PLACE OF POSSIBILITY

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• CK 08:07:58 am on August 17, 2009 | 0 | # |
  Tags: +Intention, Career, DoingWhatYouLove, Inspiration, Money, True Stories

  "As an antidote to rigid financial conditions, Hagan got his cab driver’s license and insurance, and officially opened for business last month with the Recession Ride Taxi. In his SUV, Hagen will take passengers anywhere they want to go in and around Essex—for whatever they want to pay.

  There are no set prices for transportation, and Hagen also offers a cooler full of pay-what-you-want beverages to thirsty guests. He even offers special perks to frequent riders: he provides his passengers with hole punch cards, giving them a free ride after every six trips.

  Of course, Hagen’s customers could easily get a free ride anyway—after all, he’s not forcing them to open their wallets.  Since his payment policy is so flexible, he’s taken some strange trades: one customer gave him a $10 grocery card, and a local musician gave him his group’s CD. But in the weeks since the business has launched, Hagen hasn’t been short-changed once."

  "I believed from the start that this would work,” he said. “I believed that people are going to be generous enough to make it worth my while, and I’m going to be generous enough to let them decide."

   

  Check out the rest of this story and other uplifting real life stories at dailygood.org.
  

   

• CK 01:20:43 pm on July 30, 2009 | 0 | # |
  Tags: +Intention, De-Clutter, DoingWhatYouLove, Imagine, Manifest, Practice IDEAS, Relax, Think IT, Visualize

  I toss the weeds over the fence and smell the agitated basil and mint come to life!  Yum.  Dinner is next.

  A few thoughts from weeding the herb garden (something I love and find very refreshing):

  MY INTENTION:  Do something I enjoy outside.  Take in the afternoon sun.  Make room for the basil to capture more light.  And as in everything, look for reasons to appreciate my life and feel good.

  APPLICATION TO LIFE:  In what areas of my life would I like more room for change, for growth, for freedom, for new possibilities?  What thoughts would I like to stop thinking?  I am always observing my thoughts and moving from weeds toward what I want.  Always, looking to tend more positive affirmations/statements/desires.  Sure weeds come up, but I’m in the habit now of catching them and refocusing.  Someday I’ll be so good at this that I’ll be totally unimpressed with the weeds.  For now, I might simply say, “I want something new and refreshing to come into this part of my life.”  Then cultivate the expectation of it.

  Then there’s that clutter piling up around and in my living and work spaces.  I might want to feel the ahhhh of creating room, even before I have the idea of what I want to fill in!  I did this with my closet when I first started practicing Law of Attraction a few years ago.  I wanted to attract the possibility of having new clothes and feel refreshed by the organization and ease of using my closet everyday.

  PRACTICE IDEA:  Maybe you feel inspired to de-clutter an area of your life, or simply take a few minutes and imagine/visualize being in a beautiful simple refreshing place.  Make it juicy!  Afterward, reflect on your visualization.  What came to mind?  Are you inspired to take any action as a result?  Simply feeling refreshed or relaxed is it!

  KEY:  Notice the mental weeds as they crop up, but spend most of your time planting, cultivating, expecting, and feeling good about what it is that you are wanting to grow!

  

   

• CK 09:25:41 am on July 12, 2009 | 0 | # |
  Tags: DoingWhatYouLove, Focus, Inner-Critic, Naysayers

  Let your incentive for action be your inspiration.

  Should.

  Have to.

  Need to.

  Must.

  I want to.

  I like this aspect, that aspect…

  I’m hopeful about this…

  What feels good/better?  What part of your focus/thinking is driving your life?

  Which Way Are You Going?/Coyote Karrick

   

• CK 02:26:36 pm on June 24, 2009 | 0 | # |
  Tags: Career, DoingWhatYouLove, Imagine, Inner-Critic, Inspiration, Manifest, Naysayers, True Stories, Visualize

  I’ve been thinking some more about Dr. Abreu  (see my last post).  You can learn more about him and the prize awarded to him at TED Ideas Worth Spreading, a website I love!

  A music teacher who started a program, small and unknown, in a Venezuelan  garage with no guarantees and very little financial support that has now become a worldwide inspiration.  His story brings me back to these ideas for living a meaningful life:

  • Following the thread of our passion leads us to places we can’t yet imagine! Predictions often just get in the way.
  • The trick is to make the journey the IT – as meaningful as any ending we’ve imagined.
  • Any time we are postponing our joy (discouraged, in the past or the future, or just “getting it done,” etc.) we can re-tune our focus to what’s positive in our current experience (the only time we are truly guaranteed to have).
  • The meaning of life is to live that which we love, and to find joy in the process of discovering more of what we love (knowing what we don’t want helps us know what is meaningful to us).  For example, you may say, “I don’t love what I’m doing now,” or “I don’t know what I want to do.”  You could also say, “I can be happy about this and that regardless of what I’m doing.” Or,  “Here’s what I know I love so far, and there’s more to come, it’s on it’s way, and I expect it will be great!”
  • Dr. Abreu didn’t have any guarantees of changing the world by teaching 11 students.  Following the thread of what we love, and being happy in the process, does lead us in the best way to be of service to humanity.
  • Trying to figure out all the hows of an idea ahead of time will only slow us down.  Dr. Abreu had an idea fueled by passion and faith that was beyond his knowing of “how” it would go.  I would say that it’s not “luck” made him successful it is believing.

  The most satisfactory experiences in my life are also based on strongly inspired ideas (often I can’t explain why – I just know it feels right), a willingness to leap, a lack of attention to “naysayers” (including my own inner-critic), and overwhelming faith and focus on the positive.  Lately, my scale of believing has been tested by a few naysayers who say, “Sure, but how?!” Or simply, “I don’t think you can.”  In the other great milestones of my life, the balance of the scale was tipped toward conviction, desire, faith, etc., much like Dr. Abreu.  The overridden part of the scale included the hows, what-ifs, and voices of doubt.  I know that my clarity is compromised when I consider what others are seeking for me or what would make others more comfortable.  Some of my best decisions have made some people feel quite uneasy.  So, it helps me to remember that it’s not my job to follow the thread that makes other people happiest.  This is why I’m so grateful to be practicing following my inner-compass, my thread of joy.

  Dr. Abreu’s story also reminds me that the joy in life is in the process of creating something, and not a fixed end result.  He didn’t say, “When I have 30,000 students then I will be happy.”  He was happy with 11 students and he was inspired to keep following the thread of possibility.

  The trick is to enjoy wherever we are a bit or a lot more, to keep turning toward what fuels the energy of possibility within us, and let go of needing to know the rest, because we know that the journey is the richness of our lives.

  Love & Peace on your adventures!

  Coyote

  PRACTICE IDEA:  Rather than looking at where you are “not,” dedicate  10 minutes a day for a week to this writing exercise:  1.  List 10 things you appreciate in your current place of possibility (your life right now).  2.  List 10 possibilities for tomorrow or a year or more from now that would be meaningful to you, delightful, surprising, satisfying, over-the-top fun!  Notice if your inner-voice is limiting what you write, cramping your imagination, or judging these things as possible or not.  If you have a lot of internal “naysaying” then you may want to work on freeing your life from the inner-critic too!

  “As you set out…ask that the way be long” (C. Cavafy), or short and sweet, or however it may be, but let the scale reside in the realm of your joy!

  

  Photo:  The Possibilities Are Delicious!/iPhone/Queens NY/Coyote Karrick

   

• CK 10:59:14 am on June 18, 2009 | 1 | # |
  Tags: Inspiration, Inner-Compass, DoingWhatYouLove, Career

  33 years ago, Dr. Jose Antonio Abreu gathered 11 students in a parking garage in Caracas, Venezuela and taught them to play music. Over the last three decades, Dr. Abreu’s organization, “El Sistema” or “The System” has grown considerably and now teaches music to 300,000 of Venezuela’s poorest children.
  

  Read more and see the video at DailyGood.org

  
  Idea:  We all have gifts.  Have you taken some thought recently to the gifts that you love to share?  What other gifts would you share/express in the world if anything were possible?  Are you open to new avenues for expressing your talents and discovering new ones?

  I find it amazing how many of the world’s innovators just started out following the thread of what they love to do and then doors opened for new connections, avenues to share their love, careers, prosperity, etc.

  Life is full to bursting with opportunity and everyone has special qualities to express.
  Photo:  The Smiling Musician/iPhone/Coyote Karrick

   

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