Float Boat, Fly High
November 28th, 2007 by Rose Rosetree
Flying back to
You can make from 3-15 stopovers. Just fly in one direction only from your point of origin. Information is available here. And this book is recommended for planning: Rough Guides’ First-Time Around the World.
So many decisions, so little time! Each day we are offered so many impulse choices for the moment? How can we choose wisely? The issue of choice has fascinated me for years,
and I’ve developed some techniques for research, using Deeper Perception. Starting the New Year, you might wish to have me help you to research wise choices for everything from hobbies to major career moves.
But you might prefer learning how to do quality research on your own. For the first time this January 6, I’ll be offering a one-day workshop called “Thrill Your Soul.” Consider yourself invited.
“Whatever floats your boat,” people say. Making choices sounds easy and breezy, but sometimes it is all too easy. At the end of the day you’re left wondering, “Was that choice smart?”
Wherever I go these days, people are having a hard time with choices. Mostly people agonize over “What am I supposed to do?” or “What does God want me to do?”
In a way, the concept is beautiful. Bit it also can be a way to avoid mastering the very human skill of learning, in depth and detail, what really floats your boat.
Blog-Buddies, what have you learned about making good choices? Do you doubt? Do you ask yourself, your guides, whom? Do any of you have trouble making decisions?
Something that really changes how you make decisions is poverty. Real (financial) poverty, the kind where a single trip a month to Starbucks is a huge luxury, forces you into giving up decisions that you normally feel like you could not live without making.
Decisions are not hard to make when the only answer is NO. Poverty takes away a lot of decisions and brings about new but equally difficult decisions.
Deciding every day that you are going to do your best to just flow with that day’s events (or lack of events) is often the only way you have of coping without things you no longer have. This can be a very difficult decision to carry out, and it has to be made again and again until your soul or some other part of the universe releases you from poverty.
So true, Anonymous One.
Any kind of major drama, like poverty or big illness, takes away a lot of the fun of free will. Sometimes we can’t do much to prevent this, because it is written into a life contract.
But much can. That is one reason to use Deeper Perception, to pay attention to the subtler invitations. For instance, the client who struggled for two years in a program that didn’t suit her; advance research might have taken away that minor drama and source of self-esteem negation.
I can resonate with anonymous (although there’s no Starbucks here, I get excited every paycheck when my huge luxury is a big latte from the only local coffee shop). I’ve struggled with poverty for much of my life, and have been tossed back into those waves most recently as a number of “great (although they don’t feel so
life changes” have occurred.
Although it is difficult, and I haven’t been able to eat the good and healthy foods I’d gotten used to, I do realize how much I’m learning. For me, I sense that I’m back in this situation because there’s something I need to learn, as opposed to being arbitrarily trapped.
What have I learned since I’ve been in Kentucky, scraping by financially with many bills for which I literally have had no bank balance to pay?
For one, we’re all doing the best we can. I’ve come to realize that I’d gotten a bit snobby, living near DC where lavishness seems to be the rule. How could my clients NOT afford organic food? How could they NOT afford fresh fruits and vegetables or free range meat? Where were their priorities? Now I’ve been thrust into a situation where I can feel stuck, and remember how to connect with and help people based on their unique resources.
Do I get frustrated? Sure. But when I step back from the drama (which I definitely get sucked into!), I fully trust that my situation is here to remind me and to teach me. I believe that the restriction I feel will pass when I’ve learned what it’s here to teach me.
Well, isn’t this post up my alley?? ha ha ha
There is much to learn in poverty as well as financial security, poverty creates a much more simple way of life that is for darn sure!!
And because I have come to accept my inner over all simplicity I have accepted this way of life and chose to look at the beauty of the simpler things in life, so it is not all bad cause we who are struggling can sometimes see things clearer because we have learned to simplify.
And it is so true that poverty takes away many decisions that people with money can make, but we who are lower in the ladder of financial success have unique decisions as well that those who have financial means do not have to make. So we should not look at ourselves as less, or limited, but uniquely different in this aspect.
I hope this made sense lol
*hugs* Everyone!