Hi, again. It has been some time since I have visited my own journal of discovery. Sort of shameful. I can’t say my life was so busy I couldn’t get to it until recently. I managed a vacation to our home in Costa Rica, work was good, but not silly busy as it is now.

For now I find myself slammed with six major projects all coming to final production in the next six weeks. There are the hundreds of details of each project to keep straight, handle, learn, and make work. There are the team members of each project or show, one with a load-in crew of about thirty.

I have not organized my work life, until today, to produce this many projects at once. We can do it, we have done it, but one must be truly organized. Each projects must be laid out so that pieces of it don’t enter the truth of another project, which is a sure set-up for confusion, at the very least.

However, more than being extremely organized with paper, phone calls, email, and meetings, I must be wearing my Spiritual Shoes, if you will allow such a metaphor. I need to see each project and the hundreds of details of each project, plus all of them together while being in a spiritual mind set. It is important that I know my mood and my manner during each meeting or phone call should be guided by my spiritual principles. This allows me to stay calm when things don’t go the way I may have hoped, it allows me to treat others in a truly kind manner, know matter the subject at hand.

When writing an email about a negative issue I must remember that there is a soul at the other end of the chain of computer relays which deliver the message. I want to solve the problem, not hurt the recipient or use the email as a way to prove to myself that I am in charge and important. I either know my place in the scheme of the project and of life or I don’t. Beating someone up in any manner won’t fix not knowing.

Prayer helps me remember my place in the team. Sure, I am the leader, but I have clients, they have ideas. Sure, I am the leader of my team, but my team members have ideas. When I listen I grow. When I can take an idea from else wear and use it to make the project better we all win, but especially me. I will have learned something, I will have stayed “right sized” and I will find less stress.

To accomplish all of this, I get up each morning and make sure I put on my Spiritual Shoes through prayer, reflection and/or meditation. It doesn’t take long to put them on; and, the day ahead doesn’t seem quite so daunting.

Above that, I have the chance to join the world in a peaceful, yet energetic manner. At night, as I slow down, no matter the time, my soul doesn’t feel heavy due to my behavior or thoughts, instead it feels a true part of me and the work of living a spiritual life. I don’t take off my Spiritual Shoes and go to bed, no, I put on my Spiritual Slippers, for the night holds much life to it also.****

Hi, again. It has been some time since I have visited my own journal of discovery. Sort of shameful. I can’t say my life was so busy I couldn’t get to it until recently. I managed a vacation to our home in Costa Rica, work was good, but not silly busy as it is now.

For now I find myself slammed with six major projects all coming to final production in the next six weeks. There are the hundreds of details of each project to keep straight, handle, learn, and make work. There are the team members of each project or show, one with a load-in crew of about thirty.

I have not organized my work life, until today, to produce this many projects at once. We can do it, we have done it, but one must be truly organized. Each projects must be laid out so that pieces of it don’t enter the truth of another project, which is a sure set-up for confusion, at the very least.

However, more than being extremely organized with paper, phone calls, email, and meetings, I must be wearing my Spiritual Shoes, if you will allow such a metaphor. I need to see each project and the hundreds of details of each project, plus all of them together while being in a spiritual mind set. It is important that I know my mood and my manner during each meeting or phone call should be guided by my spiritual principles. This allows me to stay calm when things don’t go the way I may have hoped, it allows me to treat others in a truly kind manner, know matter the subject at hand.

When writing an email about a negative issue I must remember that there is a soul at the other end of the chain of computer relays which deliver the message. I want to solve the problem, not hurt the recipient or use the email as a way to prove to myself that I am in charge and important. I either know my place in the scheme of the project and of life or I don’t. Beating someone up in any manner won’t fix not knowing.

Prayer helps me remember my place in the team. Sure, I am the leader, but I have clients, they have ideas. Sure, I am the leader of my team, but my team members have ideas. When I listen I grow. When I can take an idea from else wear and use it to make the project better we all win, but especially me. I will have learned something, I will have stayed “right sized” and I will find less stress.

To accomplish all of this, I get up each morning and make sure I put on my Spiritual Shoes through prayer, reflection and/or meditation. It doesn’t take long to put them on; and, the day ahead doesn’t seem quite so daunting.

Above that, I have the chance to join the world in a peaceful, yet energetic manner. At night, as I slow down, no matter the time, my soul doesn’t feel heavy due to my behavior or thoughts, instead it feels a true part of me and the work of living a spiritual life. I don’t take off my Spiritual Shoes and go to bed, no, I put on my Spiritual Slippers, for the night holds much life to it also.****