🦄 Openness

Book of TREE 3.23: manifesting for materialists 8/10

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As you are trudging gratefully up the road towards manifesting what you want, unexpected things will happen. Some will get in your way. Some will distract you from your way. Some will be opportunities to move up the road really fast. These opportunities are the trudging spell working.

The opportunities are not always obvious and are often scary. You don’t want to miss them, so it’s important to stay open.

I am not a naturally open person.

I’ve been into audio most of my life. When I was a kid, my friends and I recorded our own ‘radio stations’ on cassette tapes. Some of my favourite days as a young teenager were spent building Lego and listening to talk radio I dreamed of having my own radio show.

When I was 15, I was at a home school volleyball game. One of the girls there had an older brother who was a DJ at the local Christian radio station. After the game, her mum approached me in the car park. The station was looking for an intern. You like radio, Jeff. Would you be interested? I was a shy, not open and, at that moment, terrified person. No thanks, I lied in my coolest 15 year-old voice, I’m not really into radio anymore.

About then, my mom jumped into my business and said, The hell you’re not interested in radio. You are interested and you are going to take the internship. (Note: My mom definitely didn’t say ‘hell’ at a homeschool volleyball game in 1989. She is good and pure and holy and tougher than me.)

So I took the internship. Then I got hired. It was my first real job. Eventually, I had my own radio show – three of ’em before I was done.

What I’m saying is, stay open. When you notice you are scared, get even opener. There’s an opportunity trying to happen.

1. Every now and again I see an example of generative AI being used as an actual creative tool and I enjoy it.

2. If you like thinking about numbers, infinity and possibilities, you will probably like this film.

Grow slowly
Jeff