Gaia: The Momentum Group - Voice of Experience - The Power of Choice

Re: The Power of Choice

http://seek2know.gaia.com — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 16:13:52 GMT

My favorite thing is tending my plants, flowers and veggies in the garden, to see how the seeds germinate and first young shoots break the dirt. As our only child is going to college this fall I have been spending much time in past few years contemplating capitalism
so none of us have to struggle to make a living. A big dream, yet reachable, if we keep asking as the book says "Ask and it is given".

I am deliberately using chore time to slow down and practice mindfulness, the chore becomes quite enjoyable and relaxing.

peace
mita

Re: The Power of Choice

http://fredbliss.gaia.com — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 18:03:03 GMT

Hi Marianne

Great point regarding doing mundane tasks. They never seem to be mundane if you can spend some introspective time with yourself.

Since that post, I have found scattered work, which is kept us afloat. We feel less scared about the future at the moment, as Marylou's conditions seem to be improving. Monday we have an ultrasound!

I think I'm going to turn this thread into a blog article and call it "Dish Wisdom". I really like what we have here!

Regarding getting myself out there, I do have the feelers out in various places, and in fact picked up some extra work via the internet for US News and World Report (wow!) recently. It was a small project, but I hope and would expect that they would come back to me since everything went smoothly. Cross your fingers for me!

Fred

Re: The Power of Choice

http://blueroadspirit.gaia.com — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:44:03 GMT

Fred-
Psychically, when we do a mundane task like driving, or washing dishes, it allow us to 'go within' to our happy place- where vision occurs...and OMG a man that does dishes- you're my hero!!

Native Americans use animals to give us insight to ourselves...

Rabbit- represents fear- that when we are afraid- we tend to jump- react to the fear- usually, putting us in an even stickier mess...by stopping, and really looking at why we are stuck- and allowing for the Universe to show us other ways, we find a more peaceful solution...

You naturally did just that..congrats!!!! You have passed spirituality 101...

And as you see, sometimes the best thing to do is nothing, that if we are scrambling for a solution, we are missing the natural solution that the other side is doing for us.....
We forget that there are friends, ancestors and guides, working for our benefit- and we get in the way when we try to 'manage' things...

Are there any networking events that you can go to in your area? Most are free....Maybe you start one at a local coffee house, and put an ad on the bulitin board?Everyone wants to advertise their business- and they could all be potential clients...
what about having a class or lecture..most people come to learn, but end up hiring the teacher to just do it for them...

I'm gonna go do my dishes now...maybe I'll get some insight myself....lol
Love,
Marianne

The Power of Choice

http://fredbliss.gaia.com — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 04:28:40 GMT

Tonight I made a realization.

I was washing dishes and thinking about how we are going to make it financially. My wife, 2.5 months pregnant, was just recently told she could not continue working due to a muscle injury she received slipping on ice in January.

Marylou is a hard working person. She was working two part time jobs about 25 hours per week as well as finishing her medical transcription course. Once this is completed, she will be able to work from home and be with the children, which we both agree is the best thing we can do for our family. Because of this, we now make $100 less per week than we did.

Faced with this financial challenge, I realized that I have to either a) find freelance work (not easy, mainly right place/right time) as a web developer or b) find another job that pays more (would not happen quickly enough, and our area has a weak tech market)

Either way, this is a big challenge for us. We were trying to catch up on bills that stacked up when Marylou had a miscarriage in November and was out of work for three weeks due to medical complications.

As I was washing dishes, I was going over my options and angles of attack to keep us from a disaster, to keep food on the table, and to get us on track so that we do not end up ruining our chance of getting a home in the next 12 months due to late bills and such. I realized during this time that we have a wonderful power to make choices in life, and no matter what situation life gives us, we always have the power to choose how to handle those situations and influence the outcomes.

The reality is that we are in a very scary place right now, but despite this, I am very thankful that I have the ability to make choices on how to handle this, and I feel confident that it will all work out in the end.

Does anyone need a web developer?

Fred