Well, I was so surprised to receive several unsolicited emails and comments about my blog, from people I didn't even know! I don't even think Julie (from Julie and Julia) did as well the first week :-) Thank you so much for the encouragement! It was so unexpected, but so very much appreciated.
Wow, magic was really happening this past week ~ it was extraordinary! I'm studying with two of the top life and wealth coaches ~ Harrison Klein of The Masters Gathering and the Alignment Factor; and Bob Proctor, whom just about everyone knows. The further I integrate their teachings, the deeper I go into the places within me that up to now wouldn't support my living large. Earlier this week, I was driving home, came to a stoplight and just started bawling. I had to pull off to the side of the road. I was feeling such intense gratitude for where I was and for the opportunities that were opening up to me - that I was CREATING! I found that I had reached a level of such certainty that I had never ever experienced in my life before. I was Certain that I AM creating anything I desire, that it is truly already here. My desire to travel and teach is here! I also felt, for the first time in my life, a deep sense of safety, a letting go of 51 years of fear, low grade depression, and the constant "vigilence" I have felt since returning to Indianapolis and living with my parents. The message I got, and I posted it on my Facebook page that day, is "DREAM BIG! Your dream is already realized! Write it! Imagine it! Have reasons for it - the more reasons the juicier it is! Visit it OFTEN! The Universe wants you to have it...and you DESERVE it!"
I haven't quite reached the level of self-confidence I feel I need to call up nationally or globally-known sound healers and say "Hey, you've never heard of me but I'd love to collaborate with you." But I'm getting close. This past week, after several synchronistic emails from individuals I know around the US, I began laying the groundwork for what I fondly call my "US tour," traveling and teaching Sound workshops, offering meditations and collaborations with other sound healers. I have three events now tentatively scheduled in key areas for after the New Year. I contacted several local printers requesting quotes for printing costs of my card deck. My Sacred Voice process got the attention of a well-known someone who is integrating it into what they teach. I looked into studio space rental at a local recording studio for the CD I am starting working on. And several potentially lucrative income streams came forward that will easily take care of my needs on a part-time basis. Freeing up the rest of my time for creation of my goals! All of the particulars I have been asking for. I just needed to know that I CAN HAVE THIS before the doors could open.
And not to forget, I spent an hour or so online looking at real estate in Sedona, AZ and dreaming about my multimillion dollar house that I am acquiring, now, even as I type this...
Now this may all sound a bit lame to some. But every little bit of it is laying the groundwork for what I desire to bring in - each little step is sending a BIG and POWERFUL message to the Universe that I mean business. I AM acting differently, I AM shifting my thoughts from "I can't do that..." to "I AM DOING THIS!" This counts BIG! As Harrison Klein says, the five steps to manifestation are "be, think speak, act, receive." And that is exactly what I AM doing. Get the process down, watch your thoughts, KNOW WITH CERTAINTY, and baddabing, baddabang, baddaboom, you are there!
And let's certainly not forget another key ingredient, prepaving - a 'la Elizabeth Fayt. Every morning, before I even get out of bed, I spend five-ten minutes thinking about everything in my life, and how grateful I AM for every single thing. John di Martini talked about this in The Secret and I have to admit for a long time I thought it was a bit hokey. Not anymore. Gratitude is the wellspring of everything good and magical in our lives. And after feeling gratitude for everything I have, then I prepave my day. Prepaving is essentially stating how my day is going to unfold. One of my favorite things to say, which Elizabeth talks about in her book, is, "Something wonderful is happening today," because that opens things up to the Universe to bring to me the next wonderful thing I desire. I have also prepaved for my Dad, whom we are ready to move into a Memory Care Unit for Alzheimer's patients. A specific prepaving one day was that "he is passing his assessment and is accepted into the Memory Care Unit," and that "he has found a way to contribute again to society." Not long after, while at my sister's office, we received the call that he had been accepted, and they are looking into the possibility that he can offer lectures on medieval history, his passion for the last 10 years!
I'm involved in a couple of groups of people andwe're very busy creating various endeavors, and in one of the groups we now take 5-10 minutes at the end of every conference call and connect up, go into meditation and create our prepavings for the next week. I AM a true believer in the power of prepaving. It works!
All in all, it was a most excellent week and I AM so excited about what tomorrow is bringing, because I AM certain it is even more wonderful and profound than today. I have my list of goals (the list topping over 200 goals, with many more to come) and I'm all set. Let's rock n' roll & I'll see you all in another week with more magical happenings.
Om Shanti!
Mindy
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Sunday, August 23, 2009
What Does It Take to Create A Successful Global Spiritual Business?
What does it take to create a successful spiritual business in Indianapolis? Better yet, what does it take to create a successful global spiritual entity ~~ from nothing?
Seeing how I've been trying to do just that since September, 2008, when I uprooted myself from my growing soon-to-be-thriving alternative healing practice in Boulder and moved back to Indianapolis, I can tell you exactly how NOT to do it. Lists of things NOT to do.
Spirituality is BIG right now. Starting with The Secret in 2006, and now more spiritual life coaches that you can blink at. Bob Proctor, John Assaraf, John di Martini, Harrison Klein, Jennifer Hough - these are the ones front and center now. I admire and study with a couple of them myself and their coaching has been so helpful for me.
And as I've been looking at the spiritual environment in Indianapolis trying to see where my work might fit, the spiritual marketplace and some of the "successful" local healers feel largely "competitive." This is from personal observation and personal experience, with conversational confirmation from other local healers whom I know and trust. And a shock to experience this first-hand, having come from Boulder, the cooperative capital of the US.
Competition is not a place within me that I will go to. Never have and never will.
Wallace Wattles, author of "The Science of Getting Rich" wrote the following about competition,
"You must get rid of the thought of competition. You are to create, not to compete for what is already created. You do not have to take anything away from anyone. You do not have to drive sharp bargains...You are to become a creator, not a competitor; you are going to get what you want, but in such a way that when you get it every other man will have more than he has now."
And as a Sound Therapist and performer, creator of spiritually-based events and spiritual tools, I don't have time to coach others ~ I'm too busy coaching myself and getting the help of some of these masters to help me, because to be perfectly honest, I'm feeling a bit lost in this geographic neck of the woods. Trying to ground my energy here has been like trying to ground myself in molasses.
Sometimes an individual's calling, such as mine, is so cutting edge that it's heard of by maybe only fifty or a hundred individuals worldwide at the most. Those in the know are understandably jazzed by it, because they know the potential for good that will come from it. However, taking that calling, that purpose, where there is a very small market for it locally, to a "global" level? THAT is the challenge I'm rising to now. For me it is my heart life. It is a driving force to share this and not having much opportunity to do so since being in Indianapolis has been very challenging. My focus has been on other things up until recently, and the venues and opportunities to share what I do have been minimal. Thinking about it though, I do have a global enterprise in that I have connected with others around the world through my work. But it isn't how I envision it - it isn't yet "there."
I was recently invited to host a web talk radio program on Sound Healing on VoiceAmerica talk radio. That jazzed me so much! I thought "FINALLY! Here is a way to get the word out." I already have the guests all lined up. What I need now are advertisers and sponsors. The goal is to have the first year paid for and have THE most popular show on this site. If it does well, it could lead to streaming webcasts from Sacred Sites around the world. What better way to educate the world about Sound and everything that it does - from relaxation to shattering cancer cells? But there have been a lot of explicit"no's" from people and businesses I've humbly approached to back it. And I know that is part of the journey too.
I'm taking you on my creative journey as it unfolds. The challenge (a la "Julie and Julia"): By next June 30, 2010 I AM (NOW ALREADY!) living in the Southwest, most likely Sedona, and traveling GLOBALLY ~ teaching and performing, CDs, creating spectacular meditative pieces of artwork for installations and major healing centers around the world. Card deck selling globally. And more. That gives me 10 months. In the meantime, I need to put all of this in place plus create income streams to support me. And you will keep me honest in this! Check back weekly as I re-create the "new global" me!
Om Shanti!
Mindy
Seeing how I've been trying to do just that since September, 2008, when I uprooted myself from my growing soon-to-be-thriving alternative healing practice in Boulder and moved back to Indianapolis, I can tell you exactly how NOT to do it. Lists of things NOT to do.
Spirituality is BIG right now. Starting with The Secret in 2006, and now more spiritual life coaches that you can blink at. Bob Proctor, John Assaraf, John di Martini, Harrison Klein, Jennifer Hough - these are the ones front and center now. I admire and study with a couple of them myself and their coaching has been so helpful for me.
And as I've been looking at the spiritual environment in Indianapolis trying to see where my work might fit, the spiritual marketplace and some of the "successful" local healers feel largely "competitive." This is from personal observation and personal experience, with conversational confirmation from other local healers whom I know and trust. And a shock to experience this first-hand, having come from Boulder, the cooperative capital of the US.
Competition is not a place within me that I will go to. Never have and never will.
Wallace Wattles, author of "The Science of Getting Rich" wrote the following about competition,
"You must get rid of the thought of competition. You are to create, not to compete for what is already created. You do not have to take anything away from anyone. You do not have to drive sharp bargains...You are to become a creator, not a competitor; you are going to get what you want, but in such a way that when you get it every other man will have more than he has now."
And as a Sound Therapist and performer, creator of spiritually-based events and spiritual tools, I don't have time to coach others ~ I'm too busy coaching myself and getting the help of some of these masters to help me, because to be perfectly honest, I'm feeling a bit lost in this geographic neck of the woods. Trying to ground my energy here has been like trying to ground myself in molasses.
Sometimes an individual's calling, such as mine, is so cutting edge that it's heard of by maybe only fifty or a hundred individuals worldwide at the most. Those in the know are understandably jazzed by it, because they know the potential for good that will come from it. However, taking that calling, that purpose, where there is a very small market for it locally, to a "global" level? THAT is the challenge I'm rising to now. For me it is my heart life. It is a driving force to share this and not having much opportunity to do so since being in Indianapolis has been very challenging. My focus has been on other things up until recently, and the venues and opportunities to share what I do have been minimal. Thinking about it though, I do have a global enterprise in that I have connected with others around the world through my work. But it isn't how I envision it - it isn't yet "there."
I was recently invited to host a web talk radio program on Sound Healing on VoiceAmerica talk radio. That jazzed me so much! I thought "FINALLY! Here is a way to get the word out." I already have the guests all lined up. What I need now are advertisers and sponsors. The goal is to have the first year paid for and have THE most popular show on this site. If it does well, it could lead to streaming webcasts from Sacred Sites around the world. What better way to educate the world about Sound and everything that it does - from relaxation to shattering cancer cells? But there have been a lot of explicit"no's" from people and businesses I've humbly approached to back it. And I know that is part of the journey too.
I'm taking you on my creative journey as it unfolds. The challenge (a la "Julie and Julia"): By next June 30, 2010 I AM (NOW ALREADY!) living in the Southwest, most likely Sedona, and traveling GLOBALLY ~ teaching and performing, CDs, creating spectacular meditative pieces of artwork for installations and major healing centers around the world. Card deck selling globally. And more. That gives me 10 months. In the meantime, I need to put all of this in place plus create income streams to support me. And you will keep me honest in this! Check back weekly as I re-create the "new global" me!
Om Shanti!
Mindy
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Posts
