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It’s amazing to think this is the last week of the Master Key Experience.  I feel like I am spinning from the rapid rate of growth I have experienced.  The readings, the activities, the persistence, and the demands I put on myself seemed beyond my capabilities so many times.  That I have pushed through and made the finish line makes me feel ecstatic with joy.  I am so much more happy and I have so much more belief in myself and my mission in life than I did at the beginning of this course.

Although I have come so far, I feel like I am actually at a new beginning.  That the shifts and transformations I have experienced have lifted me up to where I can see the door to a whole new way of thinking, living, and being. I am proud of my perseverance and persistence, and yet I was not able to embrace the totality of what was offered.  I struggled with finding time and did not accomplish a 3X a day routine. I can imagine how much more automatic everything will become as I continue to embed my new habits.

I am grateful beyond measure for Mark and Davene, for their wisdom and passion that they share, and for this course that they have created with the Master Keys. A big thank you to the fellow instructors, Danya, Lori, Gigi, and Derek – your contributions and wisdom added so much value. I am incredibly thankful for my Guide Stephana, whose heartfelt love, belief, and encouragement pulled me from several ledges; and for Christelle, my fellow tribe member who made it to the finish line and actively encouraged me every step of the way.

I had a difficult time finding a Mastermind Group, and then the last two weeks I found Scott and Norina in the alliances.  I am so grateful for fellow travelers in the Master Keys and the encouragement and masterminding we will do.

Last but not least, I would like to thank my fellow MKE bloggers.  Your stories and insights helped me through several moments when I wondered if I would make it to the end.

The old blueprint is crumbling, the cement is flying off, and I am ready and excited to go through the door that has been opened for me by this course, by the instructors, and by this tribe.  My connection to Spirit and my higher self is stronger.  Mahalo.

Chapter 23.3  We make money by making friends, and we enlarge our circle of friends by making money for them, by helping them, by being of service to them. The first law of success is service, and this in turn is built on integrity and justice…

I really loved this concept, and especially when thinking about my business.  By focusing on helping people, by being of service, and by living with the highest ideal of  integrity and justice, that is success.  Live that.  The money will follow.

This week we are encouraged to go into the Silence for more than our normal 15-30 minutes.  A whole day.  Or more than a day.  Daunting and exciting at the same time.

The Master Key Experience is unfolding my manifesting capabilities, and as it turns out, this week is booked.  There’s the regular day job, and this weekend I had 6 events booked – one group event and 5 one on one appointments.  So an entire day was out of the question.

I chose to go for as much silence as I could with my week already booked with good work.

• Extended my morning sit
• Turned off audible on the commute and drove in silence.  Every time my mind would plan, have conversations, worry or fret, I would take a long slow breath and let the thought go.  I realize driving in traffic isn’t the ideal “silence,” but it was a mindful experiment that had positive results
• Took walks without my phone.  Noticed everything, especially nature

I’m looking forward to a day or more of silence…

I’m not gonna lie, this week was so busy in every aspect of my life that I got behind on my readings, I got behind on my blog (this entry is two days tardy), and I had to work hard to not beat myself up about being behind.

I was busy with good stuff.  My day job as a high school teacher never lacks for good work to be done.  I was leaving my house at 5:30 for the commute and getting to work by 6:30.  The extra 1.5 hours of grading and prepping flew by.  My business that I am building on the side was coming out of a very successful event last weekend.  I had follow ups to do and raffle prizes to deliver.  My BFF Ollie (11-year-old Bordercollie) looks forward to my arrival from home everyday and we did not miss a beat on our exercise walk.

Still.  I am fully committed to my transformation through the Master Key Experience, and the fact that I had run out of index cards and was three days behind on my kicker and gratitudes and GS was eating at me, with the unwanted effect of guilt, anxiety, and fear bubbling at the edges.

What I did that helped me.  I spent those two hours of commuting listening to Master Key System on audible, listening to the recording of my DMP, listening to The Science of Getting Rich, and vocalizing with ENTHUSIASM in the car my DMP, my Do It Now’s, my I Can be What I Will to Be’s…  I paid no mind to traffic or other drivers and I made the most of my commute.

In the Master Key Chapter 21, this hit home:

21:18  An illustration of how these mind forces operate is suggested by the method in which all our habits are formed. We do a thing, then do it again, and again, and again, until it becomes easy and perhaps almost automatic: and the same rule applies in breaking any and all bad habits; we stop doing a thing, and then avoid it again, and again, until we are entirely free from it; and if we do fail now and then, we should by no means lose hope, for the law is absolute and invincible and gives us credit for every effort and every success, even though our efforts and successes are perhaps intermittent.

“Thinking is the true business of life, power is the result.  You are at all times dealing with the magical power of thought and consciousness.  What results can you expect so long as you remain oblivious to the power which has been placed within your control.” Haanel Master  Key, 20.4

I bought the audible version of the Master Key and have been listening to it on the commute to and from work.  I am finding it a powerful addition to the readings of Haanel.  Different pieces catch my ear than caught my eye.  The work magical popped out, along with power, thought, and consciousness.  

My brain has a mind of its own (pun intended ;-))

My thoughts veer off into scenes, conversations, plans…  I find I am much more gentler with myself when listening than when I am reading. When I realize my thoughts have taken a path, I rewind the audible, and I become more and more aware about how and why and when I stop listening to the text and veer off.

I forgot my Franklin word this week, but I realized I have been noticing and seeing magic.  In people and places and events. In myself.

So I added the word magic to my Franklin Makeover….