I first read Do the Work several months ago and it has significantly impacted the way I think about personal growth, risk, and taking chances. It was an interesting balance to the Abraham-Hicks focus on resistance, which usually makes it sound so benign. I found that Pressfield’s personification of it as an Enemy somehow motivated me to take a more active part in looking for it so I can recognize and release it. I must have been doing a pretty good job lately because I’ve manifested some pretty powerful things this week.
First, I won a Vision Workshop & Laser Coaching package while listening to a tele-seminar with Sonia Miller of Success for the Soul. She was starting another 90-day intensive coaching program in September, something I’ve wanted to do every time she’s offered it. This time I knew the Resistance I was feeling, all the reasons why I shouldn’t pay for it or commit to it with my busy schedule, was coming from a ‘scarcity mentality’ and really signaled that this was exactly what my soul was calling me to do. So I took the leap, signed up for it, and paid in full. Two days later I won a full-ride scholarship to the program and received a refund for the whole amount in my paypal account! When I was answering the questions to apply for the scholarship (which was by random drawing), I declared that if I won, I would put the money toward attending Marie Forleo’s Rich, Happy + Hot conference in New York in October. So you know where I’ll be that weekend!
I’m living in appreciation for things great and small this week: for scholarships and serendipitous web browsing; for vision workshop activities and journaling; for my big, lovable mastiff lying at my feet while I type the day away; for hot, sunny sweltering days and for downpours that drench us on the way to the car; for the last week of summer school for Liam and my last week of chauffering; for the opportunity to spend an hour in the car with him every day talking about music, coffee flavors, forms of government and what he should name his empire; and for relaxed, quality time with family and friends.
What are you appreciating today?
[author] [author_image timthumb='on']http://www.caramoulds.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/self-portrait9.jpg[/author_image] [author_info]Cara Moulds is a writer, photographer, former high school administrator and teacher. For private, personal, intimate writing about life, purpose, passion,spiritual expansion, education, parenting, and her experience in an intense coaching program, subscribe to The Letter. She co-founded Cool Blue Souls and writes weekly on spirituality, creativity, and personal growth for their Blue Read Book Club. Her fine art photography is on permanent exhibit at the Claudia Mayer Cancer Resource Center in Columbia, MD. Her prints may be viewed and purchased from her gallery, which is here.[/author_info] [/author]