Day 17 of Surrender - The Promise and the Dollar

Over the last week I've had a number of friends reach out to me. "Hey, you're a life coach right? Let me ask you this..." and they want to pick my brain. Interestingly enough, they think I'm coaching them but I'm really just being a friend.

Then I had an intrusive thought that those same friends should respect my business if they value my abilities. While I was tempted to believe that for a split second, I remembered something I read from the Apostle Paul that says the people who live by the rules and laws do not inherit the promise.

While the rules of business, social, and capitalism dictate boundaries that I do need to maintain in the business world, I am first a child of the promise. In my personal life, I will prosper and so will my soul if I remember to live and love according to the promise and not according to the laws of money.

So I did two things -

1) I gave myself grace to be my authentic self. I have already earned what there is to earn. It is already mine. Therefore, I have an abundance to share with my friends in their time of need.

2) I paid respect to the business side. I created a new service that launches at the first of the year. It will allow me to be on retainer for businesses who would like to have a Health and Wellness resource for their employees.

By doing it this way, I honor the whole human being that I am. The intrusive thoughts were egoic and rude because there is a part of me that resents being a doormat for many years. I thank that part of me for defending me and I also let it know that it is right in nature but it is wrong in its energy. Rather than reject it, I receive it and I turn it into something productive. That is how you honor the reactive side of your nature. Next I honored the pure side of my nature by confirming that its ok to be myself.

After doing that I felt complete and I went on to help even more friends.