True Confessions on Time, Energy, and Money.

Time, Energy, and Money ©2018 Joan M. Newcomb, CPC

My husband took the week off from work, before letting me know. I had a Telesummit scheduled for Tuesday, and my radio show Wednesday, plus my regular calls and meetings, so my calendar was super busy.

I work from home and it was challenging to maintain my focus with him being in ‘staycation mode’. I made it through the Telesummit but when my radio show co-host suggested that we air a rerun rather than a live show, I heartily agreed.

In Port Townsend, the house behind us is haunted!

After completing my regular calls Thursday, hubby and I took a “daycation” up to historic Port Townsend, and yet on the way I had this nagging feeling I was playing hooky - that I should be working.

Now here’s the thing, I work for myself, I work from home, my schedule is entirely my own. No one's gonna fire me for taking a day off.

I decided to record our show live on Wednesdays (although we do have to fit into an available spot in our radio station’s lineup), I decide I write my blog and send out my Ezine on Fridays. I choose to host Meetups on Saturdays or Sundays, I usually film my YouTube videos on Tuesdays (although the last two weeks I didn’t, due to the upcoming Telesummit).

True Confessions: NONE of these activities actually PAY ME. They’re all designed to support, help and enlighten others. And if someone decides to hire me for coaching, great.

Ironically, a lot of people I work with have money issues. When we shine a light on them, it often reveals they have trouble with their focus on time, and how they spend their energy.

Sometimes they have six figure incomes, but are miserable. They either hate their jobs, or hate their commutes. Or they’re spinning their wheels trying to make an income, feeling like they're going nowhere. They struggle with compulsive spending, credit cards, or underearning and deprivation.
They have confusion about the money or debt they do have, and vagueness about where their time is going.

As they gain clarity about their numbers and their actions, their circumstances rapidly improve. They feel feel more prosperous and abundant with less effort and stress. Because it actually isn't about the money, it's about the quality of their lives and relationships.

I spend my time and energy in ways that prioritize my relationships with my husband and now adult kids. I make choices based on my expanded perspective as Consciousness. I have a prosperous life and feel wealthy with my relationships.

My coach describes his schedule as "fiercely lifestyle friendly", which basically means that if it's going to compromise his values, he isn't going to do it.

I suspect he uses the word 'fiercely' because of the enormous morphic "work ethic" field that says you have to put in long hours, with a lot of effort and sacrifice in order to create a good life.

That nagging feeling I had yesterday? I was reacting to the same message, same morphic field.

As with anything in this world, the opposite is true.

The harder you try to attain something, the farther away it will be. Effort kills creativity. We give up so much power to these 'work ethic' ideals and completely miss the point that we're Infinite Beings and this world is our playground.

Realize that *you* are Consciousness and all the power is within you, not out there.

If you work a job-job, try being there as Consciousness, and see how it alters the experience for you. You may find it being more playful and fun.

If you're looking work, try approaching the interviews as Consciousness, and see how the dynamic changes.

Try prioritizing what's important to you, rather than what you think the world thinks is important, and watch how rapidly your life reorganizes in your favor.

When you use your time and energy as the infinitely creative and powerful Consciousness that you are, your world transforms.

Play with this for the next 7 days, and see what happens!

Being in Integrity

(c) 2010 Joan M. Newcomb

Being in integrity is a high value of mine.  To me it means walking your talk, being in agreement with your Expanded Self, being in alignment with Source, being your Essence self.

I respect teachers who are in integrity.  It doesn't always look pretty but they're walking their talk.  They're practicing what they teach.  Which can be a tough thing to do.  Your ego can get pretty inflated when the money starts rolling in and you have adoring fans that follow you from event to event.  It can be easy to play to the crowd rather than be true to your Inner Being.

We're not taught to be in integrity growing up.  In school and at home, we have to please the teacher or parent, get the right answers on a test, not question 'why' and certainly not attune with our inner promptings.

By the time you're an adult (and often before), you are so out of touch with who You are, that you don't know *what* you want (although you know what everyone else wants of you)!

When you start to turn within and respond from your inner Truth, often the shit hits the fan.  People get really pissed off you're not toeing the line.  *You* get really pissed off, when You wake up to how long you've been out of integrity with Your Self.  It's all part of the breaking-through process.

When you're lined up with your Essence Self, you feel really clear and expansive.  You know the right direction to go in.  It becomes easy to make decisions that would have paralyzed you before.  It also becomes easy to wait until you feel motivated to take action, to think for 24 hours before saying or doing something.  There's a sense of peace and acceptance and even joy, even if the circumstances of your life haven't appeared to change.

Being in integrity means:
-quitting the job you hate even if it brings in good money.
-saying 'no' to preserve your boundaries - even if your family or your group will be miffed.
-being true to Your Self rather than maintaining the status quo
-practicing what you teach
-doing the inner work rather than relying on externals (whether it's caffeine/alcohol, or other people)
-using discernment when following others' teachings (are *they* in integrity)?

But first you have to notice whether you're in integrity or not.  Are you?

How do you tell when you're in integrity?  It's not always clear from the outside.  Everything in your life doesn't suddenly become hunky dory.  You may still be dealing with money issues or relationship issues.  But you have an awareness of what you're going through.  You recognize you're peeling away the layers, you're working with your inner navigational system.

It takes courage to be in integrity when the outside world seems against it.  On the other hand, when you're in integrity, there's no other way to be.  You cannot not be True to your Inner Being, once you know how it feels.

Lining up with yourself doesn't have to be a radical process (although many people create it that way).  Take it one moment at a time, one decision at a time, one issue at a time.  A series of small course corrections can completely transform your reality.

Your assignment this week, should you choose to accept it, is to notice when you're in integrity.  When you're out, make the (tiny or big) shift to get back in.  And see what happens when you do!