After Challenge...again

I continue to quest, my yearning, my journey. What a year, already!!

Here's the content update...

I have added several students to my music studio.
I started teaching for Drama Kids, a once-a-week class for school kids.
I have an audition for a major seminar company on Wednesday this week.
I completed the Challenge seminar (see www.CarolReynolds.com) in Utah in the snow.

The last one created the new ideas of prosperity that are waking me up and keeping my brain doing calisthenics. Challenge is a high ropes course and leadership seminar, in case you haven't done it yet. We go up into Utah in the Parawan/Cedar City area. This seminar puts you in a pressure cooker where everything that ever bugged you about people gets to come up and gets handled. It also gives you a chance to practice leadership in everything from climbing a wall to making dinner.

I came away from Challenge with two big lessons.

First, when I let myself love others with abandon, putting aside worrying about what others think of me, then I have courage to connect and make a difference with people like never before. It started with my daughter, who also was there, then spread to everyone else. As I continue with the Oneness Experiment and my Spiritual Peacemakers class, this idea of connection and love doesn't really surprise me. The connection I'm experiencing with people, the relaxed intimacy comes directly from my willingness to connect, my willingness to let go, to trust. Who cares if I get hurt? Who cares if things go badly? What's the worst thing that will happen if I love full out? Will I DIE? Of course not. What's that? I'll get "hurt"? Maybe. Or maybe I will be able to thank that person for a lesson I needed to learn. Maybe I'll just enjoy the love, wallowing in it, rubbing it all over me, spreading it around while I'm in the middle of it. That sounds way better than the whole "getting hurt" scenario, doesn't it?

The second thing I learned was that I don't have to know how to do it to do it.

Read that again.

Knowing "how" has stopped me SOOOO many times in my life. You? I have these great ideas and when I start working on it I freeze. How do I do this? What's the next step? I've never done this before! WHO CARES?? Edwene Gaines says the "how" is none of our business. Declare what you want to the Universe and let God take care of the how. Start walking the path. Move! Take action! And the mechanism will come into place when it is needed. You will meet the right person, learn the right skill or content, find the location, etc. TRUST! Mostly, trust yourself to have created an inspired vision and mission for your life. All my reading and study lately says that if I am clear in my mission, if I am about contribution and making this place better, then I step into the FLOW and things will come easily. My biggest issue is trusting that I really do make a difference, that I am the ONE to do what I am thinking about, not someone else. I have unique experiences and skills and knowledge that make my own ideas PERFECT for me to act on. Hello?? Do I hear the call of the Universe?

I am saying YES to the Universe. I am walking the path I see and will do so with joy and passion and love.

How about you??

Pamela