Amp It Up!

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.