Tapping into the power of synchronicity

I read two posts this week about synchronicity. One by Irene who firmly believes synchronicity is the meaningful coincidence that her spirit guides are placing in her life, another by Hunter who is not very sure and yet attracted a Lamborghini Gallardo. (Hunter, if color is a critical factor about your car choice, you need to say “I want a hunter green Lamborghini Gallardo.” not just “I want a Lamborghini Gallardo.” And don’t be too surprised how you would get it.) (Photo by Mr. Greenjeans)

I guess this is a synchronicity by itself. I don’t think there is a meaningless coincidence or mere accidents. Everything is organized – it’s just we don’t see the meaning most of the time. It takes high level of awareness to understand the meaning of synchronicity.

Synchronicities are gifts from the spirits. I met Neale Donald Walsch by synchonicity this year. That meeting let me start writing about spirituality on this Yes to Me blog. Also, I received two bouquets of flowers. I was just taking a walk that evening, and bam, I got flowers, and more importantly, a very nice friend.

Now it turns out (surprise, surprise) that this lady is on a sister city committee of our local city. I live in a small suburban city south of Portland, and it has a sister city program with a city in Japan called Kitakata. So she invited me to join when the Kitakata delegation visit our city this year.

What would be the chance to strike up a conversation with a friendly and committed pro-Japanese American just by taking a walk? And eventually being invited to an official lunch held at the Japanese consulate’s home? Well, that’s what’s happening tomorrow. It will be a big long day for me, so I’m posting this Gratitude Friday a bit early.

Are you open to the gifts of synchronicities? Or are you afraid of receiving such gifts? Do things that you don’t completely understand make you uncomfortable? If so, why do you need to be so in control?

Yes to Me has new tagline and design

I know I’ve been talking about the tagline of this blog for the last two months. I started Yes to Me to share tips about entrepreneurship as I learn and become more well-versed in my own business myself. I then realized that personal and spiritual development is the true foundation of successful entrepreneurship, and started writing about it (like this one about life purpose and illusion of self).

The challenge has been: How can I bridge the seemingly unrelated two concepts together, the material world success (including success as entrepreneur) and spiritual development? Within myself, it is seamless – but how can I help others see it? There are still many people who think money is dirty and spiritual people must live in clean poverty!

And then I noticed. Well, duh, that is the objective of this blog. So I changed the tagline to:

Yes to Me — Spiritual Healing and Growth for Greater Success

Do you like it? I also updated my About page, so please check it out

Yes to Me is also getting a new outfit. My web designer and I finally agreed on the new header, so she will be installing the new theme in a few days. I’m very excited about this – it is beautiful! Please pardon the dust while we work on the final cleaning up.

My Law of Attraction Dream Money Project, Week 15, $1,638,400

I’m taking a time out today. Honestly, I’ve been spending so much time in this design update work that I completely forgot that my dream money was waiting for me. I promise I will follow up.

Does anyone know a good way to use this much of money?

How luck, or synchronicity, came into my life today

Happy Easter, my readers. I understand Easter is a celebration of renewed life. For me, it is a beautiful time in spring to appreciate the gift of life and review if I am living it fully.

What we do is a big part of our lives. I have been thinking a lot recently about my coaching business and its marketing. Some of you may have noticed that I changed the tagline of this blog from “For Tomorrow’s Successful Entrepreneurs” to “Life Purpose, Passion, and Entrepreneurship” I’m clarifying my niche – in other words, I am redefining my target market and my message. And this is a scary process because choosing something is about letting go of others. After tons of brainstorming, I thought I could really use a little guidance . . .

My guidance came unexpectedly. After I visited my CPA’s office this morning, I stopped at Powell’s Books nearby. There was a book-signing event going on – an old man was talking to a bunch of people. I listened to him for a while and liked his non-arrogant way of talking, so I took a seat, still not knowing who he was. He was talking about how we are all spiritual and how the invisible power works behind the scene. It was Neale Donald Walsch promoting his new book, Happier Than God: Turn Ordinary Life into an Extraordinary Experience. I was surprised how down-to-earth he was – he wasn’t like a crazy bygod at some religious institutions at all. He was even funny!

BE who you intend to be whatever you are DOING

During the Q&A, he told us how he started to do what he does now. At that time, he was very frustrated because he wanted to be wisdom, to work as the wise-man helping people, but he didn’t seem to get there. In layman’s terms, I guess he was unemployed. That night, he was asked what he needed to DO right now, and he answered he had to do some grocery shopping. Then he was told, “Then go to the grocery store.” Neale responded with frustration, “You don’t understand. That is not what I want to do.” “You can BE what you intend to be whatever you are doing. Be the wise-man you want to be while doing the grocery shopping.”

So he went to Safeway. There he saw a woman with a baby cart. The kid was picking grapes while the mother walked off to pick up things from the shelf. When she saw what the kid was doing. she hit the kid’s hand, and the kid started to cry. So Neale walked up to the woman and quietly said to her, “You don’t need to do that to your child.” She got upset at him and yelled at him it was none of his business, blah blah blah. He again told her she didn’t need to do that to her child, in his wise quiet voice. Again, she bombarded him with her stories – how her husband lost his job that week, how tough things are for her, etc. Third time, Neale talked to her, and she started sobbing, asking him who he was. “Are you a minister of some kind?” By the time, a crowd was forming around them and listening what he had to say. By BEING what he intended to be, a spiritual worker, he became one, although what he went out to DO, a grocery shopping, had nothing to do with it.

What does this story have to do with my or your businesses?

On one level, the message is straightforward. We need to BE first before we DO it, BE it whatever we are DOING. If you want to become an entrepreneur, be an entrepreneur whatever you are doing now. Think as entrepreneur even when you are doing employee work.

When we do this, the X Factor of life kicks in. Coincidences start to happen. Like Neale walking into the situation where he could exhibit his wisdom. Or me walking into his book-signing and hearing what I needed to hear. This is the second takeaway of the story.

We are spiritual beings, and spirituality works in business as well.

We have the tendency to think of business in a superficial way. We tend to see only the doing part of entrepreneurship. I think this is quite an ineffective way of thinking. DOING it right is of course important, but there is this hidden working in entrepreneurship, the BEING part.

So I think my blog is about BEING a successful entrepreneur, the inner mechanics of thinking and feeling as a successful entrepreneur so that we can act as one. Maybe I just lost a group of readers who are only interested in the How-To’s, and honestly that saddens me. I am also excited about this niche. There are a lot of good teachers and their blogs about the doings of entrepreneurship, and there are also a lot of great personal development and spiritual growth blogs, but I don’t know many writers who effectively connect the two points. Jonathan Fields occasionally writes about it (like this post), but that’s about all I know. This is still a pioneer field.

From experience, I know that synchronicity starts working when I embrace my spirituality.

In fact, my next post is about another synchronicity I had this past week and the great motivational speaker I had the honor to interview. Stay tuned.

Do you see synchronicity working in your life and in your business?