Update from the Field(s)

I’ve been pretty busy attempting to live that fancy DDP (Definition, Direction and Purpose) I shared with you. It never ceases to amaze me that the more clear I become, and the more stable my intention, the more arises. It’s been pretty amazing.

The CEO at the company I am now solely working with gave us a verbal approval on a one year, exclusive retainer. That’s huge. That’s the “field” in which I’ve chosen to do my next chapter of work in becoming a leader.

Also, since I last posted, my wife and I are now under contract to buy 11 acres of beautiful land in Oregon’s wine country. We’ve been working together on that project, and working in co-operation with nature (more on that in the future), and things have been flowing. We scared. Cash is tight to make the 20% down required these days and cover some income taxes we didn’t anticipate. The credit market is crazy. And the news today says house prices have dropped another 19% and only 2% of American envision buying a home in the next 6 months. But, we feel this in our bones, we’ve been working with this for 18 months, and there’s the gap. And we think we’ve found our chosen field in which to stand together.

Today I noticed something funny about myself. I’ve seen it before, but not while I was doing it. What I noticed is how I will get “prepared” to produce a work product by doing a bunch of activity that I think is required to prepare to produce that work product. It’s hard to describe. But I can see this in some of my family members–seeing it in them has helped me see it in myself.

This time I caught myself “preparing” to work–and I stopped the activity cold. Dusted and done. I didn’t know exactly what to do, but I knew that wasn’t it. So I stopped. And took Stone, our beloved Blue Heeler, for a walk. As I walked in the “Oregon mist” (what the Chamber of Commerce here calls rain), I could see precisely the work product I was working toward. But!

But instead of working my way towards it, I can now cut straight to it. I don’t know if that makes any sense to you. Personal insights are like that: they are hard to ex-plane. But now I have found myself in yet another field. I just had to walk around myself to find it. And there are springs there, in that field. And the air smells like spring, and renewal, and the new coming into form.