Here’s the lesson I’ve been busy learning for the last two weeks: When our intention changes, the process we use to create what we want must also change accordingly.
If you’ve been on my mailing list for the last year or so, you may have noticed that I’ve been in a whirlwind of growth and expansion. I’ve launched bunches of new classes and programs and significantly shifted the focus of my business in the last ten month. It’s been a storm of positive change with awesome results. The way I’ve gotten used to operating in the last year has mirrored my desire for rapid growth – lots of quick action and content creation on the fly. That was appropriate to the results I wanted to create.
My intention for 2010 is entirely different. I know how to manifest money. Now, my attention is focused on sustainable business systems and structures that allow me to work a whole lot less and give my clients and students a more cohesive experience at the same time. The energy of that intention is peaceful, centered, and relaxed.
Sounds nice, right?
For the last two weeks, I’ve been completely stuck in unreasonable struggle over creating a new product (called Money Manifesting Mastery – it is going to be amazing!) My normal operating mode of the last year would have allowed me to put the whole thing together in about a week. I would have launched into recording the audio, created transcripts and worksheets, trusting all the while that the material would organize itself during the process. Basically, it would have gotten done in no time at all!
Instead, I’ve started, only to start again, review, and start yet again. By the middle of last week, I was thoroughly frustrated. What happened to my ability to create content quickly and efficiently?
The answer is, of course, ridiculously obvious in hindsight.
If this product is to be part of my business for 2010 (and it definitely is!) and my intention for 2010 is completely different from this year, then obviously my creation process needs to reflect that difference. If I hadn’t been pig-headed about it for a week or so, insisting on doing my work as usual, I would probably be announcing my new product launch right about now!
Once I realized that the energy of my intention and the energy of my creation process were at odds, everything became very obvious. I let go of my intended launch date. I let go of my “usual†way of creating content. I put myself into the energy of my intention and began creating from that space – peacefully, methodically, without any hurry whatsoever. And of course, it all began to fly.
Has your intention for your life shifted recently? How do you need to adjust “business as usual†to reflect that intention? Have you been struggling, trying to hold on to how you “normally” operate?
Blessings,
Andrea
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Andrea you know I luv ya! You’ve done it again, lady. As I was reading this my life was flashing before me with waves of creative triumph and confounding frustration. As you so clearly realized and articulated we are too eager to revert to old thought. We need to more fully embrace and honor our creatve power in a universe that can’t wait to manifest our next intention.
Great article Andrea. I completely changed the way I did business for the month of October, at the beginning of the month I was still operating from my old mindset, in a daily struggle,at the end of the month Im in the new mindset and earnt more money and had way more spare time than the old way of doing it. My life feels like im on holiday with a bit of work thrown in, rather than a workaholic with a bit of life thrown in.
Saturn, the planet that symbolizes structure, framework, responsibility, etc. is changing signs; moving from Virgo into Libra these last few days giving all of us walking the planet an urging to manifest in a manor unlike the way we may have been conceiving the last few months. A speed bump moment of reconsideration before we begin our work anew.
Yes… we have noticed your incredible growth! You work hard! You DESERVE it! ..and we’re all excited to see the new program
Best wishes Andrea
…and great article!
This is so pertinent, Andrea! Absolutely. I can relate.
My former intention was to bring some deep red, strong, stable energy into my life. My new intention is to bring a bright, golden-orange energy into my life, which feels feminine, light, playful and dynamic.
Usually, when I write a blog post, I first write a draft, then I leave it alone for a few days or even weeks, then I go and edit it, and then later again I re-read, re-edit it and eventually publish it. I also spend a lot of time thinking about what I want to write and how to say it and making plans on paper before writing.
But recently, when I asked my spirit guides which action I could take within the next hour to align myself further with my desired golden-orange energy, they suggested that I publish a new blog post. Not write, publish. No problem! I went to my list of drafts, asking which one of those would be most aligned with my intention. But they didn’t want any of those! They did like one of my blog ideas, but this one wasn’t written yet!
Whaaaat?! Write a blog post and publish it within one hour?! I got panic at first. But I did it and jumped into the cold water.
It feels really scary, but I can see how it absolutely makes sense. My old blog post writing process was just way too heavy to align with this dynamic, playful orange energy.
Thank you for reminding me that the energy I want to create also needs to be present in HOW I do things, not only in WHAT I do.
Love,
Rose.
Andrea,
This post made me smile — you’ll know why when you see my own post this weekend about “The New Way Forward.”
I couldn’t agree with you more about this phenomenon, and I know we’re not alone in recognizing it.
Slade
Allen,
Thank you for the comment regarding Saturn. I have been thinking it feels collectively like a big Saturn shift, or like a “Saturn Return for Everybody” lately.
Andrea, thank you for all the thoughts you share. You continue to open my mind to new possibilities and new awarenesses. thanks, Julie
Hi Andrea,
So appropriate! I couple of months ago, you mentioned to me that I was exhausted. Well, I also have changed the way that I do things. I made the decision to do only what I enjoy, and to say no to the offers that I won’t enjoy. The day that I said my first “no” I got 3 offers for part time, very lucrative work that will also be enjoyable!
Whoo, Hoo. As soon as we shift, the Universe shifts with us.
Thanks Andrea,
Matching intention and process is such an important understanding because it lines everything up to owrk on our behalf. So often when a shift is needed we must step back and see the disconnect as you so wisely did after only a wek of pigheadedness.
Mmm…Ahhh….reading this feels so good, so in alignment with my truth. Thanks for expressing and sharing your voice….how refreshing it is, and how refreshing you are.
Thanks Andrea for the amazing work you do in the world. Lookin’ forward to our interview!