Sometimes all it takes is a simple shift in perception to change reality. A move, an ending, a beginning, a change can also do what’s needed to shake up our world and create an incremental or quantum shift in our lives, or businesses. (for those who are business owners)
For me, a recent move across the street has dramatically transformed my world and in some ways ironically remained the same. So, to do my best to make it relevant for you, I’ll start by rewinding briefly back in time.
First of all, after living in transition in different forms for the past several years after breaking both my arms and losing my home and my credit in the “Big Short,” most recently, I was incrementally rebuilding my life and business from a one bedroom apartment in Saint Paul – a great apartment with a lot of light and a great view. However, my office was in my bedroom and my studio was in my living room, which I made work. It also made financial sense since I was living without debt or credit. But, as I, and my business grew, I was beginning to outgrow it.
Even though my pocket book said no, on paper it made no sense, my heart, my soul and my business mind began to dream and imagine a more conducive space to photograph and work with clients, create videos, entertain and host community gatherings and film screenings, have a plot of grass to sit outside, cook in a modern kitchen, luxuriate in a shower that offered more than a trickle, have closer access to laundry and less than 4 flights of stairs to walk up and down multiple times with groceries, laundry and equipment – A live/work space, that was not only functional and within my means, but also beautiful, light-filled, and purposeful to grow my financial and humanitarian wings to a higher ground.
So, here I am now several months later across the street in this exact space, roughly 3300 days from when I broke my first arm and, other than a couple of small loans from friends to make it through the hump of a 2015-6 holiday move transition, I am still debt and credit free. My arms both work great, my business has grown, I am in love in many ways, including romance. My abundance and happiness set point are higher. And, now that my new space has become part of my new reality, I’m aware of the paradox of fulfilling my earlier imagination, and being reminded that it is not an “arrival” at all, but a continued journey that requires my continued imagination to grow forward.
I’m also aware of the paradox of “not looking back” while being on higher ground within myself and my new live/work space and “looking back” because even though I am in a new space, I brought “me” with me, my strengths, my gifts, my vulnerabilities, weaknesses, worries, and habits-good and bad.
I guess it’s true that no matter how far away we go, that we can’t run away from ourselves. We can however do our best to remain present, be diligent with our gratitude’s, healthy habits, thought and feelings mastery, and take responsibility that “we are the one’s we have been waiting for.” We can also remember that it is up to us to take steps one by one and/or be open to quantum leaps forward towards our continued unfolding future.
It’s suppose it’s like climbing a mountain, just because we’re at a higher elevation, does not mean we don’t have to take the mechanical steps of putting one foot in front of the other, to continue to rise. In fact, it may even require more of our imagination and our “mechanics” as the elevation rises. So, as a witness to the power of my own imagination as you may also be, I accept the reality of these steps, am building in time to enjoy the view as I climb, and am continuing incrementally up the mountainside remaining attentive to Divine shortcuts and magical moments along the way.
