The Empowered Lifestyle

So, as we know, late last week I finally called a quick quorum together in order to start a Master Minding group that had been calling me to give it a voice for a few years now. It’s not like me not to listen to the intuitive suggestions, unless, of course, they could really manifest something spectacularly really easily, then, well, count me out. If it don’t make me sweat then I’m not all in. This is the Irish (lapsed) Catholic in me, those old tapes that play that say, “it just can’t be that easy, can it?”

The answer to that last question, as I have been witness to too many times to even begin to try and count is a big, HUGE, loud resounding ‘YES!!!!!’ But, for some reason, whenever I come across something I know to be True, with a capital ‘t’, sometimes, just sometimes, I stall enthusiastic efforts of jumping in with both feet because, well, I don’t really know why. Except sometimes I just think it might be too good to be true. With a capital ‘t.’

So late last week, I called on three friends of mine who I know to be legitimate, ‘could charge a fee for it’ manifesting machines. I didn’t hear back from Donna until today so I’m still not sure what we’re going to do together. But I did enlist Barbara and Kath right away and they were in so fast your head would spin…..as much, at least, as the energy was in the vortexes we were fast approaching.

What I decided we would do is “meet” via email twice a month to discuss our hopes and wishes and dreams. The same ones that we would now pledge to envision and pray for and support coming true for each one of us. Because, you know, whenever two or more of us are gathered for a common cause, well, we can (and do!) move mountains.

I thought that since we were novices at this Master Minding thing and since I still had to put together a more formal plan for all of us, but, so as not to lose any valuable collective time, well, I thought I would pick an affirmation from my mentor, Florence Scovill Shinn and I would share it with Barbara and Kath and then, at a specific appointed hour today, knowing what each one of us was intending (we shared email visions over the weekend) we would each pray for the others EXACTLY at that time to be followed by our working our affirmation (“My (our) ships now come in over calm seas, under grace in perfect ways.”)

At precisely 10:59 today, I sent out a clarion call to remind the other two (by the way, cute story, when I went to print out a terrific description of what a Master Mind group should do, my printer just decided to print out three copies instead of one. This was before I knew that Donna wasn’t going to get our emails, so, in fact, there did end up only three of us Master Minding for one another today..make your own Twilight Zone music here…)

Anyway, both Barbara and Kath checked back after 11 to say that they had spent their prayers and their energies visualizing what each one of us wanted, in the order we had previously determined and with the passion we had previously promised.

Now, mind you, what you will hear next was nothing that I consciously asked for but is something that Tammy and I have been bandying about for the last year or so; getting a capital loan for my small business to try and take it to next levels. I won’t go into ALL the reasons right now why I am so reticent to do that, but, suffice to say, I have “been there/done that” before and now, today, hundreds of thousands of dollars later, there are two major internet marketing companies that are deliriously richer for me having done “business” with them, without, however, them ever having the integrity or the honor to, well, honor their commitments and contracts. I now find out this is so common among small businesses that there oughta be a law!

But, back to today. So, late today I am getting ready to run out of the office and am really in a rush. Just as I am heading straight out the door the phone starts ringing and, as usual, I can’t just leave it (my son is in school all day, so, well, you just never know.) Okay, so I jump back into the office and grab the phone one last ring too late. I look at the caller ID and I see that the number calling came from New Jersey, the same sort of graphic I got the last time I spoke with the QVC guy. I waited a few minutes to see if anyone was leaving a message (no) and then decided to do something I’ve never ever ever done before in my life. I called the number back. I just didn’t want to miss any opportunity with that home shopping network, no matter.

But it wasn’t my old pal Tom waiting to tell me that QVC loved my pitch. Rather it was a finance company out of Southern New Jersey who had called me “by mistake.” I almost started to tell the girl on the other end my story when I decided I really needed to cut it short and get going. Before I could hang the line though, she facetiously and kidding-ly asked me if I happened to own a small business? You see, this is what her company does, they lend capital ONLY to small businesses and only to businesses that they deem need it. There is no bait and switch. There isn’t any catch. It’s just a legit small cap company looking for legit small businesses to capitalize. In New Jersey!

I told Laura that I was thinking once upon a recent time of taking another loan to expand my business but got gun shy last minute. She then told me that while we were speaking she had done a peripheral and very quick investigation and that if I wanted to do a deal, they would be willing.

Okay, do you know how hard it is to get ANY loan in the market today? Do the words “credit” and “crunch” strike an economic bell?

I was floored.

And grateful.

And kicking myself in the ass that I waited so long to start this Master Minding group.

Those ships they are a’sailin’ over calm seas, under grace, in perfect ways. And Barbara and Kath and I are apparently all swabbing the decks. Under grace, in perfect ways. And even though some of you might think that I am in that same sea being about as gull-ible as it gets, I believe with every ounce of my being that this was a huge gift that came about from our group efforts of earlier today. And, sincerely, I just cannot wait to see what happens next!!! Because, like I said, it really is just that easy.

The time is now. Get your group together. This stuff really works. Tomorrow we’ll see what Kath and Barb have to report. How fun!