What will you happen today?

Everyone experiences some level of frustration during the course of the work week.  With the level of responsibility I have, my days can range from wanting to scream and walk out, to losing it so much that laughter is all that's left.  And right now the entire organization that I work for is feeling the frustration of a lack of leadership.  There is always an argument from above about why a project can't be launched.  There is never enough funding, enough staff, or enough reason to try it again when it had already failed once before.

Of course it's easy to get discouraged.  We think that if the leadership at the top can't move forward, then neither can the rest of the organization.  This week was filled with reminders of the falseness of that belief.  In advance of being able to go and see Marsaru Emoto, author of the book "The Hidden Messages in Water" I began to read the book for a second time.  The idea that humans are 70% water, and that these water molecules can be affected by just a thought, reminded me that we can and do change the world with or without intent.  This changed my thinking when it came to my personal meditation.

I was previously visualizing, as I had once read, a great light infusing me, more and more with each breath.  I would practice this visualization whenever I started to feel dejected in the face of absurdity at work.  Now I realize that I can't rely on the world for this energy.  The world can suck at any given moment.  Have you read some of the headlines in the news?  There are days when the only good news is that the earth wasn't taken out by a giant comet!  No, the goodness is already in me, and it is that that I must draw from and project when all hell breaks loose.  And the belief that this goodness is in me will affect me as well, I expect.

I wish I could explain this better to the rest of my crew.  Quotes I included in the staff newsletter this month were about not just waiting for things to happen, but for people to "happen" to the world.  Make things happen!  That's wisdom that is too good to pass up.  Why wait for upper management to get their act together?  No one is telling us we can't do the projects we want to do except for ourselves.  We hear the negatives, and buy them, and let them stop us.  We need to happen!  Happen with purpose!  Happen with lightness!  Happen with determination and persistence!  What will you happen today?