THE DOOR OPENER NEWSLETTER

June 2005

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BEYOND WORKING HARDER OR SMARTER: WORKING WITH
by Beverly Sastri

In any team sport there are times when you should take the lead and times when the best thing you can do is pass the ball or puck to a teammate. It's the same with the sport called "building my business" - from a universal perspective every one of our visions is a team effort. When we forget to ask for and be open to assistance from that larger energy, we are like the basketball player who refuses to ever pass the ball - we miss important opportunities and slow or sabotage our own progress. There is another way!

WORKING WITH - IT WORKS!

Susan went to a friend to declare her renewed determination to build her business. She made it clear she was no longer going to let her fears and concerns get in the way; that she had a renewed commitment to making the business happen. The next week Susan received a phone call from a local newspaper - they had heard about a class she was teaching and wanted an interview. The story appeared on the front page and new clients began calling.

Tom was just leaving on a trip when he learned of a newspaper article that, while directed at a different company, could create serious public relations issues for his own organization. He passed a newsstand while walking to the airline gate and a book title caught his eye: "Integrity - It's All You Have". Those words crystallized his intentions and became the basis behind every action he took to manage the fallout from the article.

What do these individuals have in common? Susan and Tom not only accepted their own responsibility for managing their businesses - they also worked cocreatively with the larger universal energy to generate results.

ACHIEVE MORE WITH LESS EFFORT

Cocreation begins by perceiving yourself and everything else in the world as one inseparable, interrelated sphere of energy. You are literally swimming in an energy pool and your every thought, word and action becomes a wave-form in that pool . . . interacting with all the other wave-forms and bringing back to you all manner of unforeseen synchronicity, confluence and guidance. When you consciously interact with this energetic dynamic, your purposeful intention has the effect of focusing and increasing the support, opportunities and guidance that come your way. Following are three key steps in the cocreative process.

STEP #1: BALANCE YOUR THINKING MIND WITH YOUR HIGHER TRUTH

Our personal connection to this energy pool can be experienced through what many call their "gut instinct" or "clear voice within". I call this our higher truth. Our higher truth is the natural complement to our thinking minds. It is the source of our insights and creativity. Sadly, most of us were raised to rely primarily on our intellect for guidance, especially in the area of business. As powerful as your intellect is, it only represents half of your full capability - and its power is enhanced exponentially when you link it to your higher truth. It is not an accident that successful CEO's are often referred to as visionaries; their success comes from using their thinking minds and their "gut instincts" in determining business strategies and creative ideas.

STEP #2: WHATEVER YOU CAN ENVISION, YOU CAN CREATE

Many of my clients have a new or existing business they want to build. The most successful are those who have a clear, personally compelling vision for their business: its purpose, its success, and the difference it makes in their own and their customers' lives. Experiencing passion and enthusiasm for your business is a clue that what you are pursuing is in alignment with your higher truth. And as your higher truth is given by the larger universal truth, your vision points to what you are meant to create. From an energetic perspective your vision naturally seeks its own manifestation into physical being - it has the same propulsion towards life as does your physical body. Our biggest challenge is to get out of our own way long enough to allow our vision to do what it's designed to do - become a reality.

STEP #3: DON'T WORK ALONE - WORK WITH THE UNIVERSAL ENERGY

One of the best times to ask for help from the universe is when you are stuck - and interestingly, this is often the very time when in our frustration or outright panic we forget to ask. Instead we try to work harder or smarter, all the while missing the fact that the biggest problem is that we are trying to work ALONE. Instead of trying to solve the problem yourself, look around you to the people, insights and resources that patiently await your discovery.

Start to cocreate: make logical choices around your business while also pursuing directions that are presented to you by the universe. My own business plan is constantly being revised based on the universe's input. I've learned to trust that input and step into new opportunities regardless of whether I think I am ready or able. Practice passing the ball, and be ready to take the shot when the ball is passed back to you!

Summary: How to Cocreate a Business You Love

1. Work with the larger energetic dynamics that illuminate and affect your life.

2. Balance your thinking mind with your inspired, intuitive voice within.

3. Write a vision for your business that is personally compelling and evocative.

4. Notice the opportunities, lessons and guidance that occur to help you.

5. When you are stuck, pass the ball! Give the universe a chance to help.