When your mantra for the month is “I finish what I start” DO NOT take on eleventy million more things than usual. (Hi Dissonance! We meet again!)

We interrupt this whining for some important news:

Dude at work has broken his “You do not exist” fast and has finally acknowledged me. So, that’s interesting. What’s more interesting to me is the dream I had about it last night where he came into my work area (called “the cage” – no kidding, it really is called that) and talked to me about why he was ignoring me. Something about his great aunt being sick and blah blah blah … not sure I remember all the details. In the dream, I told him it felt weird to me to be ignored – pointedly so. He apologized for that and we ended it on a good note. Odd, though. It was a very vivid dream and yes, I do believe souls can address things like that in the “dream time”. I found it interesting that he came to me about it. (He appeared in the cage which was doubly odd because brokers and most other staff are NEVER allowed in there for a variety of compliance reasons.)

Hello Dissonance, my old friend

Okay, so here’s where I get to say why I’m a dolt. I’ve taken on three big blog-related projects this month (really four if you count that blasted newsletter which I do). I am often lucky to finish ONE big project much less four! The other day I realized the folly of my actions. (I make that sound all calm but I was really like this: “Lisa!! What. Are. You. Doing?” and promptly went to sit in my (this time metaphorical) closet.) GAH!

I’m doing the Money Manifesting study group, the “31 days to a better blog” program with a big bunch of other chicks, and I’m also doing a group coaching for weightloss thing. Add to that the newsletter (which is really aggravating me that I can’t figure it out), moving my blog from WP.com to a hosted server (technical and scary) and readings and commenting and bears, oh my!

I mentioned to Duty that I jump in with both feet, get overwhelmed and then hide and don’t finish anything. So, I decided to not take on any more “projects” at this time (good start), diligently work at the ones I have taken on (Angels, help me) and keep saying “I finish what I start.” Today, I plan to work extra hard at my projects with maybe a break for a dip in the pool. Baby steps, Lisa, Baby steps.

And I love her

Finally, clearing off that other computer (yes, I am doing that!), I found this email between me and Lauren. It made me smile AND miss her so so so much (more than usual).

Lisa wrote:
How is it you are my bestest friend in the whole whole whole world? Because you know me inside and out.
I loves ya

From: Lauren
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 1:30 PM
aww well yes, it is because we ARE the same inside and out!! and that’s tough to beat! ;D
loves you tooo

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(I love this. Duty says “You love everything.” and he’s right. I do. Everything. Even Dick Cheney. —> okay, not everything.)

Did I tell you that the Angels told me to let Duty pick my manifesting word for this month? Feh. He chose “Follow-through”. (Stabs him) And they also told me to allow him to chose one of the actions to embody that vibration. (Stabs Angels) He chose this: I have a desktop computer that I haven’t touched since 2005. (no lie) It has many, many of Lauren’s emails on it from back before I used Gmail. I really want to keep those but that entails firing it up and doing some serious saving. This is (one of) my task(s) for the month.

My mantra: “I finish what I start.” (note to self: start nothing and you’ll be home free! hah)

(sigh)

So, yeah. Have I started it? Nope. Does he remind me of it often? Yep. (stabs self)

Lots of stabby action going on. What’s that about?

Happy Monday, (three) peeps! Believe it or not, I got in the pool TWICE this weekend! Neighbor Greg had rigged up some concoction where he recycles the water through a hose that is heated by the sun and runs it back into the pool. Bottom line: 85 degrees = me in the pool! I was in there for just a little while on Saturday but did about a half hour of floaties on Sunday while listening to the neighbor dude’s lawn mower. (Although loud sounds generally bother me, stuff like that doesn’t at all. In fact, I rather like it.) It was most luffly. Duty was sidelined all weekend with a headcold of some sort so I was mostly on my own.

So, check it: my buddy Kara at Conduit of Joy wrote the sweetest post about me and my mad intuitive skillz. That tickled me all to pieces. As I wrote in a comment under the post at her blog, from the moment we talked that first time, I knew we’d be fast friends. We speak the same language of the Woo but are also mental as well (not THAT kind of mental, kids!) – loving the research end of things and learning and whatnot. I just love her. (Can you tell?)

Not only that happy news but the nice young man I’ve been practice coaching (for free) over the past few months has asked to continue our coaching relationship as a paid service. YEY! He’s my first official coaching client. What’s funny is that he found me on a “totally unrelated to the woo-woo” board (AskMeFi) and he really didn’t know all the ins and outs of where, exactly, my intuitive skills come from. It’s been a growing experience for us both and when he raised the idea of continuing for a fee, I did a small dance around the room. heheh (Shhh! Don’t tell anyone, K?)

So, things are picking up and I will tell you (transparency and whatnot) that I am thisclose to making my manifesting goal for June ($450) raised ONLY through fees from PI stuff. (Word for the month: integration) – I am so not kidding, peeps. This manifesting thing WORKS if you do the steps. I swear. Each month I am raising the amount just by a bit and it appears. Out of thin air. I don’t even really wonder how – it just does.

Since I promised a newsletter in July, I suppose I should get working on that, eh? (Has a small spazz out but regains composure quickly. Sorta.)

GO UNIVERSE! Woot Woot!!

I got a couple last minute requests and the amounts were over and above the suggested donation and that put me right up close to the goal of $400. As I was telling Duty about it, he said he meant to tell me earlier that he’d like me to do a reading for a friend of his and he’d kick in the last $20!!

YEY!!! I’m happy that I did it, that so many people wanted readings and that the manifesting piece of it worked out perfectly even though, as noted, I lost a bit of steam last week. Apparently, the Universe decided I needed a boost and jumped right in. Gotta love it!

So, a big thank you to my fans Jody and The Gal for helping carry me through this (dissonance and all) and for being so supportive of my work. Thanks, too, to my friend Jen-Jen for being one of my good cheerleaders on Facebook!

What have we learned? We learned that we can get through dissonance, we can come out from behind our curtain and CLAIM who we are (why am I talking in the third person?) and we are ever so much more sure that this is truly our soul work. I’d say that’s a good thing, yes?

Yep, still here. I wrote this big long post at work on Friday and then decided to let it sit and marinate. Talking with my coach on Saturday helped me put all this into perspective. And, FWIW, Jody, she was right there with you on your comment to me. I totally got it. Totally. This whole week has been about self-authority. And how I assert that. Most especially, handling it when others don’t overly like me doing that (coughDUTYcough) because they are used to something different.

So, below the cut is the rest of the story (as Paul Harvey would say). Be warned. It’s long and somewhat detailed. But if you wanna know how dissonance shows up when you shift a vibration, this is a good illustration.
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Hi kids,

How did I let a day go by (or two!) without updating ye olde Snarkypants?? Sometimes I run out of stuff to say. (I know, right?) Here’s what I’ve been working on, though.

To help me reach my “Readings for Hope” goal, I decided to go back to my nifty Manifesting project that brought me great good fortune last time. If you remember, here’s the basic premise:

Basically, it’s this: In order to manifest money (which is really just energy), you have to assign it an energetic address. For example, let’s say that you want to manifest $1000 and have said that this amount of money in your bank account would make you feel relieved, or joyful or whatever emotion you choose. Once you’ve figured that part out, then you have to do some real down-to-earth things to bring that energy into your life more.

Okay, so this go-round, I decided that my word for the month would be SERVICE: service to self, service to others and service to the Universe. I chose $400 as the amount of money I wanted to raise by May 31. Therefore: SERVICE = $400. Got that?

I decided on a few strategic action things I could do in the physical to embody the word SERVICE:
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What a day I’ve had, kids! It helps to get focused early in the morning because I whipped through three readings I had on my To-Do list and did a whole bunch of woo-woo business related stuff. Five hours – just like that. It was great, though. And I got *the most lovely* compliment on a reading I did for someone. It was so touching that it made me cry (but in a good way). I’m going to print it out and put it in my journal for keeps.

Also, new post over on Practically Intuitive about how even intuitives need guidance once in a while.

So, yeah. I promised Gal I’d write a post about the Money Manifesting program I have been doing for the past two months. It was created by Andrea Hess at Empowered Soul. Andrea also created and facilitated the Soul Realignment work that I’ve studied in the past. She’s a dynamo – full of ideas and processes. I’m amazed at all she’s done in a short period of time to bring big concepts down so they are easier to understand. Big work!

I will explain the concept in a nutshell (because, truly, there is much more to it) and share with you what I’ve done with it.

Basically, it’s this: In order to manifest money (which is really just energy), you have to assign it an energetic address. For example, let’s say that you want to manifest $1000 and have said that this amount of money in your bank account would make you feel relieved, or joyful or whatever emotion you choose. Once you’ve figured that part out, then you have to do some real down-to-earth things to bring that energy into your life more.

So, if you’ve chosen joy as your energetic address, you start to think of things that make you feel joyful – that bring more joy into your life. And you do as many of those things as you can. That lifts you automatically into that energy. And since you’ve said $1000 = joy, then those dollars will come through. The hitch is – you have to do the real life actions to create that energetic state for yourself to attract the money.

(Mind you, I am taking 100 pages of her work and sifting it down to one paragraph so bear with me if it’s not too clear yet.)

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