Posts Tagged ‘relationships’

I Get to Spent Time With a Dear Friend

Sunday, June 6th, 2010

Dear writing,

I miss you. I miss the way you stimulate me, clear my head, and give me roots. I miss the pleasure you give my soul. I miss fighting with the symbols call “words” to describe my experiences. You are air and food for my spirit. I need you and I’ve been away from you too long.

Of course, you’re kind enough to show up and nourish me even when I don’t spend one-on-one time with you. I’m grateful.

I taste nourishment when I connect with clients who need my business services. You feed my spirit as I help them with tax preparation, business plans, and life coaching.

I see your influence when people I’ve never met call and ask for help with their retirement accounts. Even though I’m not an attorney, a CPA, or a financial planner, you use my experiences and unique approach attract them. Now, those people are taking control of their finances, moving money from the stock market to their own businesses, and not paying penalty or taxes when they do so. That is your genius at work.

I feel your comfort when I face our family’s million-dollar debt and an idea pops into my head to speed how we whittle it down each month.

I smell the scent of your presence when I host a seminar. You whisper in my ear when people ask questions. You remind me of stories that communicate the point I’m trying to make.

I hear you when new people consider becoming a part of our growing family. You help me communicate my vision so each person can determine whether he or she fits within it. Since the first of the year, at least one new person each month has arrived here. You help me sort who stays and who goes by giving me the questions to ask so each person achieves clarity. I know it is you speaking to them through me, just as you speak to me through my fingers when I’m sitting at the keyboard.

As I said, I’m grateful.

So today, after an amazing first five months of 2010, I get to spend time with you one-on-one. Thank you for your patience and your faithfulness.

I’ll see you next Sunday morning, same place, same time. Does that work for you?

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The Rewards of Maintaining Relationships

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

I’m sometimes asked how our large and growing family maintains relationships. It is easy to do, when we make it a priority, and it is far easier that the drama that comes when we do not maintain those relationships.

More than just avoiding drama, the efforts always produce wonderful rewards.

Here is a short list of how we do this and some of the rewards:

We meet six mornings a week to say affirmations, read inspirational material, and review the day.

We connect to each other on Facebook and subscribe to status updates via cell phone.

We celebrate birthdays and special occasions.

We spend Sundays playing sports and games while hanging out together.

The Facebook method is especially effective and it often holds special surprises for us. For example, when Peter went from long ponytail to shaved head, he “did the deed” late on a Friday night and posted the picture on Facebook. When I got up early Saturday morning, I first saw his new look there.

Mary often posts pictures of Isaiah, our grandson, on Facebook. Even though I see him every day, those pictures capture him in special moments I wouldn’t otherwise experience.

And sometimes, I’m completely blown away by someone demonstrating a talent I didn’t know they had.

Emmanuel recently posted this poem.

Today a bud tomorrow a blossom,
enjoy the beauty for a season
petals fall down
to cry there is no reason
around the bend yet another blossom

A few days later, Paul wrote a beautiful note about his weekend experience at Bosque del Apache.

Maintaining relationships is a joy with unexpected and beautiful surprises. What can you do today to maintain the relationships in your life?

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My Intuition is Never Wrong

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

I wrote yesterday about how I took a chance by following my intuition and sending an email to an ex-classmate I had a crush on for over forty years.

When I send the email, I sense a shift inside me. I walk away from the computer and release any attachment to the results. Maybe my intuition is trustworthy. After all, my wife’s intuition confirms my intuition. Maybe I can trust it

I discover I am at peace.

Less than two hours later, I have a response. I open it without hesitation.

Cathy, the object of my crush, is at a loss for words. She had no idea of my feelings. She insists on calling me the next week.

I respond and she calls the next day.

In fact, we talk several times that week.

We catch up on our past.

We share spiritual stores.

We laugh.

We cry.

A weight comes off my shoulders as I realize that my intuition wasn’t wrong. In fact, it was completely accurate.

Cathy and I have a great deal to offer one another. She teaches a discipline that I just started learning. My writing confirms her discoveries. 

During our conversations, Cathy mentions several books. One resonates with me. I know I have to get it.

I use the internet to put it on hold at the library before we finish our conversation.

I pick it up the next day and read it in one night.

I find everything else written by the author and put all of his books on hold.

I pick them up and read them. My wife reads them. Our children read them.

Every book is jammed full of insight on following intuition.

Suddenly, I trust everything coming from my intuition without a trace of doubt. I act without hesitation.

Everything in my life accelerates.

It is easier to hear my intuition because I trust it. I no longer block it.

My relationships experience fulfillment because trusting my intuition is necessary before I can trust others.

My businesses experience remarkable profit during “down economic times” because I take massive action immediately instead of overanalyzing what my intuition tells me.

I suddenly have the courage to close a profitable business because it distracts me from my passion of writing and coaching.

I schedule two weeks of training to help my sons with their business.

Life becomes easy, so easy that I wonder each day what remarkable thing will come my way today.

Even though I wasn’t conscious of it, my unfulfilled childhood crush subconsciously hindered me from trusting my internal guidance. It prevented me from clearly hearing my source, my God. This happens because I think it was wrong once.

Truthfully, I just didn’t have all the facts yet.

Today, I know it wasn’t wrong then and it won’t be wrong tomorrow.

Learning to trusting my intuition moves my life to a new level.

I wonder what remarkable thing will come my way today.

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