OMG, OMG, OMG - THANK YOU FOLKS!

Yay - woo hoo - high 5 me

Soooooooooo excited

 

I GOT PAID TO WRITE TONIGHT - YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

MY ABUNDANCE BLOG JUST PAID ME

 

To all the followers who read this blog - I totally love the uplifting emails you send me, it's so nice to know some of it resonates and tonight when I log on to update it for you - guess what?

The Abundance blog generated its own abundance - too funny - I'm in fits of laughter over it - thank you!

 

Thanks to all of you - and your happy clicking on the ads google pop up depending on what I write about

Forgot about that side of it

 

OMG, just going outside to run up and down the paddock naked for a while

See ya

Thanks deeply

Love Lesley

Qi Gong classes recommence at Renascent this week, hence .....

Therefore a perfect affirmation (not necessarily specifically aimed at abundance, but hey what's abundance if it's not including good health - can't be abundant if you are weak and ill)

Every cell of my body returns to normal healthy functioning
I am abundant
I am connected with the energies of Life

Too much abundance can prevent you from achieving your goals.

Interesting title huh!
Have a think about it before you read on any further.
What does this pull up for you, what does it make you think of, do you think "what????" or do other ideas pop into your mind.
Often when we are working with unfolding our manifestation powers and abilities we need to read things to guide us on the right path however one persons truth may not be your truth and therefore what works for one may not necessarily work for another.
Instead of simply rushing in thinking "ooh, that sounds interesting, I must read on" the task is to pause and reflect on what it could mean to you BEFORE reading on (don't worry, it's already written and not going anywhere so you will have time to come back and reflect upon it and read the writers words soon).

In contemplating what words mean to us and what they bring up within ourselves, we often achieve the deepest awakenings and insights into ourselves.

Go ahead.............. stop now............... ponder............. "Too much abundance can prevent you from achieving your goals"

I'd like to share my insights on this and see if they match yours or if it awakens something quite different for you.

Having promised the kids we'd take them out for a fun packed day today we had worked late into the previous evening to complete work and get the 1st newsletter of the year out to our clients advising them that classes and celebrations recommence this week.
As part of the 'clean up' from the centre, you may recall I had brought up around 400 books to the house and (neatly) stacked them behind my chair and desk at the house - awaiting listing on eBay.
Daryll walked in and looked at me asking "do you want me to remove some of those, it seems like you are surrounded and hemmed in?"
I assured him, there was room and I was fine.
Completed (at 4am!) the newsletter, emailed it out, gave up on the date sheet and the website (perhaps a weekend or next week job)
Posted a blog on the home schooling network asking for assistance and insights into some choice we are currently making re Gabe.
Checked in via email  with ongoing circle class students and answered to 240 emails that pop in daily.
Toddled off to bed only to be awoken a couple of hours later by VERY excited children ready for their special day.

Off we set and the day is beautiful, we are near the beach, the sun is shining, we met some new friends in a queue and had lunch with them and spent the rest of the day sharing and connecting with them whilst the kids all played together, said our farewells as new terrific friends and set off for a walk along the beach.
So far, all sounding pretty idyllic......................

However....
All day I had had a nagging feeling of being overwhelmed, having too many decisions to make, too much to achieve in a short period of time, too many people wanting something and relying on me to give it.
Finally in the early evening I needed to share this with Daryll. I have had this experience in the past where the big picture takes over and by breaking it down into little segments it somehow becomes manageable again, (which is what I was hoping he would assist me to do).
We had a discussion about it, but the feeling didn't lift and once we returned home, instead of walking in and seeing the 90% clean home, I walked in and saw the 10% messy home.
My desk was surrounded by books, there were a few plates in the kitchen and the new puppy promptly ran in so excited to see us that she turned into a canine fountain all over her, us and the carpet - great!

My first reaction was to sit down and have a little cry, but instead I looked around and thought what is causing this. can you guess what it was?
It was the books surrounding the desk.
We picked them up and dumped 3 piles in the laundry (just a little out of sight for now) and left 3 more manageable piles around the desk.

Suddenly, my world was fine again, I felt inspired, energised and ready to move on.
The carpet was promptly cleaned, laundry done, kitchen cleaned up (took 4 minutes!), Emma read me her bedtime stories whilst I did the laundry and here I am cup of tea in hand, completely the emails and writing the blog.
Home school decisions still to be made, however they are boxed & (thanks to around 14 replies on my blog with suggestions) I have pathways to investigate and choices available.

It is amazing how we gather things to us thinking they are improving our abundance, when in fact they are doing quite the opposite and by cluttering our lives, we are sapping our own enthusiasm and blocking ourselves from reaching for the stars.

Perhaps from this article, you may be able to have an 'aha' moment as to what may be causing you to feel overwhelmed and make some positive steps o improve it.
Even if your house is a huge mess, don't worry about it all at once, just focus on the one main area, sit in each room and feel into it and then sort that area out, you never know, it may just allow the space / inspiration to do the rest.

Kids want it all...............

Today I was invited to teach at the YMCA kids programs, so off we set for a morning of crafts and activities, the kids were great, we had 32 children to make soap art undersea dioramas and pet rocks.

Armed with full instructions and plenty of leaders on hand to assist we unleashed them to create as they will.

It was fascinating to watch as I realised for a child there is a glorious sense of abundance, "I want it all............. and why not!"

Forget minimalist, these kids (well most of them) wanted as much as they could possibly cram into the one soap, so cram they did, they had it all, shimmers, fish, soap penguins, soap rocks, in it all went.

We suggested that simple can sometimes look better, but no, in it went..............

Soap set, they moved onto pet rocks (& did a great job), then it became time for the grand reveal.

The soaps were carefully unmolded and their creations revealed.

Some of the fun little personalities loved the abundance of 'stuff' in their soap, but it was really interesting observing many that looked at the simpler soaps and said "that one really does look the best, next time I am not going to add so much in".

It was interesting in watching their own awakening that sometimes more is not always the best or the greatest abundance.

I realised had I tried to control what they created and tell them what to do they would not have had this awakening themselves. If I had of restricted what they could have added their soap would have looked lovely (perhaps better) which therefore is often what we find ourselves as parents doing, however it is our lesson (as the parents) to catch ourselves doing this and stop!

Allow them to create what they will and then sit back and learn from their own creations, their own experiences what works best for them.

In this manner, they own their experience, they grow from it and make their own choices in the future.

Not always an easy thing to let go of and allow to happen, especially when you know your finished product may look better than theirs (& in a class like this it is the representation of what they show their parents that YOU taught them).

However, as we work through manifesting greater abundance and success in our lives it becomes our duty to allow others to grow and learn from / with us also, it is our duty to awaken the mind to possibilities and allow us to grow together.

I have a picture in my office of a very tiny and high pointed mountain peak, a goat has climbed up and is standing balancing a large board on the mountain point, saying "hop on, there's always room at the top".

Received some gifts you don't want?

I was reading some articles today about people receiving unwanted Christmas gifts and what they do with them.
Actually it was pretty funny as they asked people to wrote in their most memorable / awful / unwanted gifts.
Some were pretty funny, like the mother in law that sent the daughter in law a jar of beautifully wrapped fish food (they have no fish) what the?

In pondering this, I am sure we can all remember at least one gift that was in this category.

A man wrote in saying that as a child he eagerly awaited the gift sent from his interstate grandmother, one year, it arrived, in a box, wrapped up and made a fascinating tinkling sound.
Waiting for the next 10 days, on Christmas day he rushed down to open it, fascinated in what may contain an interesting sounding toy, to discover .................... a box of nutra grain (breakfast cereal).

An affirmation for today, should you find yourself the recipient of some unwanted items (before you ebay them):

I delight in the abundant gifts that have been gifted to me from others every blessed day of my life.

How little things can change so much.

We've all been there, we begin and sometimes even complete a house renovation (or any other large scale project) and it's all but finished ..................... except for.......
It may be the touch of paint required in 1 location, the bit of grout missing, the silicone around a pipe, just a tiny thing, but hey, you've done so much and it seems so tiny in comparison, so there it sits, waiting, silently and most often forgotten.
This was the case with our stove splashback.
We got quotes to have a glass pane installed - around $3000.00 and even the money wasn't the issue, it was trying to get tradies out to measure and quote and decide and fit.
If it was a big job, it would be done, but it's not and so it waits.

We finished our kitchen around 2 years ago and here it sits still waiting...........
We painted the wall behind it and kept a fire extinguishers nearby as it wasn't quite up to standards, but it just goes into the too small to be bothered with category.

I was up at a hardware store last week and found some tiles, pretty standard 200mm white tiles with a pattern in them that looks like water splashes, quite plain but nice, $1.10 each so the price is no object.
I called Daryll and got the measurements, around 20 tiles required in total, add grout $5, adhesive $5, so far up to around $30, but a bit plain.
Found some lovely rock pebble borders $19 per pkt of 5 which should do the trick, job done, supplies in tow, grand total of around $50 spent.

This morning I decided today was the day, Daryll zipped out for theatre productions for a while, the kids were busily entertaining themselves on computer games (well cleverly disguised home educating maths and English literature programs made to look like games - they just couldn't believe their luck at being allowed on the computer for a couple of hours - hehe!, evil tricky giggle sneaks in here!)

I don the old clothes, lay out a cloth and set to work - 50 minutes later - yeah - 50 minutes - that's it!
Job done - what????

It looks fantastic, the kitchen appears to have had an overhaul, cooking is now safe, it seems like the entire area is fresh and lovely and the rock finish at the top just made it perfect.
Daryll comes home from the theatre - having been gone for 1 hr to "Hi honey, I'm finished would you like a cuppa?"
We can't believe it.

We position the chairs to face the magnificent stove finished area - yes, you know that 'proud' feeling when the view of the stove is even more appealing than the view of the paddock and the trees down the valley and over the hill.
Warm up with a lovely cup of tea and thus begin the discussion on completing projects.

 
As we talk we realise that it really took so little effort, yet adds so much. At this stage we aren't sure what changes will follow as a result so we are pleasantly awaiting the energy changes this brings.

One of the golden rules in feng shui is to keep your stove and oven clean. In feng shui, the stove represents the heart of the house and when it is cluttered or dirty it represents the heart of the house being unclean and messy. It is the one thing to always make clean in your home to ensure a happy, loving environment.
Now ours was clean, but unfinished and it certainly looks 100% better now, so we are pleasantly awaiting the changes this may bring.

Our discussion moved to how many 'little' jobs await us, around the home, with the kids, in the offices.work, friends, family, etc. We pondered on how little time these things take, but the difficulty in getting around to them and finally achieving them.

Most of my life, I have been inspired by Jackie French and her writings (eco aware gardener), she always says she has never eaten a fruit she really enjoyed and not planted the seed, sure some die and won't make it, some don't bear fruit easily, but just imagine if you planted every seed you ever enjoyed the fruit from.
In her last article she mentioned she now has over 350 different types of apples growing (& those are just the apples!)
Imagine that sort of abundance!
The feeling that comes from knowing your property is able to feed you and your family no matter what your finances look like. Perhaps invest in a 2nd hand bottling unit (my next purchase - if anyone has one they no longer use - let me know) and then a gorgeously laden pantry filled with bottled fruits and vegetables all year round. Now you have my attention!
To me, this typifies wonderful abundance - I'm in!
Last winter we planted 25 bare rooted fruit trees, 2 didn't make it, but the other 18 did - yay! Daryll was saying how they are growing very slowly, but hey, we never tend them, they are just left on their own and it is my experience (in hard Warrandyte clay) that the ones that survice may take longer to get going, but are also less likely to die when the weather turns on them a bit.
I was thinking, imagine if I planted 25 trees every year! It seems like yesterday we moved in but actually it was 11 years ago, that would be 275 fruit trees down the paddock right now, but what if instead of planting bare rooted trees I just planted 1 seed each week (or even a few) that's more than 52 trees a year - at no cost what so ever.

Now you may be thinking, but my property is not that big, you may be surprised! I have seen remarkable garden on tiny properties, even on balconies in apartments, sure you won't be able to support your entire food requirements, but it all helps. Grow too many fruit trees, sell them off on eBay, at a garage sale or local market, now you've got money coming in from it.
Get the idea?

Everything is difficult when it's big, but everything that's big can be broken down to be small.
Imagine renovating the entire house - way too hard!
50 minutes tiling behind the stove for $50 total - sure, why not - easy!

Imagine you wrote a list (this is a good thing to do and an idea we are considering), perhaps on a whiteboard or glass pane and wrote down every little odd job you could think of around the house/office / kids / work, I mean EVERYTHING, write it all down.
Then step back and look at it, for a moment you may feel overwhelmed, but then look again, the big picture is made up of many tiny pictures, are any of them impossible? No! Of course not, because each one is just a little thing on it's own.
So now what?

Decide which one you will do next and get the supplies you need to do it, have them lay around and annoy you for a week or so until you are itching to get them out of the way too and then wake up one morning and do that job - just that job - don't worry about the other 88 jobs you listed - just give that one job your attention.

In no time, you'll be having a cuppa proudly looking on at what you just created.
You will feel proud, a sense of accomplishment and like you have achieved something.
However after a short time another feeling may arise.
One that says, "well, that wasn't so hard was it, pretty easy and didn't take much time at all and I did a great job at that"

A few moments later a realisation will wash over you that says, "Oh, my goodness, I have been putting off these obs for 10 years - maybe more, if I just did one a week or even 1 a month, but the end of the year, another 12 jobs would be completed"
Now stop, let that reality sink in................
At the end of the year - another 12 jobs completed!

It may not sound like much, but did you achieve 12 of your goals last year - perhaps not, why not? because put together they are all too big.

Begin it now, if you are inspired now, stop reading (I'm going to end this chapter now so you can), go and get a small whiteboard, a tile, a piece of paper, a pane of glass, what ever you have a begin your list of to do's. Measure up anything that needs measuring ie - tile space.
Then next time you are out, you can find exactly what you require to complete the job at hand and set about your first task.
Then one by one, work through the list, do not finish one and immediately move on to the next, you will burn out and it all becomes big again - not to mention the cleaning purge as I recently experienced!
Just do one and then enjoy it, allow yourself to feel the satisfaction and wait for the positive changes to begin to flow into your life................
go now, get that pen/paper/pencil...................... I can't wait to hear what changes happen for you.

All my needs are met

Today I have been privileged to be surrounded by the opportunity to assist others.
It is a wonderful gift to be able to share and support others and watch them grow and blossom with a small assistance all on their own.
I therefore felt this affirmation may be a terrific one to share:

I serve others with enthusiasm, delight and joy now. As my abundance and success grows, their abundance also blossoms.

Flow with changes

We have been away for a few days and I am delighted to be back sharing with you again
I have had some amazing insights I am looking forward to sharing with you and the upcoming year with the spiritual development circle.

For today, an affirmation to focus on and assist you to flow for today:

Things change, life moves on, events, people and situations change, but abundance and love are always mine.

Wow - too much change!

I mentioned yesterday I would fill you in on the changes that had occurred.
As you know, everything was being upturned and renovated - phew -- couldn't even see the floors let alone the desks.
Now, lets digress backwards slightly, the reason for all this ............
The building had settled a little, some cracks had appeared in the classroom walls and I wanted to 'bog' them up and paint over them, all seemed possible!
However in the process, as discussed earlier, we decided to swap the offices around, build a new clinic area in Daryll's and fix things up, what we thought to be a 1-2 day (5-6hrs day job) turned into a 5 person 22hr day X 8 days and that's before what got to the classroom!
Phew!
After 7 days, the offices were nearly finished.

We had cleaned up around 300 books - which (I digress again) was an interesting process in how we handle abundance and cling to things. Daryll decided to become ruthless and put them in massive piles telling me to op shop or eBay them, with a footnote, just check through in case you want to keep any.
I found myself saying - "wow, this is a treasure, this is really valuable, you can't toss this one out", favourites like Esoteric Healing by Alice Bailey were even in the pile.

I realised my own resistance to change and my own difficulty in letting things go were coming up for me to look at again.
I pondered what it was that was hitting resistance within myself and waht other blocks were holding me back from my own peaceful letting go.
I recognised that I still wanted to read or reread so many of them, which brought on another discussion about our need to cling to things and 'hoard / keep them' for ourselves.

In this very nature is the blockage to our own freedom, our own ability to soar with life and lifes changes.
How much we resist and we must ask ourselves how much can we let go and purely trust in the universe.
As I sat there surrounded by books I closed my eyes and allowed the imagery to come in.
Myself as a young girl emerged, sitting alone in my bedroom (I am an only child) surrounded by books, clutching them to my chest as if they were my only friends in the world. I realised my own inner child was the one facing the trauma of letting go, feeling like if I let go this time, then I may have not only no one to be with, but also nothing to comfort me.

It was a moving and powerful realisation.
In my mind, my adult self took the hand of my child and said "I am here now, you don't need to be alone any more, I will love you and be your friend and you don't need these things they are just possessions".

I opened my eyes and looked around at the room (swamped in 'stuff') and thought, "right! I really don't need any of this, I simply haven't got the time to read these right now and when I do find the time, I will trust that I will find the book in a 2nd hand store at a terrific price right when I want it. It is time for someone else to read these now and benefit from them".
I chose about 5 that I should manage to read over the next few weeks and up the rest of the piles went, next to my house computer to be offered to friends/clients/students/eBay very soon.

Back to the cleaning at hand...........
Daryll's office was now finished and looking beautifully simple, with his medical reference books, lovely fresh massage table looking out the window into the rose garden and massive canvas picture of dappled light streaming through a forest on the other wall - lovely!

My office desks were swamped under stuff, but the room was set up and the floor was clean.
I ventured into the classroom / showroom. As I stood there I became aware of a shaky energy feeling.
I felt into it, wondering if it was a clients energy, but no, it was actually the building, it felt shaky, unsettled, disrupted. In a room that's always peaceful and serene this struck me as really odd.
I felt into the chi (energy) of the building and observed the entire building felt shaky, the energy said "enough, stop, leave us alone for a while".
I realised that the changes I had put in place were too much, too concentrated, too rapid, it felt like too much change had happened in too short a time and like people the chi of an environment can become disturbed, exhausted and depleted.

I decided that that was it, enough was enough, I would thoroughly clean the entire centre, but no more renovating would occur.
I went home and told Daryll about my findings, he stopped and came down to the centre to feel the chi returning shortly with "yes, well observed, you are correct it is exactly how the building is feeling".
We tumbled into bed - currently 3am!

Now comes the night that every parent (unfortunately) knows at some stage or another...................
3.15am - Tiny pitter pats of feet come down the hallway and into our bedroom, a tiny hand touches my arm and whispers "Mummy". Too tired to walk her back to bed, I pull back the covers for her to slide in and she whispers, "I can't Mummy, I've had a tiny accident". Ohhhhh.......................... (drats!)
"OK, darling, what type of accident?"

"I've had a little vomit Mummy"
It's that moment as a parent, where you know, there is no way possible you can ignore it, you must get up RIGHT NOW and deal with this, there's a sinking feeling when you wake up, then you realise you are so tired that you do a funny little dance round in circles on the floor as your reeling head tries to keep up with where your body is. By the time you get to the door your body has somehow caught up with your head and you manage to walk in a straight line.
Any parent that has done this dance, realises you must NEVER pick up the child (apart from the fact you'll inevitably pick up the only part that is thoroughly covered in vomit), reeling away it would be downright dangerous, you take their little hand (because goodness knows THEY aren't tired) and walk back to the room.
Expecting a tiny puddle I flick on the lights and it takes a few minutes for the sheer magnitude of what has taken place to really sink in.
Surely this is not my darling daughters room, surely there has been an exorcism that has taken place here with blood letting and sacrificial offerings, surely there has been a party for 165 teenagers in this room in the past 15 minutes since I checked on her.

Alas, no! She has managed in 1 movement to vomit on the wall behind her head, the roof and the far wall, narrowly missing her favourite lampshade, the toys, pillows, fuzzy dog, clothing laid out for the next day and the roof are not so lucky - they are all covered!
I step into the room to survey the damage, only to slowly look down as something cold squishes through my toes - urrrgggghhh! Yuk!
Just for a brief second, I contemplate walking to the front door of the house, getting in my car and escaping to a hotel somewhere tropical, but no, it must be done.
Her bed is filled like a swimming pool and I realise I need reinforcements - "go and get Daddy honey, tell him Mummy just wants to show him something". She smiles and pads off, I can't really remember Daryll's reaction but I know the words "Oh, my God" crept in there.
We bundle her up on the couch and by 4am we are all back in bed - ahhhh!

4.15am - pitter pat - nooooooooo "Mummy" a tiny voice whispers "I've had a different type of accident"
4.45am - all clothing washed and soaking from terrible number 2's everywhere, bed changed again, tiny person back in bed

5.15am, I hear the becket being filled again - Oh yes, this time it was right beside her bed, poor little love!
6am - back in bed
7am - alarm clock goes off, busy day, finishing cleaning the centre - up a day!

I tiptoe to her room only to discover - not there!
A cold sweat washes over me as I (calmly) call to Daryll, we search everwhere and find her sound asleep in a bundle of blankets and wearing new clothes on the couch.
We look at each other - "why is she in new clothes?" Oh No!

Yes, she has filled her jammies from waistband to ankle and everything in between, including the bedroom floor.
Poor love, I won't go on, you get the idea!

By the afternoon darling son, has also come down with the runs, closely followed by the dog (who hasn't eaten anything but dog food)
Daryll and I are starting to feel a little queasy too.

We realise that we have stirred up the chi of the environment too much. Daryll chats with me about how a building can also have a healing crisis caused by too much letting go.
Interestingly, the bodies of the house seemed to have no troubles in letting go (quite a bit too much for my liking thank you).
I realise how children and pets can so often be the barometers for what is occurring in the energy field around them. There little bodies are such sensitive instruments to detect changes in the chi.
We went to the centre and performed a blessing, settled the chi and assured the building there would be no more changes, just cleaning up, the chi of the building immediately settled and the children came good (& the dog) within the hour.

It is interesting how as we release ties that bind us, how our body can often have the same releasing effect.
All beneficial no doubt, but like all things - required in moderation.

Here I am the first time I have had time to blog........... the offices are lovely, the packing room is lovely, the kitchen bathroom and classroom are lovely.
The chi is just starting to quiet down and the environment really feels like it needs a well deserved rest.
I won't be working in here tomorrow, like a hard working staff member, environments and buildings also need time to rest, reflect and recuperate.

There is a sense of gratitude in the building, we made a point of leaving at 4pm today (taking the kids to the movies, dinner out) and then returning for the last minute cleaning this evening.................
Ahhhhh, peaceful release!

Your affirmation for the day:

I am 100% willing and able to release my need for keeping my imbalances on all levels.

I look forward to hearing what comes up for you

Abundant changes

An affirmation for today:

As I open my mind to the unlimited resources and abundance of the universe, rapid changes come into all aspects of my life.

Still renovating and cleaning, but I will blog in soon about some very rapid changes that took place in our lives today as a result of all this cleaning, needless to say, we're slowing it down a bit now. I'll fill you in soon!

All my needs are met!

In line with practicing new points re the abundance visualisations:

Here is your affirmation for today:

All my needs are met, no matter how much something costs, I will  always have enough money to cover it.

I'm drowning under all this abundance!

So, it's January........... the business is closed, not yet the commencement of school term, we're on holidays - right?
Huh! so perhaps we aren't seeing clinic clients or classes, but we are far from sitting on the beach sipping pina coladas.
It's the only time of the year when no one is here and we can clean out the Renascent Centre.
I decided to do a big spring clean this time and rather than just clean and tidy Daryll and I sat down and had a discussion on what is working in our business for us, what is not, why is it not and what would you like to see to have that fixed.
eg - I do not like the staff working behind my back when I am on the computer, solution, I want them in another room or in front of me.

I do not like only being able to use the toilet for a 3 minute gap in between clinic clients every 45 minutes, solution, the clinic room needs to be moved to a location where we may use the kitchen / toilet / showroom without disturbing clients.

It all sounds rather simple really, however I got to thinking that in achieving our goals, often we forget that we must understand what works, what doesn't work and what we would like to see as the solution in order to move forward and manifest success.

The talk became a little excited as we planned out what we wanted and how we could achieve it, the next thing, the wheels were in motion, we were in the office at 2am, drawing pictures, planning and plotting out things.
Yes, at this stage all things are possible, all things are exciting and do able.

Yes, that sounds simple, we'll swap our offices, move the clinic into Daryll's office and revamp the entire showroom - piece of cake!

The next day we are up bright and early (well, OK- we're night owls by nature, but hey bright and early for night owls)
The event begins, we need to empty everything out of Daryll's office into the showroom, then we'll move everything from my office into his and the showroom back into Daryll's office.
Sure, no problems, it's all do-able! Doesn't sound too hard!

WOW!!!!!
How is it possible that one man's office can entirely fill the complete showroom?

 
15 hours later, we blind folded Daryll, brought him in and said "when you open your eyes, this is what was in your 1 small office"
(prior to this I had mentioned to him not to be expect being overjoyed and excited it was more likely to require a bex and a little lay down)
He opened his eyes and very slowly surveyed the room, finally, he murmured, "yes, that is a lot, isn't it, guess I have some sorting out to do" (I'll upload some pictures later to this blog).
3 X 22 hour days, we are still wading through it.
I spent 14 hours yesterday scrubbing walls in 1 office, I went through 24 magic erasers (goodness they are fantastic, but how do they simply dematerialise when you use them & BTW don't blog in what's in them, I really don't think I want to know), my knuckles are bruised, I can't shut my hands properly, but the walls are clean.
A full day with a staff member today and 1 section of my office (with packaging stock is in perfect order).

No sooner had this been placed in order, than customers orders started flying in from eBay and our online store. I asked her to drop a few in the post office on her way home (as there was only around 12 orders to go), phew, in they came, the more we made space, the more things flew out the door.
By the end of the day, her poor little car was loaded to the roof with boxes, envelopes and parcels.

I realised that the "stuff" we had been hanging on to was weighing us down and preventing us from releasing and really embracing freedom.
It was easy to justify that it wasn't personal, it was business and stock (and a great deal of it was) however, there was a lot of past items and personal things in there too that had been just sitting there for 10 years.

Now, I am not saying have a big clean up and throw everything out, I have a statue on the shelf that has been there for 20 years, but I really like it, every time I look at it, I like it, it uplifts me and makes me happy. I clean it weekly, because I really like it and want to look at it.

But what about the ornament that has been there for years, that is gathering dust, it is filthy, now you don't want to look at it as it looks like hard work, or dusting to be done, it no longer uplifts your chi (energy) if anything, it weighs you down.
It doesn't have to, you have a choice:
1. Clean it and love it again
2. Move it on

Looking at the box of leads, electrical wires and old remotes of Daryll's, I was pretty sure they weren't doing too much uplifting.
He looks at me and says "but they all came with devices that already had leads from the one I updated them with". As if that sounded like it was a perfectly justifiable reason.
"Uh, huh" I reply, "and your reason for now keeping spare leads that you do not need is ...................?"

He agrees, "yep, guess I don't need them anymore do I" - uh - nope!
What about the box of 2908 floppy disc drives?
Anything required has been converted to CD's now and with $1.19 applications available for the Ipad with kids games in beautiful graphics, do you REALLY need the Atari 'blip, blip' games. Hmmmm, perhaps not!

Now, we know that some of these will one day be collectors items and may be valuable, but guess what? We aren't collectors, nor resellers of video games and really don't want to be. We trust in our abundance, we have all we need taken care of, let's either toss them out, or pop them in an op shop for someone else to discover.
Great idea.

So where are we at with this culling right now?
I am sitting in my new office (Daryll's old one), hmmm much bigger than usual, a large window too, I can see down the valley as the day is fading, there's a large, sleepy tawny frogmouth owl nesting in the tree above.
I have cleared a TINY gap on the desk to type this up.

Daryll has given up!
He's sorted his piles of stuff out to : keep / bin / op shop / kids / students may like / eBay (wow - now I'm a little daunted, the eBay piles are huge - ah well, some great books coming up, keep your eyes out for these soon)
Daryll's left the building!!!!!
That's it, he's picked up his bat and ball and gone home, with a flourish of "Ummm, I'll feed the kids, clean up the house, get dinner organised, do the washing, take care of the pets, etc, etc, would you just take care of what's left lovey"

Phew- realistically, can it be done, yes, I think it will take myself and 2 staff members another 5-6 days (& I'm planning on being here 'til midnight every day), but yes, it can!

So what's on tomorrow - more cleaning for me - Daryll has a completely fully booked clinic day right through to 9pm, where I hear you asking, well, some times these things call for thinking outside the box. We'll set up a clinic in the lounge, some kids activities in amongst the showroom (I'll push some things to one side to make a path, who knows I may never see the kids again or at least not until they are desparately hungry).
I'll welcome clients with a brief explanation and walk them through the aforementioned path to the house. Where there's a will there's a way.

A lot of work I know, so you may be asking Why bother?
Although it is still a huge mess, the chi is clean, ideas are flowing already, this is the first time I have touched this blog in weeks, there's a freshness, a newness, a wanting to get things done again chi - yay!
I love it, so, join me.......... have a spring clean, let others benefit from things you no longer need, have a clean up, what's stopping you?
You may discover a whole new fresh lease on life and if you list on online stores, maybe even a flourish of finances to come rushing in too.

I'm going to be here for the next few days, join me, have a tidy up of your own and blog in here how it feels.
Happy freshness, I can't wait to hear what changes for you.

Apologies for my tardiness with this blog

Hello Folks,
So sorry we have been away from blogging for a while.

We hope you enjoyed your Christmas and New Years festivities.
I have decided to set a little mini goal within this blog for the month and upload a short blog every day or 2nd day for the rest of the month.

In line with the abundance mediation at the beginning of this blog where we breathe in abundance for self and breathe out abundance for all (thus ensuring success for ourselves also).

Some of my students have asked if there are other affirmations they could insert within this meditation if those words do not resonate with them....................... short answer: certainly!

In line with my mini goal here, I will be adding in abundance meditations/visualisations that you can practice to bring abundance and success into your life.

If the 1st one has been working really well for you, then you may like to stick with it.
If not, or if you'd like to work in some other areas, try some of the ones to follow on here.

Important: remember your belly breathing, remember to clear your thoughts and focus on the words at hand, remember to repeat, repeat, repeat, up to 30 minutes a day (or more if you like) to bring success.

Happy creating