January 24, 2008 Sufficiency

I’ve spent a lot of time seeking abundance – and I no longer do that… Funny, it just came up for me in a completely different context – not environmental sufficiency, not financial sufficiency –

I belong to two Mastermind groups.  In one of them there are 7 members; in the other there are 4.  Now the four of us love each other.  And what came up for me today is this – I got that — But are we sufficient? 

Because we hiccoughed over the New Year and so far we have eached missed at least one of our weekly meetings – for reasons ranging from work to vacation to carelessness.  And 2 or 3 turns out to be insufficient.  And that’s the ‘problem’ with sufficiency… Because there’s no slop when anything happens.

The advantage of abundance is that it allows for tithing– Because it may not be possible for all to be sufficient in all ways.  My commitment in life is a world of spirirual fulfillment (abundance of that is certainly possible), social justice  and environmental sustainability.  And those last require that the abundant few provide for the insuficient many.

January 2,2008 We’re Baack

It’s 9:30 AM.  I substituted for a friend at a BNI meeting, so have cleaned up after Sadie and walked her, ate and was at that meeting at 7AM… returned in time to watch Camryn while Phil took Diamond to school.  Did my delayed 20 minutes of meditation and I’m preparing to facilitate my Mastermind group that starts in 15 minutes.  And am just taking a minute to say, “whew.”

Just completed that – and will put the coaching i got into this blog.  I too often write assuming you know that context for my writing.  And in life, context is decisive.  The context for Everything I Do is that we all  live in an Environmentally Sustainable, Socially Just and Spiritually Fulfilling world – My coaching is for that; my activities are for that.  Everything I do is for that.

December 20, 2007 Searching for My Mind

I listened to Paul Scheel yesterday and he completely opened my mind to possibilities that I couldn’t imagine… Just one statistic got me.  He says we receivew about 10 million bits of information a second and our conscious mind process about 40 bits.  I don’t care about the accuracy of the numbers.  Being off by a factor of 100 still blows my mind, even a thousand. 

A technology that can expand my processing ability by a factor of ten will thrill me.  I don’t know how much I will learn to learn.  I have expanded my ability to meditate using holosync and this notion of paraliminals greatly expands on that.  So I’m ending 2007 on a creative high.  First this notion of a radio voice and now an expanded mind (no, I’m not a fat head – c’mon).  It’s really been an exciting year for learning.  At least for a while I have to consolidate and process, but maybe not.  I love my paths.

Join one of my classes – you’ll start the new year right.

December 14, 2007 Year in Review

I don’t know if I’ll review anything – January was a longgg time ago, but it’s the kind o0f title that gets people to read it so…

I love the field of democrat contenders, have no idea who I’ll choose, and will be happy with whoever wins – as long as Al Gore is on his/her Kitchen Cabinet.  And I love the Republican field also; makes me chuckle.

I see too few movies – I watch last year’s, but that’s also the clothing styles I like.

I don’t feel disconnected from any tv shows – not sad to see any go — would love to see more go.  I love Monk, despite its embarrassing predictability (cannot understand how the stooge cop ever even made it on the force.) Enjoy the Closer (and did not like it’s new season premier – dishonorable, vicious and psychological torture – unbefitting of her –love her father, missed him since Northern Exposure); enjoy Heroes, but don’t understand why.  I liked LIfe, but it’s beginning to play out.  I even enjoy Daily Show re-runs (since the writer’s strike) ditto Colbert, but I hate the audience clamor.

For me this was the year of the ‘Mindset and Business Gurus’ – Jay Abraham (my mentor), Jack Canfield, Bill Harris, Chet Holmes, Alex Mondrossian (all co-mentors).. all wonderful.

One result is that I’ve shifted my thinking about my business. I deeply believe that giving away what people want, I will win trust and so business.  I give away a free 6-session seminar. 

Got a new grandson, a new son-in-law, a newly pregnant daughter, another seriously getting her life moving forward.  My dog is 17 1/2 (we think that it’s a lot more in dog years, she knows she’s a teenager, despite her several seizures).  And my cat is 15 and shows NO signs of age, ditto my wife and me…well me, some – I just got back from the gym and I’m a little tired.

I’ve gone through a minimum number of tagedies from people I love, though even only 1 is enough of a tragedy – in this case, my best friend’s son, who I knew his whole life; my doctor (health guru) for 40+ years, who fortunately bequeathed his talent and soul to one of his sons.

This year I exposed myself as a writer – 4 blogs, 2 weekly website essays, a novel entered into Amazon’s contest, and a number of my books for sale on my website. 

And I joined two mastermind groups

December 4, 2007 The Magnificent 7

I belong to two mastermind groups – If you don’t know what that is, you should find out — See Canfields The Success Principles or Joe Vitale’s Speak and Grow Rich.  They make sense.  When I meet with them, I feel  that I’m meeting with invisible parts of my brain, parts that I love and respect and that think for me in ways that I normally don’t.

Anyhow, one of them has seven membors – hence my title.  I’m inquiring into what I’m doing that causes my requests be ineffective.  It is the great challenge, because without feedback, why am I doing this, for whom am I doing it?  I think I’m writing about creating – am I writing for myself?

This is what I’ve been saying:Look at my website and look at 21 Awesome Results (Click on michaellipp.com/contributioncoaching/services – This is a brand new approach to giving you the benefits of group coaching.  Whether you say yes or no, I’d appreciate your feedback.

November 13, 2007 Just Rolling Along

Well, Friday the 13th comes on a Tuesday this month, but only good fortune flows from it.  Don’t know why I’m thinking of Al Jolson— Maybe I’m just singin’ my song.

I decided I need to go to the gym 4-5 times a week and I did that today (only one time today – my grammar gets ambiguous.)

Tonight is my Mastermind group.  This group is very strange.  We’ve been meeting weekly for over a month.  We still haven’t figured out any structure or a ‘project’ related structure.  But we’ve decided that we love each other and appreciate each other on a spiritual level.  I don’t know what value we want, but I’m confident that with a base of love and respect we can build valuable buildings.
I like this amoeba-ish quality.  I think there’s some way that we can jointly create something worthwhile, which isn’t what my idea of a MM group is.

November 5, 2007 Another Monday

It seems Mondays always start with a rush and the rest of the week catches up to it.  I meet with my Mastermind at noon; at 4 I’m meeting with old & new friends at teah Nimbus, then at 7:30 is my 5th Success Principles workshop.  And there’s stuff in between.

Since I work at home, the ins and outs of my day are different – I have no water cooler conversations or cubicle/office meetings.  I occupy myself with pet habits, occasional babysitting and I keep the house right for Nancy – I take my breaks cooking and cleaning.  All of that is my in-between; the first paragraph is my substance. 

Not quite – I write this, my other blogs and my weekly essays for my websites.  When I recite like this, I get the sense of the flow of my days.  I see busyness and no stress.  I am grateful for these Mondays of my life.  I love what I’m attracting.

November 1, 2007 Abundance

Years ago I kept a journal (from 2000 – 2003).  It was, like this, a daily looking at my life, a different life 8 years ago.  Much of it was based on my meditating from The Abundance Book by John Randolph Price.  For the next 40 days I am again doing that and it will show up here.  When I began this, 8 years ago, I had zero clients and after my first iteration I had 18 clients.  These meditations attuned me to the Law of Attraction and focused my attention on my connection with God.  I think of God as the energy of the Universe and myself as one of the infinite manifestations of that energy.  It is easier for me to speak of God than to speak of the “individually focused manifestation of the energy of Universe.”

There’s a constant oscillation for me between knowing and not knowing this, between being conscious and unconscious of this.  One reason I love writing is that my fingers always ‘know’, my mind never does.  Today’s meditation is:  God is lavish, unfailing Abundance, the rich omnipresent substance of the Universe.  This all-providing Source of infinite prosperity is individualized as me – the reality of me.

I won’t give the specific meditations again.  ‘Is’ is a funny word – I think of this as merely one of God’s aspects.

This was prompted by one of my Mastermind groups.  We agreed to communicate our purpose with each other.  What’s yours?