We're flushing our toilets with buckets of water this week. We have water bottles lined up next to the Berkey for drinking and brushing our teeth.
We normally use maybe 100 gallons a day; currently, when we open the valve at the meter so we can shower, refill our buckets, and run the dishwasher, we're clocking in at about 100 gallons an hour. That's an abundance of water gushing down into the orange Virginia clay deep under our front yard, I tell you what.
While the bars illustrating gallon usage on our monthly water bill have been growing curiously taller and taller the past few months, the bars in the Wave app for my sturdy toddler of a business have been doing the same thing: a little higher, a little higher.
As February yawned itself awake, I set an intention to do everything in my power to make space — and continue to take small, daily steps — to surpass the first of several financial goals I've had since the beginning.
This was a big one: reach the point where my income alone would meet or exceed our family's monthly living expenses.
This is a big deal for someone who supported herself on a private-school teacher's salary as a 20-something in Northern Virginia, and who did the unpaid (but mostly wonderful) full-time+ work of raising her kids all through her 30s.
So, February: tiny step after tiny step, and in it came—an influx of additional amazing work opportunities with interesting, heart-centered people, that pushed me over the line of my first big business goal.
Taking my cue from the pipe near the water meter, my next lesson feels clear: learn how to hold abundance. Without cracking. Without leaking out the side. Without straining the system and having to trudge outside and shut off the source altogether.
Just providing a channel, letting it flow, and allowing it to exit freely out the other side. Rinse, repeat.
Good news: the plumber's coming tomorrow with his “listening tools” to pinpoint the leak. (Sounds like a séance to me, tbh.)
Good times: we discovered that the community building in the development where we live has a shower in the family bathroom next to the exercise room! (Glory day…)
Speaking of good: I'm picky about who I work with. I help good people doing good things make good money.
Know why?
Because when service-oriented people learn how to shine, and how to create and hold abundance, they use that abundance to flood even more of their light into the world.
And that's good for all of us.
So let's go, all of you magical and marketing-averse doers of good things! Your gifts are important. Your people are waiting.
The time is now.
Note: I'm fully booked for March; now scheduling start dates for April & May.
