when the angst is gone, it comes sooner. You have to make peace with the later before it comes sooner."

To me, this means I do not have to suffer, effort or strive for what I want. I just simply believe and align, then follow inspiration for the actions to take. I love this way of life! I want to do EVERYTHING from this vantage point. Love, travel, business, work, relationships, money, health, everything!

Try it. I dare you. :) (tee hee hee)

I Had an Idea Today

Today, while researching alternate means of creating network marketing leads using Internet Marketing and other Internet technique, I had an idea.

I have know for years that I am better suited -- meaning more aligned, excited, passionate, etc. -- to market and promote my OWN creations than other people's creations, or persuading someone to do or buy something they don't want to do or buy, made by someone else.

So the idea today was "Maybe it's time to make something new. Something I can sell on the Internet. Maybe it's time I start creating my own stuff again AND sell it online. Maybe that's my path to financial freedom?"

If I'm going to ask people to do something; if I'm going to build leverage on the Internet and create multiple streams of passive income, why not do it with MY OWN IDEAS and
CREATIONS? Certainly makes sense to me.

Not sure what that would be. But I'm open to being inspired...

Freedom

Happy Independence Day everyone!

There's certainly something to be said for Freedom. All kinds of it! A few years back, I realized that everything I do is geared toward Freedom. Personally, I value freedom of schedule, money, routines, processes, love and creativity. Professionally I like the freedom to work when and if I want to, make what I want and not be under someone's thumb or control. And spiritually, what I want most for everyone else, is what I want for myself: greater and greater sense of freedom in our bodies, minds, hearts and souls.

Luckily, I believe our souls, our spirit if you will, area already free. I don't believe in sin. I don't believe in evil or badness. I believe there is nothing but Well-Being. All we need to do is allow it to flow to and through us. I believe we are all conduits for that flowing. And in that flowing, and in how life flows, is inherent freedom.

No one can create in my reality, in my experience. Now that's freedom too!

Lastly, imagine what total 100% connection with the feeling of freedom is like -- on every level of life. Wouldn't things just start to happen magically and magnificently? I think they would. I certainly dance like they will.

God -- or whatever -- bless you and may you FEEL the depth of Freedom that is truly part of who you really are!

How Do You Measure Abundance?

I'm back, after a bit of a hiatus. Self-imposed actually. I thought I "needed" to focus on other things. Hahahaha. In reality, this blog is important to me. It's an important vehicle to share my experience. But also a way for me to connect with all of you -- and whoever comes to read it. It keeps me honest (and possibly humble). And it keeps me focused on Abundance, since I've sort of become this Steward of Abundance.

So what have I been doing? Working my consulting work again since Early April. It's been good too. Work I'm really good at AND that I love to do. I also get paid really, really well. In fact, Since early April, I've managed to increase my hourly rate $8. Now that's Abundance!! And in such a quick period of time too! It used to take 3 years to go up that much per hour. Thank you Universe.

So my query out to anyone reading today is this: How do you measure Abundance?

This is actually two questions in one:
1. how do YOU personally measure it?
2. how do you think it should/could/would be measured objectively?

Please share your comments below.