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(Our blog was down last night, so both Dennis and my blogs were posted on our QuattroSpace pages.)
Back problems tonight…and our regular blog posting ’site QuattroBoosters.com , is down. I hate days like this, but since I can’t sit long enough to write a lengthy entry, it’s probably okay.
Working on my website design website today…still at it. Not much else to say at this point except I am making good progress. Catch you all tomorrow. G’night.
In looking over my homework, I saw that we had to watch the movie, “Coach Carter”. I sat down with my roommate yesterday and watched it. I was fascinated with how the Coach earned the respect of the students, even though he was pushing them waaaayyy past their present level of physical training. It paid off in the first game when he had them literally run the opposing team into the ground trying to keep up with them. He taught them self-respect even before they “earned” it in how he addressed them as “Sirs”, thus helping them to recognize that they had value and would get respect and be valued by others if they earned it.
It really is a testament to the rewards of being disciplined and setting goals higher even than the minimum standards everyone else holds accountable to. I felt quite encouraged and “pumped up” after the movie to review and renew my vows to myself and see what level of excellence I can achieve personally.
How powerful is Sensei Ron Thomas’s course? So powerful it has changed everyone in this house – and I am the only one taking it. Is it because I am sharing the information with them? No, it isn’t. It is because of what I said in last night’s blog, “You change your outside world by first changing the inside world.” Now an evolution in Dennis has been triggered as well. He has decided to do what he loves, which is script writing. How awesome is that.
“Nothing happens TO us. We create it. Nothing in life happens TO you. Everything happens THROUGH you.”
Lesson for the day. Sensei Ron asks us if we believe this. Do we believe in chance? In luck?
Life happening through us, I believe it. I have been wanting more time to bead for a long time - even before starting this course. It was a strong enough desire that the Universe handed it to me on a silver platter since I wasn’t making it by being proactive. A client goes with someone else…then another…and I had already decided to let go a weekly networking luncheon that was non-productive and was costing me more than I was seeing from it.
Three things down…can you work with that; I get the feeling the Universe would ask me if it could talk directly. Want more?
No, that’s okay. Lemme see what I can do with that right now. Thanks.
“What you believe becomes your world,” a quote I am extremely fond of from the movie, “Somewhere in Time”. A desire so overpowering it draws a man back 70 years into the past to find the woman he loves. An amazing story and a great lesson for us about the power of belief. Is it any less amazing than a person nearly killed in a plane crash that has no hope of getting off a respirator or life support system, tells doubting doctors he will walk by Christmas? They don’t believe it, but it isn’t their belief that is needed. With nothing else to do while laying there paralyzed, a real-life man in a real case history literally wills his life and body to put itself back together so that he does indeed walk out of that hospital without a respirator or life support help.
So yes, I did ask for this to happen in a way. It would have been nice if it had happened a little gentler than it did, but I forgot to include that part in my request.
I am actually kind of excited. I have wanted a Celtic harp for forever now. There is no way I can afford one, but somewhere around the 2nd or 3rd week of the course, I realized I haven’t gotten one before now because I wasn’t making time in my life to play it, even if I had one. Now time is freeing up, now we’ll see. I have to be careful because now I know the Universe is listening. Ron said about 3 weeks ago that I wasn’t making much of a vibration in the universe to be noticed. Guess that problem’s solved. Man, I better watch it now.
I’m sorry, there will be no blog tonight. My heart wouldn’t be in the project, and I feel strongly that quality wins out over quantity. Instead, please have a laugh on me and check out this hilarious YouTube Channel I was introduced to by my dearest friend Kristen.
The Channel is called, Simon’s cat, at “http://www.youtube.com/user/simonscat“. It had me on the floor, it was so hysterical! And tune in tomorrow for a return to my regular blog. Thank you.
I finshed up the bottle I was working on. I’m tenatively calling it the “lilac bottle” since the focal bead on it’s surface is a lilac. It turn out so pretty, I was amazed. Everyone in the house loves it, too.
I consulted my artistic border about what colors to use in the strap. After looking over quite a few bead magazines and finding only one or two possibilities that inspired me for the strap, I remembered I have some silk ribbon cord in my studio. The colors are very unique in this bottle…rose, a carribbean blue and a muted, kermit green. I pulled what I had – two forest green ribbons with a stripe of dark rose running down the middle, the rose being very slightly different shades between the two candidates. The only other ribbon remotely near the colors was a slightly brighter than my beads kermit green.
Our roomie has an amazing eye for color and she said all three could work. Putting them together and wrapping them loosely around each other, I could see she was right, and proceeded to braid them. The two muted ones let only a hint of too-green color show, which tones it down and looks awesome. The braiding is done, tacking it in place with some hand sewing is done, too. Now all I have to do to finish it and the bottle completely is attach the cord, sew on coordinating beads and it’s ready for the art show.
After a day of getting used to the new tasks, assignments & rewriting my goals, a clarifying email from Sensei Ron and some time to meditate on things, I have more confidence now that this won’t be as impossible as I originally thought it would. In fact, I am glad for the opportunity of it because I want, know and need to do this. I have gone through file purging of my desk often in the past (especially during a Mercury Retrograde), but not after I went through as major a mental purging as the Foundation I course left me with.
I am starting out “small”…clean the files off the desk, clean the family room in the house and we’ll see what that leaves me feeling. If I notice a similarity to the feeling I get when we are on vacation and in a hotel room, I will know it is working. Why do I say this? Because when I am in a hotel room, it is very sparse and uncluttered and I feel a great, mental “relief” in the spartan purity of such an environment.
I will let you know tomorrow night what this does for me, even though I gave myself a deadline of finishing this project by Sunday, I want to do it as quickly as possible and keep on the track of my evolution and advancement…maybe I’ll even reward myself tomorrow if I get done early enough. I haven’t sat down with a good book since the beginning two weeks of this course…
Signing off and Good Night all.
It seems like I knew this was coming. Two days ago I had blogged about how much desk paperwork and projects I had thrown out and I was all proud of myself. Now, after getting my new marching orders from the 1st call in Sensei Ron Thomas’s Foundation II Course, this is part of what he is asking us to look at…what are we hanging on to that we have from the past, and what are we hanging on to the we think will be useful in the future. I have gone through this “paperwork purging” many times in the past to keep projects fresh and my desk from overflowing. Now I have even more incentive to do it again and this time be more brutal about it. It’s all for the cause, I am reminding myself…
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