Welcome,
This is your host,
Marianne Pack,
Spiritual medium,
Author,
And joyologist.
This reading is entitled,
Show Up for Yourself.
Sometimes I am a really slow learner,
Or maybe better said,
I'm a really slow truster.
I've been studying the Law of Attraction for many years,
And sometimes I still don't trust myself to allow it to work for me.
I'd say I'm a conditional truster.
Tell me if this sounds familiar to you,
Not necessarily the details,
But the feeling.
A few years ago,
I became a published author,
Not only an author,
But a bestselling author of my first book,
We Are Joy,
Reawaken Your Joy.
Not only the author,
But I'm also the first-time publisher of Envision Greatness Press,
So I'm double excited about this,
And more books are coming out in the We Are Joy book series.
As good as this is,
I'm even more excited about something that happened not too long ago.
I've been wanting to trust the universe more,
And I've been asking the universe to show me my worthiness,
To give me evidence that I deserve good things that I desire,
But I've not been doing the work of trusting.
I just keep pushing forward with my work,
And not doing a very good job of self-care because,
Well,
Just because.
I have things to do,
People to talk to,
Appointments to keep,
Contracts for publishing to sign,
Line up guests for the podcast and anthology,
And whatever else that gets in my way of taking time for me.
My self-care and pleasures,
Just for pleasure's sake,
Is most often put on the back burner,
Always thinking,
It can wait.
I can wait.
On this particular day,
I had asked that the universe show me evidence that it is providing for me.
I went about my work and knew at some point I wanted to take some time off to do something I wanted to do around the house.
On a Friday?
Oh my God.
Take time away from doing all the things?
What if the stuff I could have done in my business doesn't get done because I'm going to take time off to do something just for me?
Then I said,
I'm worth it.
An hour or so of doing something I've been wanting to do for three weeks.
So I did it.
I stopped working,
Put down my laptop,
Got up and went and did the thing.
And it turned out beautifully.
Later that evening,
I did check my emails before bed and noticed that there was an email from a lady who I'd had a conversation with about joining my Unmuted Voices series of podcast episodes and the book anthology that was planned to be published in January of 2023.
After our conversations earlier that week,
She wasn't sure if that was really what she wanted to do.
Of course,
I had reassured her that there was absolutely no pressure from me,
That I only wanted her to join if it resonated with her soul.
And we said our goodbyes.
Her email was full of joy as she said,
Yes,
She wanted to join the Unmuted Voices team.
As a side note,
To participate in this podcast and book anthology,
There is a fee.
So she was not only saying yes to joining,
She was energetically sharing support for my business in the future by paying the author's fee.
Why oh why do I continue to have trouble accepting that I am worthy of folks paying me?
Anywho,
The next morning,
I wondered what time her email had arrived in my email box.
So I looked it up.
Lo and behold,
It came during the very time I wasn't,
Quote unquote,
Working.
But when I was doing what I wanted to do that was just for me,
I finally made the correlation that the universe did provide me another client while I was taking pleasure just for me.
Not during the working part of my day,
Duh,
Light bulb moment.
After my realization that I attracted the blessing because I took time for myself and stopped working so hard,
I shared it with some of my coaching friends in a group chat.
I posted a shorter version of what I told you here,
And one of the members made this comment on my post.
This is it.
Keep showing up for yourself and others will show up for you.
Oh my gosh,
I told her I was going to have to quote her on this,
And it dawned on me that as I showed up for me,
Others will also show up for me and they'll want to pay me in some cases.
Now maybe this is just old news to you.
Maybe you're already really good at showing up for yourself,
But I'm just learning to trust that this is truly the case.
When I show up for myself,
Others will show up for me too.
Let's see,
I'm 65 and I'm now just now getting around to allowing myself to trust the universal law stuff.
It may have taken me almost two decades of allowing myself to take better care of myself and make feeling good more of a priority,
But I'm starting to do it.
So I am making progress.
Have you ever experienced this,
That your business increases or sales come through often when your self-care has taken center stage?
When you stop pushing,
Hustling,
And grinding out your work and begin taking better care of providing yourself pleasurable moments,
That business sales get better?
I read an article of a recent study about how increased employee happiness can increase their productivity by 12%.
Then they mentioned that Google is making sure that their employees are happier by creating an environment where the employees feel heard and respected,
Which has increased their productivity by 37%.
Can you imagine how a 12-37% increase in productivity could affect our businesses?
All because we focused on increasing our happiness by showing up for ourselves.
When we focus on showing up for ourselves,
Providing moments of happiness,
Looking for things or situations that bring us joy,
We can increase our productivity just by taking better care of our happiness quotient.
Increased productivity also includes being more creative and efficient.
Showing up for ourselves will increase our happiness,
Which will increase our productivity,
Which will increase our impact on this big beautiful world.
Let's trust that showing up for ourselves is trusting the universe to provide for our desires because our most beneficial and productive time is making time for our happiness.
Then let's sprinkle that happiness everywhere.
Big hugs,
Marianne.
