We’re celebrating one of the heralds of the beginning of Summer – Memorial Weekend in the US! This is a time where we honor the war dead of past (and present) wars. This holiday weekend is usually filled with parties and picnics and parades. It is also when neighborhood swimming pools open for the season, people put their boats in the water, and we start thinking about spending more time outdoors. I love this time of year!
There is always an excitement about the possibilities of Summer fun. Beach time, cookouts, gardening. We picked up our first delivery from the CSA we joined months ago. Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a great model of investing up front for a promised ROI. We paid for our share during the winter so the farmers raised enough capital to plant their crops. Then, from May through October, we get a weekly box of veggies. It’s like Christmas every Thursday, knowing we’ll have something delicious to eat and not knowing exactly what gifts will be in the box!
What other possibilities have you invested in lately? How about the Possibilities Playshop on June 14?Would you like to have a few hours of fun, in a group of folks exploring possibilities for the rest of 2014, and you’ll leave with your very own Playbook, with lots of ideas and themes and even some surprises for the coming ‘moonths’? We had so much fun creating our Playbooks in January that we’re doing it again for the Summer Solstice! Come join us, either in person in Severna Park, MD or via videoconference. And, if you attended the January Playshop or purchased the DVDs, you can come back AT NO COST! Here are more details:Playshop Link I look forward to se eing you on June 14! Today’s video is a clip from the January Playshop to let you know a bit about what to expect. There will be surprises, too!
We’re starting a new ‘moonth’ on the New Moon that happens Wednesday, May 28, at 2:40 pm Eastern Daylight Time. On that day, the Sun and the Moon will join in the sign of Gemini to focus the energy on the mind and our thoughts. We’re also experiencing a ‘Grand Trine,’ a big triangle in the sky with Jupiter at one point, Saturn at another, and Chiron as the third point. Think of structuring your purpose as a healer (and we are all healers of some kind!) in a new and expanding way as you bring heart and mind together seeking creative expressions of the possibilities you are exploring. This energy will help you to move beyond the learnings/challenges of last month’s Grand Cross!
Everything points to TRANSFORMATION! What possibilities will YOU explore now?
Celebrate Summertime fun! Have an outdoors kind of week. Smile at a stranger! Smile at a friend!
Mystic Messages 
Possibilities Are Right in Front of You – Richard’s Commentary
January 23, 2014 — RichardRosemary opens her post with a wonderful belief:
The ‘possible’ is constantly under attack because someone thinks it is improbable, or impossible, or difficult, or ‘not the way we do things.’
I call this a belief because it comes from an optimist! Optimists believe in the “possible” – and everything is possible!
I’ve been an optimist my whole life. I too believe anything is possible. This doesn’t mean everything I’ve ever attempted in life has succeeded, been possible in the long-haul. But this hasn’t changed my basic belief.
One of my last major programs for the company I retired from a few years ago was a satellite-based tracking system that we targeted to long-haul trucking companies. The idea was to offer a low-cost, easily installed device that could pin-point a unit’s location and even communicate with the driver using text messaging. The concept was developed long before smart phones, texting, immediate GPS-based location services, super-cheap hardware and ubiquitous cell-phone coverage. We developed the technology from the ground up and partnered with a new satellite company. We faced many hurdles, delays, technology short-fall, cost-creep and even market push-back. I was in charge of marketing and welcomed the possibility of major market penetration. I became really excited when we developed a device to track truck trailers when they were decoupled from their trucks. In fact during testing with a customer we actually located and recovered two trailers that had been stolen and taken into Mexico; we even helped recover the load on the trailers!
Exciting, right? My sales team began to take orders. The “pipeline” was growing! Major possibility here! Then…further delay; satellites didn’t launch as scheduled; technology failed; delivery of component parts was late; competing technology came on strong; and the company, wisely, withdrew development funding from my program. I took nearly a year to shut the program down, redistribute staff, sell off piece-parts, resolve lawsuits and close the program office.
Possibility turned to failure. I look back on this as a wonderful example of a “possibility right in front of me.” In this case it was handed to me; and I grabbed it and took it as far as I could. The program did not succeed; but I did! I made sales. I installed units and they recovered stolen equipment. That possibility was realized. And, oh by the way, I had a heck of a good time doing my darnedest to make the whole thing work. I even learned a great deal about the trucking industry! There was a lot of success inside this program that I look back on with good feelings and pride.
Eternal optimist? Yes. And I have had many great possibilities fall into my lap since that “failed” program. They keep on coming. My next one for 2014 involves a major trip mid-year that is exactly inline with my purpose and my entire world-view. It may be the biggest possibility of my life so far. I will be sharing more about this possibility as it unfolds, as I unfold it! Stay tuned!
Are you an optimist? Do you look at all the possibilities right in front of you? Do you follow Rosemary’s advice?
There are possibilities right in front of you but you may have donned your filter-glasses so that you can’t see them. Take off the glasses. Part the veil. Reach for the possibilities and stop listening to anyone who tells you that you can’t do it.
Impossible things are happening everyday!