Professional Waiter – Playing 4 Keeps

The Lead in…

Time is as slippery as a tomato seed. Hard to put your fingers on it. The harder you try the more it slips away. The more you want an event to manifest, the longer the wait. Well, perhaps this is true within the realm of charged emotions. Children experience it in early life with baited holidays, like Christmas. Why does it take so long for a short shot of euphoria?

Time is a device of man. A measure of from here to there. In the metaphysical, time does not exist. Your dream is just as probable for delivery tomorrow, as it is the next day, the next week, the next month, the next year…perhaps the next life time. Blink, it’s here. You just have to wait a bit.

Without doubt, just dreaming does not deliver a dream. Action is almost always involved. Back in the early days of what was known as the New Age, there were loads books and countless lecturers promoting overnight wealth. All you had to do was write a few clever affirmations, crank back in the recliner, meditate for a while and then walk out to the mail box in the morning to pick up your check.

The results of meditation, visualizing your reality, affirming intention for a goal, is like baking a cake. Follow the recipe, have all the necessary ingredients, put in some action, whip up the batter, pop it in the oven and wait. Some cakes take longer to bake than others.

I have written several articles over the years about energy and timing, otherwise known as right time, right place and right action. Short explanation here; it’s aligning to the frequency of the goal. In doing so, you pull the goal to you. Like the lioness hiding in tall grass, a gazelle comes along and dinner is served. Okay, there is some running and panting involved. I did mention action is needed, not just sitting in the chair wondering when dinner may drop from the sky.

The Lesson

A couple of weeks ago I listed a projection screen for sale, on-line. I previously had the screen up for sale several months earlier with just a couple of contacts, no sale. The ad expired and I dismissed the screen as a sale idea.

I had the screen stored in my garage and I had to walk past it to get into my truck each day. After a few months, I began to have a subtle conversation with myself. Maybe I should repost the on-line ad for the screen. A few more months passed with me taking no action.

Then, as I said, a couple of weeks ago I took action. I reposted the ad. That was on a Saturday. The following Tuesday, I received a contact with interest in the screen. By the next Saturday, one week, the projection screen was in the possession of its new owner. Right time, right place, right action had once again delivered for me.

Upon meeting the buyer, I politely asked his business. He had been active in audio and visual staging. He had been using a company to provide the necessary equipment for the events he had been hired to produce. He recently had a problem with the equipment contract, involving delivery and an unannounced price increase. He had no choice but to discontinue with what he considered unethical business.

It resulted in him creating his dream of having his business all under his control. He made a decision to not be at the mercy of other’s bidding, by owning all the equipment himself.

He told me that he was just about to order a large screen like mine when he decided to check on-line one last time. Bingo! He was in Denver, and he asked if I would meet him in Colorado Springs, half way to Pueblo, where I live. I agreed to meet him half way. I did mention some action is involved with manifesting goals.

I was happy to make the sale. But you know what, I was more pleased with the synergy of meeting the young man and thrilled to know that the projection screen was back in action, and in the hands of another entrepreneur. I used the screen during the five years that I produce my two and half day Blackjack for Winners™ seminar. After the first gig’s success, I recognized that instead of paying the hotel to supply all the AV equipment that I needed for the blackjack program, I could own it myself.

Most of all, I loved the confirmation of the whole experience. It took about six months for the sale to take place, but for the most part, I just had to be a professional waiter. I waited for the right time, and then be in the right place, then take the right action. I received a strong inner voice on that Saturday morning that motivated me to stop what I was doing and post the ad. This metaphysical truth has been working for me since 1983 when I first learned of this phenomena from Stuart Wilde. It is at the heart of Playing 4 Keeps™ teachings and the life I have been living since.

Stuart has move on, however the truths in his teaching continue, like ripples from a stone, tossed into a pond. He used to say, “The universe is total abundance, you can have it all.”