Since I’ve been immersed in self-discovery/self-improvement work in San Francisco — literally every single person I meet is a life-coach and a public speaker; I’m not sure if other professions are actually legal — I’ve made so many immense breakthroughs and discoveries.
But I realize I’ve just gone too far.
Every single person I encounter online or in the real world has a $197 coaching package guaranteed to change my life, and I want to buy them all … and yet I not only cannot, it’s obviously also a little excessive (if not insane) to do so.
I’ve had about 8 meetings and conferences with all sorts of marketing and branding and PR people in the last 2 weeks, too. There were varying degrees of insight and many great brainstorms and lots of marketing refinement as you would expect, but frankly, it’s just gotten to be a little too much.
The Universe has been sending me increasingly bizarre and hilarious messages about this, all of which I now realize are a bracing slap in the face that “maybe you don’t need any more external help” and “consider that you’re struggling against a non-problem — OK, maybe a minor one — and therefore magnifying the situation.”
I think my experiences are wake-up calls from the universe to make me realize not only the value of my own ideas AND my creations, but also that I actually don’t need any more consultants. It’s gotten to the point where people are trying to bond with me by saying they had the same idea as a project of mine without acknowledging that I actually fully realized said idea and brought it to a global level of success — or echoing my own ideas back to me and wanting a huge commission for them. Well, when that happens it’s just time to stop asking everyone’s opinion.
It’s true that there are some straightforward immediate challenges (I deleted the word “problems”) I have to resolve ASAP, but honestly I’m over-consulting and the Universe is not at all happy with my lack of confidence in its Management Skills.
One of the things we Crackpots tend to forget is that (according to our worldview) we actually manifesting EVERYTHING. Meaning that I tend to think, “I’m failing at manifesting X, Y, and Z and therefore I’m a D minus manifestor. The reality is that, “Wow, I have an extraordinary life with almost everything falling into place except X, Y, and Z — and frankly those are just not here yet,” so how about if not an A+, at least an A … or even an A minus if I’m feeling cranky.
I think Henny Youngman made a career out of the one-liner, “Take My Wife … Please!”
I think the Universe is now offering me a huge opportunity to have a big laugh at the Cosmic joke of Over-Exploration and Over-Consulting.
So … “Take My Advice, Please”
(or maybe not — figure it out for yourself and frankly, you’re probably just fine as is.)
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