After devoting countless hours to the labor of love that is this blog, I have decided to redirect my energy away from it.  Over the last few weeks, I have been maintaining this blog (marginally) along with my new site, Up From Splat, and my other hobby blog, The Joyful Springer.  I have come to accept that this is more than I want to do.

Because all of what I write about on Up From Splat is law of attraction based, and much of it focuses on getting easy, the power of the mind, and focus, my efforts there and here are a trifle redundant.  I began to realize a couple weeks ago that my posts here felt more like obligation than inspiration.

Unlike this blog, Up From Splat was designed to become an income producing business over time.  Even so, I’m committed to providing quality content, and anything that I recommend or sell on the site will be offered as a resource for creating the life you desire.

I thank you for your loyal readership here.  I appreciate you!  I’d be delighted if you follow me to Up From Splat and subscribe to receive blog updates.  I will strive to offer information and ideas that support you in your law of attraction-aware fun life journey.

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A couple weeks ago, I joined Good Vibe University (GVU).  Some of you I know are already members.  If you aren’t, you’ll want to watch the video below to learn more about this great resource.

Fast Tube by Casper

Take advantage of the $1 three-week trial membership to Good Vibe University.

My $1 has already gotten me a couple hundred times that in value.

As part of what Jeannette calls The Money Party, GVU member Kim Falconer gave free astrological chart readings focusing on the vibe of money to interested members.  Kim did my chart, and although astrology isn’t my thing, her insights were spot on, and she offered me some powerful ideas to help me shift my alignment on the subject of money.

Another member who is an intuitive offered free half-hour sessions to discuss business goals and vibrations, and I’m scheduled to talk with her next week.  This is a fantastic, valuable support for what I’m doing.

If you’re not already a GVU member, I hope you’ll check it out.  If you do, I’ll see you on the forum.

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Yes, I know I keep talking about my dogs.  But when you live with a being who spends all day everyday in the Vortex, if you don’t pay attention to her attitudes and actions, you’re just plain dumb.  Who wouldn’t want to emulate pure joy?

One of Tim’s jobs requires him to work until 2 a.m. a couple nights a week.  I’ve found that it’s easier for me to go with the flow of his schedule and adjust mine to his rather than to try and resist it (as in all areas of life).  So last night, I was awake when he called me at 2:15 to tell me the car wouldn’t start.  He wasn’t sure whether the problem was the battery or something more serious, but we had to at least try to give it a jump.

Expect Fun

Ducky and I had been lounging in bed, and I was so attired.  When I got up to pull on pants and a shirt and slip on shoes, Ducky perked up.  These were “going out actions,” and we never go out this time of night.  You could see in her bright-eyed scrutiny that she was wondering, “What’s up?”  Her whole body quivered in exuberant expectation.

When I grabbed my wallet and keys and said, “Come on,” Ducky leaped in the air, whirled in a circle, and began vigorously wagging her tail.

You could just hear her:  “ALL RIGHT!  A ride!!!”

Her enthusiasm catapulted her into the garage and up into the 4Runner.  She licked me joyfully when I got in, and then she stuck her head out the window to investigate the night air as I backed out of the garage.

Reroute Old Programming

I wasn’t all that thrilled with the fact that the car wouldn’t start.  My mind, its old programming so easily dropped into a negative groove, started chattering:  “What if we need a new battery?  What if it’s worse than that?  Figures.  We just got a little extra money, and now we’ll have to spend it on the car.”

Luckily, in spite of this old programming, I have new programming that immediately recognizes the old programming.  I caught this rickety train and threw the switch on it:  “I’m sure the battery is fine.  We just had it checked a couple months ago.  We just need to jump it and charge it up and it will be fine.”

About this time, Ducky bounded into the front and sat down in the passenger seat, her ears perked, her gaze curiously scanning her surroundings.  She was buzzing with happy energy.  I was reminded to look for positive aspects:  “Well, Ducky’s happy, and it’s nice to be out in the fresh night air.  It smells great.  The headlights look pretty reflected on the rain-slicked streets.  It’s a good thing Tim works so close to home.  I’m glad we have jumper cables.”

When we arrived at the gas station/convenience store where Tim works (about a minute from our house—most days he rides his bike, but it was stormy last night), Ducky spotted her Daddy and exploded into paroxysms of ecstasy.  The SUV could barely contain her squeaks, wiggles, and wags.

Tim greeted her then hooked up the jumper cables.  He started up the car.  I followed him home. On the way, Ducky wagged some more and eagerly sniffed the air again.

When we got home, she went into full spazz mode, leaping and arrwooing and wagging.  You could hear her: “Wheeeee, we had an adventure.  It was so fun!  Now we’re home.  Isn’t that wonderful?” She was as happy to be back as she had been to leave ten minutes before.

The Three Keys To An Adventure Attitude

Now, of course, I know that Ducky had no context for this middle-of-the-night ride.  She didn’t know what car trouble was.  All she knew was something out of the ordinary was happening, and it would probably be fun.  Her perspective and behavior, though, create a blueprint for living in the vortex.

1.  Attach no meaning to the situation.

Most of our life experiences could be experienced as adventure if we left our “meaning” behind.  Instead of “dealing with car trouble,” I got a chance to see Ocean Shores at 2:30 in the morning, which isn’t something I generally do.

Anything can be shifted this way.  Instead of “just going to the store,” you can see what fun new things you spot in that great place that has such an abundance of food or you can go exuberantly hunting for bargains.  Instead of “just cleaning the house,” you can celebrate your surroundings by relishing all your precious belongings and giving them the care they need.

We turn things into mundane activities, or worse, problems by the way we think about them. When you wipe away negative expectations and the old stories you have about certain activities, you open yourself up for adventure.

2.  Celebrate spontaneity.

We tend to think of “not as we planned” as bad.  What if we did the opposite? What if we rejoiced in all surprises and life’s twists and turns?  Seeing the unexpected as something to get excited about would turn life into a grand adventure.

3.  Look for something fun in every experience.

As deliberate creators who know how important it is to be aligned with our nonphysical selves and how crucial it is to get and stay in the Vortex of good feeling if we want pleasant experiences to come our way, we understand the value of fun.  Many of us who live in awareness of law of attraction go looking for fun things to do.  But do we look for the fun in all things we do?

We often miss opportunities for fun by getting in a chore-like or “must do” mentality.  When faced with a situation that isn’t intended to be a kick in the pants, we fall into a plodding sort of attitude.  We go through the motions of chores like heading out in the middle of the night to jump a car battery.

But all of these experiences have a spark (excuse the pun) of fun or at least of something positive.  If we get into our inner kid place or take on a joyful puppy persona, we can find the fun in something as simple as the fresh smell of night air.

Instead of going out of our way to find happy adventures in life, we can just allow all of life to BE a happy adventure.  Ducky ever-so-eagerly showed me how last night.

And the result of that adventure mentality?  Today, we borrowed my parents’ battery charger and charged up the battery, and now the car is fine.  A happy attitude creates happy endings.

How about you?  What adventures are you having today?

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A year ago today, my beloved 17 year old Springer Spaniel, Muggins, passed away.  When we left her lifeless body at the vet, I didn’t think I’d have the strength to draw another breath.  It was as if all the air in the universe had been sucked away.

Passage Through Grief

On this day a year ago, I felt sadness, grief, and despair of such intensity that all the words in the world can’t describe it.  “How do I get through the next minute?” I asked Tim through my tears.

“I don’t know,” he said.

The way I got through the next moment was to release my connection with the world, with thinking, with planning.  I became a feeling, instinctual being.  I did what my body and my inner self told me to do.  Move your feet and shuffle to the car.  Drive to the ocean and be on the beach where Muggins spent many of her most joyful moments.  Go home and sit on the sofa.

I was like a helpless child being led by the wise, gentle hand of my nonphysical self.  Do this.  Now do this.  Now do this.

When we got home, still numb and acting on mindless whims, I sent an e-mail to the breeder, Lynn, from whom I got Muggins 17 years before.  I thanked her for the precious gift of Muggins, for all the wondrous days of love and joy I shared with this amazing dog. I told her of Muggins’ death and told her that I’d like to know when she was going to breed another litter.  I would never replace Muggins, of course, but Muggins got me hooked on Springer spaniels, and I knew I wanted another one in my life.

I sent the e-mail with no expectation or agenda, but an hour later, Lynn replied.  She praised me for the wonderful care and love I’d given Muggins, as evidenced by her unusually long life (Springers generally live to be 12 to 14 years old).  She also told me that though she had no plans for a litter, she knew of a “fine puppy” available now. The breeders were excellent, she said, and she had already called them and highly recommended me.  She gave me their e-mail address.

We hadn’t planned on getting a puppy so quickly after Muggins’ death.  Still acting on autopilot, though, I asked Tim if he was ready for me to e-mail the new breeder.  He said he was.

New Focus, New Feeling

To shorten up this story, the next day, Tim and I drove to Port Orchard and bought Ducky from Sally and Warren Wattenbarger.  Just like that, we had a new dog to love and also new friends (Sally and I have gotten to know each other as I’ve kept her up to date with Ducky’s new home life).

If you’ve been reading this blog for long, you know how important Ducky is to me.  In an instant of bonding with warm, freckle-faced love, I went from despair to joy.  One small shift in focus created a massive change in being.

Right now, Ducky is stretched out next to me, her steady, even breathing reminding me of the continuation of life and love.  Ducky is evidence of the continual flow of energy in our universe.  She’s proof that we are never stagnant, never stuck.

Even as Muggins’ energy shifted form from physical to nonphysical, Ducky’s energy flowed into my life.  Even as I felt caught in a trap of pain that seemed endless, the universe was moving me toward greater joy than I’d felt in some time.

The Dance Of Joy

The day after Muggins died, a few hours before we went to get Ducky, I was up very early, trying to survive another moment and another moment and another moment.  I got out my mp3 player, put on my earphones, and started dancing in the living room.  An odd thing to do maybe, but my inner being told me to do it, so I did.

I danced with tears cascading down my cheeks.  And as I danced, I looked up and saw the plaque hanging above the pantry door in our kitchen:  “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass.  It’s about learning to dance in the rain.”

I shifted my gaze to a framed picture of Muggins, and I said, “I’m dancing, Muggins.  See?  I’m dancing.”

It’s the dancing that moves us from despair to joy.  And it’s the dancing that brings even more joy after that.

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Since I began studying Abraham-Hicks’ teachings and the law of attraction, my parents and friends have been baffled by much of what I have come to believe.  “It defies logic,” my step-dad insists.

I’ll admit that sometimes I agree.

We were all raised in such a physical world full of facts and reality, that it’s a leap of faith to live in the world of energy, trusting that what we can’t see is determining the way our life unfolds.

Logical Data

As a former attorney, indoctrinated into the world of logic by the esteemed Marshall-Wythe School of Law, I often hear my left brain clamoring for logical explanations about how our thoughts can impact the physical world.

So I’m always happy when I stumble over some bit of “logic,” some “scientific” data that confirms what my right brain and my inner knowing have accepted to be true.  This last week, I came across an article that profoundly impressed my left brain.  The article was about the effect of stress on our genes.  According to the Science Daily article, Dr. Klaus Hansen’s group at BRIC, University of Copenhagen, has just shown that stress-activating factors can control genes by turning on certain genes that were supposed to be silenced.

So what does that have to do with law of attraction?

Trump Card

Think about it.

Law of attraction and vibrational energy doubters like my sometimes persistent left brain, think that unmeasurable, nonphysical, isn’t-seen energy can’t affect the physical world.  This study shows that it can indeed affect the physical world.

If stress can trump our genes, thus affecting our physiology, doesn’t that prove that the physical can be formed and transformed by thought and unseen energy?

I sure think so.

If you hear a whooping sound, that’s my right brain doing a victory dance.  It’s delightful to have what I intuitively know be confirmed in a way that my logical brain can understand.

Sometimes, our own lives don’t give us as much “evidence” as we’d like to support the power of our thought, or rather, feeling and focus energy.  When this happens, we need to be open to receiving confirmation from other sources.  Every bit of evidence we see makes it that much easier to monitor our feelings and thoughts and reach for a better vibration.

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I’m in the process of carving myself a new body.  Others call this losing weight.  However, I’ve lost weight in the past.  I always found it again.  So enough with the losing.  Now I’m carving.

I’ve carved away 18 pounds so far.  I have a long way to go, but I’ve created a journey that’s comfortable for me (no pushing myself to do more exercise than feels right now, no extreme eating plan), so I know I can stay on this road.

Part of the carving process required me to make peace with my current size.  Especially since I was doing videos for Up From Splat (the last time I was in front of a camera, I was 150 pounds lighter than I am now), I had to fully allow that this is me and that this me is a worthy, wonderful me.

In a society that abhors obesity, this has been a challenge.  But I did it.  I did it by reminding myself that everything I am is the starting place of all that I am creating.

I got so excited about really taking this in that I wrote an e-book about it.  Then an analogy popped into my head, and I created this video to go with the e-book that I decided to give away (if you’ve seen the video on Up From Splat already, forgive the duplication).

Fast Tube by Casper

The day after I uploaded the above video, I saw this Abraham quote:

“How do I make peace with sickness? How do I make peace with being lonely? How do I make peace with less than what I want? How do I make peace with it?  We think you can use the logic that you’ve gathered up here with us now and say “It’s easy to make peace with that, because that, in all it has been, and even all that it now is, … it created the most advanced vibrational version of YOU! It created the potential, emphatically satisfied manifestational possibilities. But what it really created was the new marker, the new reaching place. It created an Inner Being, a God force, that is swirling in energy and calling you. It created Life. It created Calling. It created momentum. It created enthusiasm. It created adventure! It created the reason to be.  It created the reason to be alive. It created LIFE! In other words, it is so much bigger than what it was. And that is pretty easy to make peace with!”

That about says it all, don’t you think?

If you’d like to go further with this, read The Good Egg Manifesto.

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A couple days ago, I wrote about my experience with finding a solution to Facebook group mass invites.  Today, I’m taking that topic a little further.

Since I started my new Up From Splat site, I’ve been besieged by “problems.”  Every step of the way, I’ve encountered roadblocks and glitches.

If you’ve ever set up a blog, you know how challenging it can be to work with the code and the plugins and the widgets and get everything set up the way you want.  When you combine that with autoresponders and download links and video creation and video uploads, you have a lot of technical hurdles to jump.

I’m a writer not a techie.  All this stuff is new to me.

The old, old me, the pre-law-of-attraction-savvy-me would have torn my hair out and given up on the process long before I got as far as I have.  I’m happy to say that I not only have all my hair but I’m still plugging along too—quite contentedly.

You see, I don’t even bother to see the problems as problems anymore.  I see them as prompts for solution.

Heed The Sound Of The Buzzer

When your dryer buzzer goes off, do you think you have a problem?  More than likely not.  You think of the buzzer as a prompt that reminds you to take the clothes out and fold them.

A negative shift in perception could easily make the dryer buzzer a problem.  It means that you now have the “challenge” of interrupting whatever else you’re doing and fold clothes.

This sounds silly, of course.  But if you think about it, this is what we do when “problems” appear in our lives.

We call a flat tire a problem.  We call illness a problem.  We call lack of money a problem.

And they can be problems if we persist in seeing them that way.  They can also just be prompts.

Each of these situations is a nudge to turn toward a preferable situation.  It’s kind of like bad breath.

Bad breath can be a problem.  Or it can be a nudge to brush your teeth.

Creating my new website brought up so many so-called problems that I didn’t have time to see them as problems.  Everything that came up triggered a clear desire within me of how I wanted the site to be.  Then I would say, “There’s a way to do this.”  And I’d start poking at code or doing Google searches until the solution appeared in front of me.  Or sometimes I’d just walk away and when I came back, the solution slipped right into place.

Manifesting The Answer

Abraham explains this process better than I can:

“Do you know that when you are moving through life and a problem is coming into focus – do you know that in the moment that the problem is coming into focus the solution, an equivalent solution is coming into focus too? Do you know that? That’s such an important thing to know. When a question is formulating so is the answer. But, if you are of the frequency of the question or of the problem you cannot be of the frequency of the answer or the solution. You can’t be on both frequencies at the same time.

“We think that it will be helpful to you to understand that the equivalent solutions are brewing with the equivalent problems. And you can get so good at living so real time in this vortex by reaching for thoughts of optimism and thoughts of appreciation and thoughts of love.  You can be so in sync with the vibration of who you really are that as a problem is coming into focus the solution is too and you can be so good at living real time that you don’t even ever know that the problem happened because the solution happened at the same time.”

I’m getting closer and closer to being so in sync that solutions roll right in along with problems … at least in some areas of my life.  And if that can happen in some areas, it can happen in the rest.

Remember Neo’s line in The Matrix: “There is no spoon.”?

Well, here’s a better one for you:  “There is no problem.”

You can see problems, or you can see prompts.

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We all know that the first step to feeling good is getting easy with what is.  We must accept where we are if we want to move on from an unpleasant reality.

We know it.  But sometimes, it’s a bit of a challenge to do what we know we must do.

Last week, I was all ready to reveal my new website, Up From Splat.  I was jazzed. I’d churned out that website from the Vortex of tuned in and turned on energy, and I was more excited about it than I’d been about any other project I’ve done in the last several months.  I was sure I was on the verge of great things because I already felt like I’d achieved those great things.

So imagine my amazement when, on the very day I was going to announce the new site here on this blog and on Facebook, the site mysteriously was deleted from our server.  Gone.

Shock And Awe

My first reaction was shock.

I was in awe of what appeared to be a cosmic joke.  My site about getting up from life’s splats had just gone SPLAT.  Very funny, Universe.

I went from there to deep sadness.  My next reaction was fury.  I reminded myself to reach for peace, and I meditated.

Then I returned to fury.

I moved a little further up the emotional scale via pizza and a nice red wine.  (I think pizza and wine might need a permanent place on Abraham-Hicks’ emotional scale—perhaps between anger and discouragement.)

What in the bleepity bleep happened, I asked Tim when he got home from work.  He had been transferring some files to our server, and the site disappeared after that.  He didn’t know; so he called the people at our server, and they didn’t know either.

I dropped back to rage.  I had these fantasies of destroying everything in my house.  I had a burning need to break things.  I didn’t indulge the desire.

I moved up to discouragement again.

It took me three days to move up to hopefulness then positive expectation and finally to eagerness.  I threw in some appreciation for Tim’s help.  He had tried to retrieve parts of the site, but it couldn’t be done.  He was able to capture bits of the html code, though, which made my rebuilding process easier.

Finally, from a place of acceptance, I started rebuilding my site.  It took 16 hours of solid work.

In the middle of that 16 hours, I discovered something.  The site, which I’d thought was ready to reveal to the world, had a major glitch.  Some of the pages weren’t accessible by anyone but me.  I didn’t know that because I could get to the pages so I assumed anyone could.  If I’d revealed the site before solving that problem, I would have had a big mess on my hands.

Aha!

What at first had seemed like a BAD thing, had become a good thing.  Redoing the site had brought a big problem to my attention.

When the site disappeared, all I could see was the fact that my work was trashed and I was going to have to do it over.  I couldn’t get past that.

That’s a pretty normal reaction to setbacks.  The way we see our life is sort of like looking at a radar screen.  We can only see what’s on the screen, and the screen is only a puny part of the universe’s expansiveness.  So I could see that my site was deleted and that seemed to be BAD, but I couldn’t see how the deleted site might serve me. That part was off my screen.

In order to be okay with whatever apparent “badness” comes our way, we must remind ourselves that we have a very small radar screen.  Just as the radar operator who is looking at a radar display of a 500 mile radius can’t say for sure that there’s nothing within 2000 miles, we can’t say for sure that what we’re experiencing is bad … or good, for that matter.

When we can remember that, it’s a lot easier to get easy about what is.

Have you ever had something that seemed really lousy turn into something awesome?  Tell us the story.  The more bad to brilliant stories we hear (with heavy emphasis on the brilliant part), the easier it will be to remember that our radar screen is tiny indeed.

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Last week, I wrote about what to do if what you want isn’t here yet.  Today, I want you to think about this question:  What if it IS here and you just can’t see it?

We bought a new mattress a year and a half ago.  It was a memory foam mattress we put on top of a sealed wood platform that Tim build.

Here But Hidden

We loved the mattress at first.  Then it began to sag.  It broke down within a few months.  We called Costco and they said they’d come and get it (you gotta love Costco), and we ordered a different mattress to replace the one that didn’t hold up.

The day the pick-up company was supposed to show up, we took the mattress off the platform to move it to the garage.  I was shocked to discover that under my side of the mattress, a huge wet spot was mildewing on the mattress and on the platform.  Tim’s side was fine.

The reason for the spot isn’t really important—but if you’re curious, I was having major night sweats during those months, and memory foam mattresses generate more body heat.  We think I basically sweated through the mattress.

For all that time, I’d been sleeping on a big, mildewed water stain.  It was less than 10 inches from me, and I couldn’t see it.  It was right there, but if you’d have asked me if I slept on a mildewed wet spot, I would have confidently told you I did not.

You Can’t See The Energy

All physical manifestations—experiences and things—exist in energy form before they take physical form.  We can’t see that energy.

Just like we can’t see the radio waves that bring us our FM stations or the waves that bring us TV and cell phone service, the energy that creates our world is there but not visible.  It’s no less real just because we can’t see it.  Radio waves are real all the way from the station to our stereos even though they don’t seem to be real to us until the music hits our ears.

Every single thing you want begins to form on an energetic plane the moment you conceive of it.  All you have to do is allow it.

It might be just inches from you, so close you could touch it if you knew it was there.  But then you start asking why what you want isn’t here.  You feel like the character, Anya, from the Buffy the Vampire TV series when she says, “I’m trying to be patient, but it’s taking too long.”

The second you ask that question … BOOM.  Your creation, which could be seconds from taking physical form, retreats back into energy.  Here but hidden.

That big wet spot has been a big deal in my life.  Every time I’m tempted to say, “Where is my …….?” I remember that spot.  I remember that what I want is RIGHT HERE.  I already have it.  I’m sleeping on it.  I’m living with it.  It’s here.

For those of you who care—I don’t have a wet spot under my mattress anymore (I checked).  The new mattress (different brand) has been great, and I’ve discovered a cool herbal supplement that has left me night-sweat-free.  And that was a creation that was in my reality on the nonphysical level far before it landed in my physical experience.

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For most of this year, I’ve been rudderless.  With no way of steering, I’ve manually paddled in one direction then another … my gaze on the horizon, seeking work that feels right and could produce a steady income.

All my paddling, though earnest, has been desultory.  That’s not surprising.  When you don’t have a destination, you don’t have much incentive to put your back into it.

Who can be productive like this?  Not me.

Here’s how I went from drifting aimlessly to gleefully churning through inspired actions that are lighting me up like pulsing neon and how you can do the same

1.  Let Go

After all that aimless effort, finally, a couple months ago, I let go of the oars and let my boat go where it would.

In real life, the way this looked was a lot of time reading, walking Ducky, visiting with my parents, doing things around the house, writing blog posts when the mood struck, messing around on Ducky’s Facebook page, taking naps, doing more reading.  Once in awhile, the gotta-do-something part of my brain would kick in, and I’d push at this project or that, always with no enjoyable results.

For example, in the beginning of August, I got the idea to write an e-book on novel writing that I could give away to prospective buyers of Novel Writing Made Easy to provide them with a sense of what kind of information I have in the system I sell.  I thought it was a cool idea, and I started the e-book.  It took me 3 weeks to write it.  This wasn’t because I was working on it for that long.  In actual time, I think it might have taken two days.  But I couldn’t seem to stick with it.  I kept getting distracted.  I finally made myself do it, and I got it on the site, and … what a surprise … it’s had no impact on sales.

I went back to reading etc. This time I truly let go.  When fear would rise up and yell at me:  “Gotta make money.  Gotta make money,” I’d say, “That’s none of my business,” and “I choose to be at peace.”  My energy would shift, and I’d relax again.

One of the etc.s was keeping up with my e-mail inbox, and over the next couple weeks, I received links to internet marketing training videos that discussed affiliate marketing and video blogging.  Although intrigued, my initial reaction was a bristling resistance.  I’ve had bad experiences with internet marketing in the past, and I think much of it is scammy and smarmy and I want no part of it. But I reminded myself that the past is in the past; I watched the videos with an open mind.

2. Give Ideas Time To Settle In

The videos planted a seed of an idea in my head. For two weeks, I did nothing but continue to read etc. In the back of my mind, though, the idea began to sprout.

Finally, on August 30, I told Tim about my idea.  “I can’t guarantee it will produce an income,” I told him.  “And I have some concerns about being so visible on the videos with my weight the way it is.”

“You’re beautiful,” he said.  (Do you see why I LOVE my husband?)

3. Check The Resistance Level

Tim then said, “Does it sound like fun to you?” (He’s loving AND wise!)

“Yes, it does,” I said.  “It combines all my passions.”

“You want to do this more than write another book?” he asked.

“I have some resistance to writing a book,” I said.  “I can feel it.  But this idea feels pretty resistance free.”

When you feel edgy about an idea, when you’re entertaining the reasons why it might fail, you have resistance.  Resistance grinds the wheels of productivity to a halt (as it did with that novel writing e-book I mentioned).

4. GO Without Hesitation

Two days later, I did go for it.  I generated a plan, scribbled down a bunch of ideas and came up with name for my new project (that was easy—it just popped into my head).    And just like that, Up From Splat started going from idea to reality.

Between September 1 and September 11, I did this:

• Registered a domain name for a new site
• Chose a theme and tweaked the code until I got it the way I wanted it
• Wrote all page content for the site and 14 blog posts
• Wrote content for six videos and 16 audios and recorded them
• Wrote and did graphics for a 23 page e-book
• Wrote and did graphics a 35-page e-book
• Set up an autoresponder sign up sequence and form
• Set up a youtube channel
• Set up a new Facebook Up From Splat Group

And this is just what I did for my new project.  I also

• Started a new eating plan (yes, I know I don’t need to eat specific things for my body to be smaller, but it feels right) and banished 14 pounds—woo hoo
• Began meditating again (I used to do it regularly and got out of the habit)
• Set up several other self-care systems that used to work for me and that I’d let fall by the wayside

5. Don’t Stick Your Nose In The Universe’s Business

About six days into my rapids-like action, I ran into a boulder.  I watched my new videos and had a moment of self doubt.  “What if”s sprang up like weeds:  what if people hate it, what if it’s a dumb idea after all, what if it fails.  Blah, blah, blah.

I stopped what I was doing.  I used the chi machine and meditated and did deep breathing, and I told myself repeatedly, “That’s none of my business.”  It’s not up to me to handle how it’s received or what happens now.  All I need to do is stay excited about my idea and remain in the identity of a woman who’s already built a successful business.

Ahhh.

I went back to my action fully charged up and raring to go.

Productivity Isn’t Willful

And that’s how you get things done, quadruple what it seems like it’s possible to do.

We tend to think of productivity as a willful thing, something that comes with discipline and schedules and responsibility.  We usually push our way into productivity and then feel all virtuous about it.

True productivity has nothing to do with effort.  It comes from putting yourself in a boat that needs no rudder because it knows exactly where to go—toward alignment with your highest self.

When you stop working so hard to look for a direction and you let that direction simply reveal itself to you, you remove the impediment that was keeping your boat from finding its way.  And that’s when you get productive because that’s when the energy is flowing.  That’s when you have the power of you (your physical self) and YOU (your nonphysical, higher energy self who knows who you really are) acting in sync. When that happens—WOWZA!

I invite you to join me at Up From Splat.  It’s not a site devoted to living in law of attraction awareness as this one is.  The site starts from a place of contrast, from the yuck of what is, and sets a course toward the wonder of what can grow from that contrast  It’s my way of making something awesome out of past events that could be considered lousy.

Although the site isn’t law of attraction-oriented, of course it’s written through that awareness because that’s my perspective.  But I do share more action ideas on the site than I do here.

If you like the site, please share it with whoever you think might find it useful.  And as always, I welcome your comments and thoughts!

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