TREADING WATER

These are the lessons I needed to learn today:
1. WHEN THE STUDENT IS READY, THE TEACHER APPEARS

I just met a homeless guy at Starbucks in Old Town. He was the most amazing artist. This guy was drawing highly detailed and colored cartoons. He handed me his book and let me flip through it. I was highly impressed. He told me he had sold a few books. I suggested to him that he give some of his work away. He looked shocked, and said that he couldn't do that. I explained further, that he could give some of his work away free on the internet. Just start a website with free comics people can read, then set up a PayPal account to take donations. Then he could make snippets of his other comics to sell. He said he would open a checking account so he can take PayPal. Wow, I'm great at thinking up ideas for other people, why can't I do this for myself?

2. GIVE IT AWAY
Giving it away is something I have been thinging about a lot lately. My entrepreneurial self wants desperately to get back into business for myself. Winter time is my natural time for incubating ideas. I am looking for the right idea, the right thing to give away to attract business.

The homeless artist started talking about why he was homeless. It was a lesson I needed to learn today He was homeless because he was carrying the paychecks for his boss, and he found out that someone had less seniority than he did and was making more money. He said that the price of apartments is too expensive. And he had to have two jobs just to afford the rent. I couldn't even answer. I just nodded. I realized that when I get to talking negatively about things in my life, all it attracts to me is negativity. Nothingness. Negativity keeps me imprisoned in a box of negativity

My spirit guide has been talking to me lately. I know you are going to think I am nuts for saying I have a spirit guide, but I do. This is what he has been telling me.

TREADING WATER: I have been treading water for quite some time. Neither moving here, nor there. I am in a state of limbo, waiting for my life to happen.

I AM THE CHOREOGRAPHER OF MY OWN LIFE
The universal spirit sends the ideas to me, I implement the plan, I come up with more ideas. I create the design.

EVERYTHING IN LIFE BOILS DOWN TO A CHOICE BETWEEN LOVE AND FEAR
--Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. (Thoreau)
So, do I want to keep on treading water? Or is it time to swim?