Today I spent a lot of time on the phone with a yoga teacher, trying to hash out an accurate description of the class she will teach on Wednesdays in March at MSY.
It was an exciting creative process that I was even aware of as it was happening and I actually pulled out of the convo for a moment to comment on how cool it was that we were having this incredible discussion about Tantra, and prana, and introspection and transcendence. It made me want to meet with her more often just to “talk shop.”
It occurred to me that I am really lucky in the people I know, but also know that I make my own luck much of the time.
If there is one thing that is undeniably true about me it is that I need people around me who share my interests and passions. So my strategy is to try to rope them into my corral.
“Did you ever consider being a yoga teacher?”
“Have you read this book?”
“Do you know about this podcast, this TED talk, this food, this meditation technique?”
I do this because I need playmates. I need people around me who are ENGAGED IN SOMETHING. I need the people around me to be living lives that they are passionately stoked about.
The yoga teacher and I hammered out the conceptual framework for her class for March, then I wrote and sent my newsletter, and then I dashed to my meeting with my test group for the book I am writing, and there again I noticed how much I love the people who are attracted to, and love to talk about the same thingsI love to talk about:
What do you love?
What do you not love?
What are you doing?
What do you stand for?
What is amping your vibe at the moment?
These things really MATTER to me. And incredibly, these things matter to these people, too.
Tonight I had this crazy thought: What if I could revolutionize this town? What if I could be the force that starts to dispel the pervasive toxic cloud of apathy and laziness that hangs over this place?
What if I could enliven a critical mass of people, amplify their vibe, until there would be a felt energy shift in this ‘hood?
Wouldn’t that be cool?
