Tag: comfort zone

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Overflowing gratitude: update & new link

© Grateful Living

Oh, my goodness! I am humbled, moved, and in awe of the overwhelming response to my request for support.

To be honest, it has turned into something of a spiritual test for me. What I mean by that is that this process is challenging all my feelings of unworthiness while also pushing me way out of my “receiving” comfort zone.

I keep wanting to say, “Stop! It’s too much!” But then I close my eyes, take a deep breath, and focus on relaxing my heart and opening to receive. 

After all, can one have too much love? Too much sincere friendship? I don’t think so, but allowing this much loving friendship to flow to me and through me is most definitely stretching and changing me.

And what a beautiful, beautiful process it is. I just wish I could find the words to express all that I feel.

Oh, well. “Grateful” will simply have to do.

P.S. There was a glitch with some of the mp3s. If you had problems opening or downloading, here’s the NEW LINK.

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Trial and error

There’s nothing like constantly attempting things that are completely out of your comfort zone to keep you humble.

This blog is an excellent case in point. I shared back at the beginning about how it took months to even start writing. And a few months ago I pushed through my resistance and learned how to make it possible for people to actually subscribe (or follow) the blog.

Well, I got a few subscribers but they weren’t actually receiving a notification when the blog came out. Oops! The only problem was that I had run out of oomph for that particular learning curve and so it just stayed like that for quite some time.

But it’s a new year with new energy, so it was time to try again! Ramesha helped get me going and I started tackling the next learning curve.

Created the email, set up the schedule, and awaited the notification. It came — yay! Opened it and tried to click through to the blog post — Nothing. Niente. Nada.

Back to the drawing board.

Realized that it’s up to me to enter the hyperlinks (duh). Which I did, then rescheduled the email, awaited the notification. It came — yay! Hyperlinks worked — yay!

But then I received an email from a friend (thanks, Erin!): “I love that spontaneously I’m finally getting these emails about your blog. I signed up awhile back but they never came until now. But there’s no link to click?? Lol  😂  maybe I’m missing something?”

Hmmm…guess I didn’t put the hyperlinks where people would actually find them to click on! Arrrgghhhh!

Hopefully the third time really is the charm, but I can’t help but think about the people who really know what they’re doing when it comes to this kind of stuff, which seems really impressive to me right now. On the other hand, most of them have probably never played Mozart’s G major flute concerto. For what it’s worth. 😄

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Pat on the back time!

Today marks six months of daily blogs and I’m celebrating in two ways:

First, I’m giving myself a major pat on the back for having stuck it out and made it this far.

And second, I’m stretching even further out of my comfort zone by inviting readers to follow the blog, which means they can choose to receive an email notification of each published blog post (this will allow me to stop clogging up our Ananda Village “Nextdoor” site with my daily posting announcements, though I’ll still post a link to Facebook each day).

For sure there’s plenty of inner resistance as I take this step, but I also feel Swami urging me to ignore the resistance and simply keep moving forward. So that’s what I’m doing!

Here’s to the next six months!

P.S. You’ll find the “Follow my blog” form in the sidebar. 🙂

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On the verge?

A lot of things in the world of Ananda (and thus of Ananda Music) are shifting and moving and evolving. It’s rather disorienting, especially since some of it is big and involves other departments, which means months worth of development and implementation to get it right, while also figuring out the best way to function in the meantime.

For years we’ve been stretched (way) out of our comfort zones as directors and managers, and now I feel (fear?) it’s about to ratchet up another few notches. We’re getting into so many projects that involve ever-increasing knowledge of technology, finances, marketing, global issues, etc…seemingly ad infinitum!

On the one hand I believe we may very well be on the verge of absolutely amazing new things for Ananda Music. But on the other hand, I’m beginning to feel like I’m reaching the limits of what my musically-trained, flute-player’s brain can cope with.

Arggghhhh!