Stick with me. This is a circuitous route back to trusting excitement and synchronicity as my guides for the year.
This morning I left for my swim workout feeling slightly down, in self-judgment about my lack of effective promotion for a new coaching program, and overwhelmed by a couple of conversations with marketing people this past week. Driving along I noticed that my average miles-per-gallon indicator was quite low and it got me to thinking about indicators. I look at this avg mpg frequently and get kind of excited when I see it on the high end. I feel good about how I’ve been driving and conserving gas, supporting in some small way a cleaner environment. Why is it so low this morning? What did I do to contribute to such poor performance?
I’ve noticed in the past it doesn’t take much idling time to rather dramatically affect this indicator, especially if I’ve just refueled. That’s when it hit me. It doesn’t take but a few negative feelings, a bit of “poor-me” reflections or a round of self-critical barbs to dramatically affect my own indicator of “synchronous manifestations per unit of excitement.” When I stop focusing on excitement and get seduced by “should’s,” then life stops flowing, which is another way of saying synchronicity turns south. My indicator is low! However, the more time I spend taking action from a place of excitement (refueling), the more fun synchronicity I experience (positive manifestations), which leads to creating more of what excites me in my life (supporting others’ inner environment). My indicator is high!
Here’s the punch line. I followed my excitement by talking to two different marketing women this week about some projects. Each of them queried me about my business plan, marketing plan and marketing budget, none of which I have in any kind of structured form. I also totally enjoy listening to the Lightworker Virtual Broadcast. In a recent one, Steve told the story of a business consultant who started a new spiritually based business that ultimately failed. When Steve asked this man about his business plan he commented he had not done one for this business because he was following a spiritual calling, even though he was a specialist at business plans!
But I didn’t even recognize the synchronicity of these events. I “idled” instead on how much time these plans were going to take and wasted energy on feeling impatient and frustrated. It took my car’s mpg indicator to wake me up to my own inner indicator. When I finally saw the path, built through excitement, that led to the synchronicity of hearing 3 times that I need a business plan, I just had to laugh. And with laughter, there is some spaciousness to move toward excitement and jump back on the wagon of my commitment to trusting excitement to take me to where I want to go with this business, even when the path isn’t clear.
What kind of indicators do you have in your life? How often do you look at them? What’s your current reading? Do share. Surely I’m not the only one that has strayed a bit from the new year’s focus.