in fact, that his incredibly scented and beautifully designed soy
candles are sold in posh stores all over the world. Jimmy is not
only a candle maker. He is a successful one.
Ask Jimmy the secret of his success, and he'll tell you its the
blessing, because almost since the day he began his candle making
business well more than a decade ago, Jimmy has gone about the
business of blessing his candles. Daily he, along with other
members of his staff, pours love and peace and healing into each
candle being created, imagining the blessings settling into each
jar along with the wax and fragrance. Jimmy understands that this
is a world of energy and when we put good energy into something,
good energy naturally comes out.
And sometimes that good energy comes out in the most unexpected
ways. A few years ago, while utterly content making and blessing
his candles, Jimmy wasn't prepared for the dynamic change about to
occur in his life. He walked into work one morning only to find he
no longer had a company. His board of directors, thinking merely
blessing a business into success was not a savvy marketing plan,
had voted him out.
This is where Jimmy could have gotten really, really angry and
probably no one would have blamed him. But instead of fuming and
fussing and flying into what most would have considered a clearly
justified rage, Jimmy went on a cruise. He relaxed, emptied himself
of every hurtful judgment and then, once the cruise was over,
moved on to create a new company from scratch, blessing it just as
he had the first. Soon the new company was doing better than the
old.
That's how blessing works. It takes the sting out. It turns the
totally impossible into infinite possibility and transforms tragedy
into triumph and it does so quickly and without fuss or muss. When
we go about the daily business of blessing, we literally weave the
best possible outcome into every situation in our lives. Blessing
puts us in a good place.
Begin to develop a blessing business plan. Ask yourself ways you
can incorporate more blessing into the daily business of living and
then record the answers come to mind in your Blessing Way Journal.
And most importantly, once you've figured out new ways to bless,
then do it. It's nice to think about blessing someone or something.
It's infinitely nicer to bless.
Today's affirmation:
"No matter what may happen today, I can bless."
Today's quote:
"The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach;
but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul
upon the very thing we search for, without finding it."
-- Seneca
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