Receiving: Collaboration’s ‘Overlooked Half’ (also known as ‘Letting the Arms of the Universe Support You’)

If you’ve ever had the inkling you struggle too much to get where you want to go, this post is for you.

You’re likely here reading this blog because you are a service professional of some sort. In other words, you help others for a living. Many of you, I know, inspire and change lives for a living. This is phenomenal and I’m glad you’re here.

Today I wanted to post a very special 55-minute audio for your listening pleasure (or at least your listening ‘provocativeness,’) because the concepts I cover in the call may be contrarian for you.

The topic is ‘Receiving: The Overlooked Half of Successful Collaborations including Joint Ventures, Strategic Alliances, etc.’

The overarching theme of theme is this: That there are things in your business (money, help, the exact advice or insight you wish you had) that are there right now, that for whatever reason you are saying an unconscious ‘no’ to or at least ‘not seeing clearly’ because if you did see these things clearly, you would receive them with open arms.)

The fact of the matter is, I made a great personal shift in my own business – financially, yes – but even more so mentally and psychologically last year when I realized this.

I made a great leap forward in my ability to help more people, more deeply when I changed my mentality from being ‘Athena, the Warrior Goddess’ with my sword ready…to being what I call a ‘bowl.’ And it all came from stopping behaving like a sword in life, to being ‘as a bowl’. Big difference.

A bowl receives, you see. Whatever it may be: rain, fresh ripe berries, grain, bread, wisdom, laughter…a bowl, inherent in its shape, exists to receive. For whatever reason I really resonated with this mental imagery after years of ‘fighting’ my way through life. And boy has it made a difference.

Does this resonate with you? Do you feel as though you fight your way through life too? Maybe your ‘sword arm’ is feeling a little worse for wear? Or you’ve wondered if there’s a better way. Answer? Maybe there is. Maybe it’s the way of the bowl.

In any case, I don’t just wax on about bowls here , there are actually 6 major points – both nutsy boltsy practice AND metaphysical – about Collaboration that we cover in this clip. Just hit the play button with your speakers on to hear it live, or click the ‘Download MP3′ link to save it to your hard drive to transfer to your MP3 player. No charge or obligation.

Oh, well, actually let me say this. After listening, it would be a gift to me to receive a comment from you about it.

As new online travellers visit this blog, your posts about what you found most useful in the audio help them decide whether it’s worth listning to. Or, you can also post any notes you may have taken. In this way, we’ll add new dimensions of richness together for future visitors. Kinda like a virtual stone soup!

Enjoy. It’s one of my favorite clips this year, and I thank Lisa Wilder and Michael Port from over at the ‘Think Big Revolution’ Team for providing the clip – this call was held in their ‘bailliwick’ as a part of their regular series of Think Big calls, every Monday morning.

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