It’s hot. Even though I live on an island and we have sea breezes some times, Martha’s Vineyard gets stuck in a weather pattern of 100% humidity.
Because it’s unusual only a few businesses and vacation homes have air conditioning, so “sticky” is the watch word across the vineyard when we are in a pattern like this.
The crowds that flock to the vineyard are smaller than usual this summer because of the changes going on in the economy. But in late August with the sticky weather, locals and visitors alike are having their attitudes pushed into negative flows with the traffic and rush of high season.
The Secret Service has been here for a while and people are a buzz with anticipation and consternation of the imminent arrival of President Obama and the first family.
Yesterday, it seemed that being hot and bothered came to a crescendo in all the faces and feelings of people moving through Oak Bluffs.
I heard a woman at the post office lament about the humidity, a father riding herd over three kids and dripping ice cream cones asking about where the press core would hold their briefings, a group of people having a heavy discussion about all the chaos dragging through the world…
Days like this pull you away from being upbeat and feeling connected to your inner muse. It seemed all my creativity and inspiration had melted into the humidity and the projects and work I needed them for were just as sticky as the heat.
With the sun down and the night settling in I noticed a shift in how I was feeling. The air had cooled a bit and as funny as it may sound the whole neighborhood seemed to tune back in. I sat in the dark on the deck and heard the sultry wail of a saxophone.
My neighbor, Cilla, exquisitely playing her sax. Usually there are lots of sounds around on a summer night. Now there was only the feeling of creativity and inspiration softly moving back into me and the neighborhood.
I grabbed my laptop to record the sweet sax in the summer evening. As I sat and listened it was such a nice reminder that we can choose to get bogged down in the hot and bother of life or we can choose to move to a rhythm that flows past the sticky notes and savors the sweet ones… I had the sense that everyone in the neighborhood, visitors and locals alike were savoring the sweet sounds of the sax and tapping back into their own spirited muse.
Take a moment to listen to a little of the sweet sounding sultry sax I recorded for you. [display_podcast]
Envision yourself sitting on a deck at night savoring the sweetness of your life.
Remind yourself that you choose not only which notes to listen to but which notes to play.
Enjoy.
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How do you look at things in your life?
Do you React to things…?
Or do you Act on the things you choose…?
Even though it is July the June Bugs are still out in the evening. They fly through the open window, buzz the room and then try to get back out through the only closed window in the space.
They react to the closed window by pushing against it, flinging their body against it. They don’t seem to shift their perspective onto the open window just ten inches away. They react-
You might think well. It’s a June bug, it’s what they do…
But what do you do with the seemingly “closed windows” in your life?
The other morning I heard some little thumps by the set of windows I had closed to the summer rain storm. I looked over and there was a fledgling chickadee flapping and trying to get out to the trees beyond. Instead of flapping madly he just tested the window and fluttered, intent on the vision beyond the glass.
I didn’t want to scare him so I moved to the next set of casement windows turned the window crank to open them. The morning breeze came through the windows.
I stepped back to the side of the windows- where the little chickadee was and held up a towel, using it to block his view of me. I just moved it closer and he turned away from it.
He seemed to be thinking about his predicament. Moving along the window sill in front of the closed windows with a flap and a bump now and then.
But mostly cocking his little head to get a new perspective. Then heading in the direction of the morning breeze he fluttered and bumped a bit more and out the next set of windows.
“Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.” ~ Albert Einstein
We are not June bugs, yet most times even with our powerful brains we fling ourselves against “closed windows”. We don’t shift our perspective we React!
We react to a comment someone makes to us… We react to something we hear on the news… We react to our lives…
What if as the little fledgling chickadee we cocked our heads and shifted our perspective. What if we stopped reacting to Everything?
What if we were inspired to spread our wings and live in a new way. To act on the things we chose to act on. And let the rest just be.
We choose to react- we usually just do it unconsciously. So what if we consciously chose a new way.
Will you let yourself choose to let go of reacting to things?
What things little and large will you Choose to Act On this week?
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There are so many changes happening right now.
So many things are crumbling and falling apart. Things seem to be contracting and disintegrating on every level…
But shift your view of what is happening just a little and watch the advertisements, the news headlines, the stories of people out there and what they are doing to move through these changes…
You will start to pick up on a different picture.
Inspiration is blooming- everywhere-
Advertisements from large corporations to small entrepreneurial start ups and mom and pop local businesses are shifting how they look at the world, their business and most importantly their connection with you their audience.
There are notes and chords of inspiration, change, hope, optimism… starting to be played in the marketing tunes these companies are playing.
The way they are reaching out and connecting is shifting and possibilities and inspiration is blooming as a result of it.
Take a slightly different view and see what you notice in the messages you are seeing from businesses large and small in every media that they use to connect with their audience.
How can you let inspiration bloom in your small business or nurture it to bloom in your company?
This short video is an example of the new seeds being sown in how we approach and create marketing and let inspiration bloom for everyone who connects with the marketing message.
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women entrepreneurs
“You need to be realistic” “You need to face reality…” 
How often have we heard someone tell us these things, or found ourselves telling our children or others something like this-
These are refrains that often come up when a person is envisioning the possibilities open to them in life. When they are stretching their inspired muse and thinking out side of the box!
The irony is that these people are not really thinking outside of the box- they are thinking from the theory of everything and in alignment with the way things actually work in quantum consciousness .
Hugh?
The reality people talk about that we need to be realistic about… does not exist. [click to continue reading…]
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