Amp It Up!

Gosh, we’re all living so hard!! It’s as if we can feel our white hair growing. And this is a good thing.

My stepfather passed away in December, and his life was one well-lived. He did everything he wanted to do. He didn’t let things like confusion and distraction get in his way. He clearly knew what he wanted and he lived it. My mother lived it with him. She says that on her deathbed, my stepfather’s life will pass before her eyes. But she considers the years she spent with my stepfather blessed years, and has no regrets.

Upon your deathbed, whose life will pass before your eyes? If you don’t create the life you want, what will you have spent your whole life creating instead?

These are the moments in which your old reality can become your new one. These are the moments you must grab hard between your hands and wring the juice from.

We don’t know what will happen next—Haiti, global warming, global cooling, a depression—but we can know who we will choose to be when it happens.

It’s short, people. Amp it Up!!

On Morty Lefkoe’s blog.  Morty is all about discarding beliefs that no longer serve you, so as you might imagine, I’m a big fan of his.  Here he poses a couple of scenarios for creating what you want in life.

Good day to all of you possibility amplifiers!

As you might remember from one of my emails, decoherence is the universe’s method for turning quantum possibility into reality. We can ride the universe’s coattails and turn our own possibilities into reality by applying decoherence, too.

What’s the key? Create lots of information about your desired possibility in your environment over time. These informational records can be in verbal, written, action or thought form.

Today, I’m working on amplifying the Possibility Institute into reality, and applying decoherence. I have a meeting in Minneapolis to discuss the concept with a business associate later this week, and I’m working on an executive summary of the idea, some web site mockups, and a marketing plan.

The most important thing to me in designing the Institute is to make sure that it’s focused on helping you turn your life and business possibilities into reality.

So, a question: What can I offer you that would be most helpful? Would you prefer I focus on life in general, or business specifically? Are you stuck in coming up with your vision, amping it up, managing your beliefs, taking action, or with something else?

Would you prefer email courses, in-person seminars, mastermind conference calls, workbooks, or a combination of all of those?

Would you prefer to hear more about the science, or more about the practical applications of that science?

With your input, the Possibility Institute will rock!  Thank you, and have a possibility-filled day!

Kim Marcille & Michael Romaner tie the knot on the Savannah.

In a simple yet sweet ceremony, Michael and I were married on September 26th at Hammond’s Ferry in our hometown of North Augusta, SC on the Savannah River, just upriver from our neighborhood.  In a quasi-elopement, we invited only our children (his daughter Alexis, 20, and friend Ray, and my son Zack, 19, with his girlfriend Katherine).  We celebrated at Manuel’s Bread Cafe with prosecco, a lovely sparkling Italian wine, and a lovely dinner with the kids.  A week later we embarked on a two-week tour of Italy, visiting such romantic places as Venice, Florence, Tuscany and Lake Como.

We re-said our vows at San Marlino church, a church high on a cliff that you can only reach by hiking a trail up the mountain.  The last four days, we stayed at La Darsena (The Boathouse) in Tremezzo on Lake Como.  The first day there, we took a ferry across the lake to Bellagio, and visited the Melzi estate.  Melzi was the chancellor of Italy during Napoleon’s reign.  We sat high up on the perfect lawn of this estate, and told each other Father Guido Sarducci jokes as we looked over the sparkling lake.  (Remember the 5-Minute University?)  We spoke in fake Italian accents for about a week after we got home. I’m happy to say we’re recovered from that now, but still suffering from having to leave that beautiful country behind.

Right at this moment, though, as I sit on the patio of my home in the beautiful Fall weather of our hometown, I can hear the church bells ringing the half hour across the river, and I think, “We’re not so far from Italy after all.”

Ciao, mios bellos.

Michael Merzenich, faculty member and researcher in University of California San Francisco’s department of otolaryngology (head and neck surgery), wrote with a colleague that through attention, “we choose and sculpt how our ever-changing minds will work, we choose who we will be in the next moment in a very real sense, and these choices are left embossed in physical form on our material selves.”

I’m happy to report to all of you Possibility Amplifiers out there that the Miami-Dade Broadband Coalition has received a $900,000 grant from the Knight Foundation as seed money to launch and conduct some broadband pilot programs, after a year of hard work together. Amazing accomplishment in these difficult financial times. This group knows how to Amp It Up! Congratulations to them! And wishing YOU every possibility as well.

On my old blog platform, this blog post is still getting positive comments, two years later. I feel so strongly about this message that I wanted to share it here, too. It is my wish for you that you actually do it. Wishing you every possibility! –Kim

Write a Love Letter to Yourself

When my clients write down their visions of a dream life, they often leave themselves out. They list the material items, the places they’ll go, the money they’ll have, and so on, but they don’t describe how they will feel when it will all comes true.
If you are stressed now, will you want to be stressed in your dream future? If you feel badly about yourself, do you think it would make any difference if you had all the money in the world and wore a size 0?

If you give yourself a hard time on a regular basis, I can assure you that your dream life will take longer to create. This emotional misalignment creates drag on your forward motion. Treasuring yourself in the now will prepare you to be treasured and well-loved in the future.

To help you begin treasuring yourself, I suggest the following: write yourself a love letter. Tell yourself everything you admire and cherish about you. Make some promises about how you will treat yourself from now on. Tell yourself that it’s okay not to be perfect. Use this opportunity to break through the old messages and crap that you’ve been beating yourself over the head with and replace them with new, more loving thoughts. By doing so, you will also be producing nurturing chemicals in your body, rather than the harsh and damaging chemicals of anxiety and stress. Do it today!

If you care to share your love letter to yourself, I’d be honored to read it.

Turned down a radio interview today because a cold has shattered my voice.  I am not surprised by my illness…I have a habit of falling ill after major deadlines have passed, major audiences have been addressed, major life issues have been resolved.  It’s a bad habit.

And yet it’s served me well, because when I’m on, I’m on, and my body is on the program, protecting me from wayward viruses and therefore protecting the successful completion of My Mission of the Moment.

What’s a Mission of the Moment?  Well, it’s those sometimes important but not urgent things you turn a burning focus on, and sometimes it’s the urgent but not important things that require your attention and become your MotM.  String these MotMs together, and you have…a life.

Your child leaves for college.  A family member or friend falls sick.  You’re handed a big project at work.  You move to take another job.  You build a home.  You give birth to a child.  You start a business.  It is in these transitional moments that we are capturing the fabric of our dream life in our hands, or letting it go.

My friend Javier Reynaldos is right now on his own Mission of the Moment, to buy a house in Dallas that he loves, but is not sure he wants.  It’s so close, and yet…not quite. To read his eloquent reflections on that, visit his blog.

Perhaps your Mission of the Moment is Muddled.  After all, these are interesting and dangerous times we find ourselves in. We’re holding on to some things we should let go of, and letting go of some things we should hold on to, responding to the ebb and flow of easily available information, as if this hoarding or releasing of energy will do us any good, as if the truth we harbor inside ourselves needs more explanation or interpretation.

Still, we let this outside information invade our decision making process.  We let it contaminate the purity of our dreams, since they seem farther away than ever.  If we let our minds go out of focus as we survey our one chosen path, we can blur the horizon a bit, and say, “Well…a bit to the left, or a bit to the right, what does it matter!  I’ll get…somewhere…eventually.”

And so I am reminded of My Mission of the Moment, which, if sustained long enough, will become my Mission of a Lifetime.  (This is, unfortunately, a MoaL.) It is to bring you back to that which resonates within you.  It is to remind you of your scientifically proven power to amplify your dreamed of possibilities into reality. And it is to remind me also.

Together, we can amplify our most cherished possibilities into reality and create a world that reflects what’s best and dearest in all of us.  Now, that’s a MoaL.

In Miami this week, helping the Miami-Dade community file an $80 million broadband infrastructure grant with the federal government.  As you may know, broadband is an important issue to the Obama administration, and it should be to us as well. A fact you may not know:  the United States, the inventors of the Internet, have slipped to #15 on the list of the 30 member countries of the OECD: the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.  In other words, we’re at the 50th percentile for broadband penetration in the developed world.

Huh! …you may say.  Well.  Better get busy there.

If you’re scratching your head as to why the Possibility Chick is posting about broadband, then you might want to read this latest report from the OECD regarding the connection between investments in communucation infrastructure and economic recovery: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/4/43/42799709.pdf.

Plus!  Imagine what it will be like when $80M appears in Miami-Dade to connect public institutions at very high speeds so that they can do new and amazing things that they haven’t even yet imagined.

I am.  I can see the Miami-Dade of the future, and I can’t wait to share this vision of what we can become.

If we can envision it, we can become it.  We can turn our possibilities into reality.

First step: submit application tomorrow.  Second step: move into the “due diligence” phase.  Stay tuned!

You may believe that you will never get the voice in your head to shut up enough to become a possibilist, a person who truly believes that he or she can turn any possibility into reality.  (See my last post.)

Well, let me provide you with some guidance on that issue by taking you on a quick walk down my own personal path to becoming a possibilist:

First, start with fear.  Be an incurable worry wart.  Feel inadequate.  Wrestle with yourself daily. Marry someone who makes you feel worse.  

Hear one side of your brain believing in the fear, and the other side intellectually knowing that all is well, but need a third side to actually feel it.

Be a control freak.  Assume the mantle of Master of the Universe at age 6, take it off only reluctantly in your 30s, and have to be reminded that you’ve gotten it out of the closet again in your 40s.  

Engage aggressively in finding strategies to combat the fear, worry and negative thinking.  Read many books, listen to many tapes, attend many seminars, join support groups, do therapy.

Separate from your husband, become a single parent, and have a head on collision with an 18-wheeler in the space of two weeks.  

Get a glimmer.  Grow it for 15 years.

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Okay.  So maybe you don’t want to go that route.  What’s, as my mother says, Plan B?

I’ll tell you right now that you won’t like Plan B.  For many reasons.  But I think mostly because there isn’t a secret handshake.  And of course, there’s the whole personal responsibility thing.

But here it is, the super secret shortcut to truly becoming a possibilist (drumroll): choose to.  

That’s it.  But permanently, eradicating all doubt forever.  

(Nah.  That’s a lie.  You’ll forget periodically, and have to remount your steed.)

And in each moment.  

(Also untrue.  But the more often you choose to believe, the more powerful a possibilist you will become.)

And read my book, coming out from New World Library in the spring of 2010, in which you will discover all the amazing things about you and the universe that are constantly conspiring to turn possibility into reality, and how you can tap into that process.  

(That’s a must. Haha!)

Choose to be a possiblist today. Then BE a possibilist.  Start right now, this minute.  Embrace the great unseen magic and power of the possibility universe and make it yours.   Dream a big dream. Believe in it. And don’t look back.