Hi friends, if you’re reading this you’ll notice that our web site has been completely redone, trust you’re enjoying all that we’ve designed to add to the excitement of your journey with MORE.
I met my friend Kim at Starbucks on Memorial Day. She and her children were getting drinks as they prepared to watch the parade that would soon pass on the street outside. I, forgetting there was a parade, stopped by to get ice water for my bike ride.
Being the chatty Cathy I am we enjoyed a short conversation. We shared a few laughs and the outcome was Kim giving me her email address so we could chat at a later time. We reconnected several weeks later and as we became acquainted I learned of Kim’s expertise in marketing and her contacts in web design and other services.
After a lot of talking and getting together Kim and her crew were retained by me to update and create a new image for More to Your Life. Hiring her for this may not seem like much of an occasion to some but the interesting thing is, the first person I used to design my site I also met in Starbucks and was chatting with her for a long time also before we entered into an agreement to work together.
Coincidence? I think not. I have been looking back at all the people I have met in this coffee shop since I moved my office upstairs from it in 1995. I originally did not go to Starbucks because I really didn’t like the coffee. Truth be told except for the instant Via they sell it’s still not my favorite brew.
Since venturing into this special place I have made friends that have influenced and altered my life and have even had the blessing to be a positive impact on others. I’ve met folks that are having amazingly wonderful events taking place in their lives and others with serious health or financial challenges, relationship issues and so on.
I am no longer amazed at the connections I make with others as I continue my daily visits to this place. I am so aware today of the Spiritual energy that is present in all our lives that allows us to have these beautiful, marvelous experiences that I anticipate something new on each visit and I’m rarely disappointed.
What is amazing to me is how many of us pass these encounters off as chance, coincidence, fate etc. or worse don’t pay any attention to them at all, never realizing the powerful interaction that maybe about to or has just taken place. We meet, there is some exchange and we’re off to the next thing that needs to get done, place we need to go to etc,
Opportunities are missed every single moment of every single day in this way. We ask the Universe or our God for help, for new jobs for new friends for a lover and then walk right past the possible answer being put in front of us. We’re so busy being busy that we have no AWARENESS of what’s taking place around us and most certainly for us.
So my friends as you move through your busy life may I encourage you to be present in it: Be aware of the countless opportunities that are placed before you each day that are designed just for you, to enhance and enrich your life, and for you to touch others in positive and meaningful ways.
Embrace these encounters for the gifts they are to everyone.
Namaste,
JIM
