More on the power of intention & other amazing events

Less than two weeks after I declared publicly, in this post, that I wanted essentially to become a "professional housemother" (owner/operator of a commune, purveyor of "a community of fun, love and transformation"), some amazing things have happened.  Specifically, 3 new people (yes, three) have approached us with the intention of doing a trial residence and eventually possibly living with us.  This raises the possibility that, without even trying, we would have a full house here by September – which would enable the Trellis business to pay for all of Rebekah’s and mine housing expenses, and in addition generate a profit that would help pay for ours and house-member’s personal and professional development (ie Morehouse courses, Shalom retreats, NVC etc). This would be amazing, and it has been a goal of mine ever since we bought the house, that Trellis would generate enough profit to pay for house-members personal development.  It would be the "deal clincher" on what is already, to my mind, an extremely compelling lifestyle proposition.  I will write more about this another time, because people don’t generally understand what we are doing here.

My own growth through this process has been equally interesting.  I remember very clearly, when I first moved into the Yonkers Morehouse, feeling that I could never be the housemother of a commune, as I lacked the necessary attention on other people, and possibly even a real deep interest in other people, in their lives and in their development.   But now this is beginning to change, and I give a large credit for this to my work with Saniel Bonder and Waking Down in Mutuality (ie, I am becoming less self-centered). 

Related to this and to what I said above "people don’t generally understand", the conclusion I am drawing is that my work now is two-fold: I need to find the right languaging for educating people about what we do here, and I need to improve the quality of our product (the product is "fun, love and transformation", which is directly related to the quality of my attention on other people and my willingness to see them / relate to them from where they are and from their needs rather than mine).  This is all intensely exciting.

Anyway, since I have now become a huge fan of publicly declaring your intention, and since Rebekah and I will still need to operate separate businesses even when the house gets full, I am declaring here my intention in solving the second half of our financial predicament:

I want to create, inside 4 months, a business that will enable me to work a maximum of 20 hours a week while billing out no less than 10 hours x $75/hr. (this would work financially, and, quite frankly, I don’t have time to run a commune and work more than 20 hours!)

Wish me luck and feel free to write to me your intention (or better, comment to the blog directly)! 

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