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Who do You Serve?  

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As far back as Marketing 101, I understood how important it is to know who you serve.  Your target market, the people who’ll hear and understand you, the people who’ll want your product, the people you’ll want to work with. You can’t serve everyone.  You have to pick your tribe and serve it well.

What are they doing in their lives?

When I was becoming a Reiki Master Teacher we went around our group to say who we were going to help.  One person said she was going to help all the poor people.  In that moment I knew who I was going to serve – thought leaders who were already deeply in service so that my work would support them in flying higher and touching more lives.  And that has never changed.  I don’t want to teach “beginner” anything. I want to teach conscious, exploratory thinkers.

It’s important to know who you want to serve.

Why do you want to help them?

I am really self-focused in my choices.  I love to learn.  I have a burning desire and calling to explore the spiritual realms.  So my first reason for doing anything is determined by my own love of exploring the metaphysical.

And I also have a powerful need to explain what I figure out and share that with others.  But I no longer want to teach even the beginning steps of the exploratory work I’m doing.  My need to explore and figure out is first, and that is not a particularly good marketing strategy.  But my passion and excitement is contagious and there are those who are listening and reading and absorbing what I share. And that’s what I want.

Why do you do what you do?

It’s been very revealing to be retired, to no longer be focused on doing a job for the monetary reward. I find it both indulgent and expanding.  And I move rapidly and deeply into whatever I choose to explore. My focus is on learning more about the unseen world.  Not everyone wants to know about that, but those who do read what I write.

Your passion has been with you all your life

Whatever you’re supposed to be doing in your life, you have either been doing it all along or longed to do it all along.  Sometimes a gift shows you the way. I am a writer but the gift that makes the difference is my ability to quickly see the overview and make connections that others may not be able to see.  That helps me guide people toward new insights.

Many people are reaching mid-life and taking a hard look at their level of satisfaction, find it lacking, and go start their own business, or follow a more personal calling.

Don’t be afraid to change your life, wherever you are on your path.

You never know who you’ll reach

I did a podcast interview and the person who did the interview has shared with me some of the positive responses it received.  I know nothing about those people other than their responses.  But that’s enough.  I touched some lives. I made a difference. And I have no idea what I said or what idea touched them.

We often don’t know how we touch lives.  We just have to trust that we do.

Your calling is deep within

Go into meditation.  Ask your inner self for guidance.  Ask to clarify your passion and offer suggestions for its expression.  Then go do that.

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider

Are You a Conscious Elder?

Where toy Radiate Your Inner Light

What is Your Unique Purpose?

How do You Put your Spiritual Insights to Work?

Your Gift to the Future

Where to Radiate Your Inner Light

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There’s only one thing I know that everyone can do to help balance the planet – radiate light.  And the more effortlessly we learn to do that, the stronger our light becomes.

Shine your light along the path

When we are in illumined service we walk along the path beside others and simply shine our light – to help them see their way, to perhaps shed light on some new options. But they are always on their path and we are on ours.

Whatever you do or say radiates light.

Upping your inner radiance

What about your inner radiance?  How is it doing?  If you’re angry, that dulls down your radiance.  If you’re judgmental or ignore the needs of others, your radiance will dim.

There are things we can each do to effortlessly radiate more light – it begins with our thoughts.

Begin your day with mindful intention

Create some kind of a daily, mindful ceremony in which you agree to be your best self, do your best work, and release all that doesn’t serve you in shining your light.

Once you feel you’re clear of what holds you back and take steps to release that, make conscious choices about how you’ll illuminate your day.  It may be the performance of a task.  It may be writing to a friend.  It may be holding your tongue in a tense situation.  When you become conscious, when you’re mindful of the power of your words and actions, you’ll become more selective.

Our light, the light we show the world, is a reflection of our inner consciousness  

Hmmm.  How are you perceived?  How do you perceive others?  What are your judgmental thoughts?  (Drop those).  How do you notice new places to serve? (Keep looking for those).

Your inner consciousness is who you are.  You effortlessly radiate your light, but the question is, is your inner light as bright as you think it is – or want it to be?

Awareness + Choice = Change

Awareness. First become aware of how you feel inside.  Serene, gentle, glowing, peaceful?  Those qualities will effortlessly radiate as your personal glow, your light, your being-ness.

Choice. You constantly have a choice about what you think and feel.  Notice what you choose and make those choices enhance and increase how you want to radiate in the world.

Change. Become aware of how brightly or dimly you’re radiating and choose what you’ll do to increase that radiance. The right choices will bring forth a shiny, effortless personal light.

How will you increase the radiance of your inner light today?

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

Repurpose Your Thought to Change the Outcome

How do You Put your Spiritual Insights to Work?

Your Gift to the Future

Building a Transformational Community to Heal Our World

Your Desire to Heal the World

The Guardianship We Hold

The Unfolding Vision Board

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When you choose to let your life simply unfold, can you make a “vision board”?  A vision board is a collection of pictures and words that hold your view of the future, your wish for the future, your intention for the future.

But if you let your life unfold, you really don’t vision, do you? You don’t spend time imagining “what if.”

If you don’t vision, if you don’t make conscious plans, how do you “vote” on your future? How do you make stuff happen?  You draw your future to you by your present thoughts and actions and beliefs of what is possible and what you deserve.  And all that creation of your future happens in the now, the present moment.

Monitor the present in order to direct the future

What you’re focusing on in this moment is exactly what you’re helping to gain momentum and power in the future.  If you focus on what’s not going well in your life, you’re simply attracting more of that.  To get more good stuff, we have to focus on and think about the good stuff.

Turn the negative around

I keep putting off uploading a short complete book on Amazon and iBooks.  It’s technical, I can do it, but it’s not half as much fun as making up new stuff.  I have to move the focus off how I feel and picture the positive effect my words may have on someone else’s life.  It’s selfish of me not to take those final steps. When I change my patterns and choices in the present moment, I change the outcome in the future.

I sometimes beat myself up for being such a loner.  But I can switch that vision of myself by focusing on the creative, focused, prolific productivity that being alone, working alone and having time to think alone produces.

Change how you view what you would put on your vision board

If I see my writing as being in illumined service, that shows up on my vision board as an intention to be a bright light, not a mound of dollar bills.  If I hold my regular conversations with like-minded healers as mutually supportive on my vision board, I promote growth and expansion not just a certain number of Skype calls a month.

Notice how you view the results you want on your vision board and see if they can become more expansive and inclusive.

You cannot force your vision

You cannot force a vision, but what you can do is make choices in the moment.  Make aligned choices that’ll carry you in the general direction you want to go.  The beauty is that each choice opens new doors, new side roads to explore, new opportunities you never expected.  So you don’t want a final result on your vision board, you want the flexibility and unexpectedness of simply traveling a path.

An unfolding life can still have a vision board

My vision board would show a woman traveler alone on a path carrying a lantern high.  Periodically she stops to draw a map and places it in an obvious place beside the trail so others can find it.

My vision board includes my helping spirits in the invisible world who guide me along my journey. They’re in the mist around me, ready to offer assistance.

My vision board holds side trails that tempt me to explore them.

And my path is always leading upward.

Sometimse on my vision board I turn to walk beside someone in service, to shine my light so they can better see and then take their own steps.

But there’s no end result on my vision board. No final destination. It contains only my journey – the one I’m on now and will continue to be on.  Change comes from my choices, in the moment, the choices that take me on a side path or up a hill or across a stream.

Make a vision board about your journey, not your destination.

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

Did You Over–plant?

What Life Decisions Changed Your Direction? 

What Do You Need to Leave Behind

How To Write a New Life Story  

Clean Your Inside Home 

Are You a Leader of Change?

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The world is shifting rapidly. New technology, new science, new possibilities, new expectations.  We either keep up or rapidly fall behind.

Change means constant flexibility, releasing, exploration and adaptation. And those of us who are flexible enough to see, realize and create an alternate option are being called upon to lead.

Change means flexibility

Change can be scary. It means moving out of your “comfort zone”.  It means learning new skills and embracing new beliefs.  Flexibility is the cornerstone of being a Leader for Change.

Change means releasing

In order to change, we have to let go of what we think we know and what we believe and be prepared to explore what we thought was inconceivable. As science continues to uncover new planets and deepen its understanding of how our body works and discover the relationship of man’s choices and the well-being of our planet, we have to change our minds.  We have to keep learning and shifting and keeping up.

Change is about adjusting and modifying what we think we know.  Embracing change means to be open and curious.

Change means exploration

What calls to you?  Where can you be in service?  People are training for the new technology.  They’re becoming active in the governing of their community and they actively participate in global organizations that are caring for the world. I work energetically with others all over the world to raise our collective consciousness.

Look at new opportunities.  Go where you’re called.

Change means adaptation

There are technologies that are leaving me behind.  I’m not a good texter but I can make a video. I’ve never done Instagram but I’m in Facebook communities. Find the new technology or idea that calls to you and make it your own.

Change your thinking

We have to stay flexible in both our thinking and our expectations.  What we used to believe possible is now very outdated and limiting. We cannot go back to the familiar, the comfortable, the safe. It’s obsolete, outmoded and stultifying.

There’s no way I can truly identify with the children who are 80 years younger that I am.  I did not grow up with the technology they have available now.  That very technology will color how they develop and how they see the world.  And that’ll be very different from my life experience.

But I can watch and observe.  And I can keep expanding my own service in the world and embrace some of the new technology so that I can share with others.

Be a change maker

My personal role is as an explorer and map maker of the unseen world, the spiritual experience, the esoteric concepts that run through the core of our lives.

People can serve in many ways. The knowledge that we each have to be more active in our governing process, at the local level and up, is beginning to sink in.  More women are running for office.  Young people see themselves as part of the solution.

I am active in transformational communities working to raise the collective consciousness and support light workers in all fields.

Find your place on the spectrum of change and get to work.

Whatever you do to allow change to flow though your life is perfect. Be conscious of the need to change.   Be open to new ways of being, new ways to express yourself, new ways of thinking.  And then hang on to your hat and enjoy the ride!

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

How to Effortlessly Radiate Ligh

Are You In Illumined Service?  

Choices That Create Your Future

The Guardianship We Hold 

Building a Transformational Community to Heal Our World