Yesterday I was driving to Newport, Rhode Island to deliver some Clean-crafted Wine™ to a new customer. I LOVE getting new customers in towns that I love to visit because, well, it’s an excuse to visit that town and my Chickens 🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣 and I enjoy the town on our adventures. (I am one of 4 people on my 🌟Best. 🌟 Team. 🌟. Ever. 🌟 - which has over 100 people nationwide - who delivers wine in Rhode Island. We are not allowed by law to deliver wine in Rhode Island so I have it shipped to Seekonk Fed Ex and deliver it myself).
As we were driving there, I was talking to my HH about something wicked awesome and spiritual (we always have talks like that, one of the things I love most about our relationship) and I was “blindly” following GPS and BOOM! I found myself and my Chickens 🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣 crossing a big ass bridge, like a REALLY BIG ASS bridge, and I was terrified. AND, it was the opposite way of where we needed to be going.
But once you are on a bridge my friends, you are on a bridge. There ain’t no turnin’ back. Such a metaphor for life!
Full transparency: I did box breath the entire ride over that bridge. I have a bridge thing. A height thing. A water thing. OMG all three! Well, I breathed, and I believed. Btw, I had no freaking choice.
Well, we made it over. And then, I had to pay a four dollar toll for the misery I had endured. LOL 😂😂 I was shaking and told the toll booth woman what went down and she was very kind and compassionate. I then asked her, “Do you like wine? 🥂🍷🍾💫 ?”
I told my Chickens 🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣 that we were meant to be in Jamestown for some reason (the town to which this bridge lead) so we parked the car and tooled around Jamestown for an hour or so while I calmed my nerves and gathered my strength and courage to go back across that bridge. There was no other way back! I had no choice. Another metaphor for life.
So I became a Jedi Master of Focus, I visualized it going really well . . . and off we went, across that bridge. This time the $4 toll started our adventure, so when the dude asked me how I was doin’, I replied, “Well, I’m a little scared,” to which he asked, “of crossing the bridge?” So I explained. It should be noted that this dude looks like Brad Pitt with long hair and at the end of our chat I also asked him, “Do you like wine? 🥂🍷🍾💫 “ He does like wine, a lot, and is going to check out my website and maybe join my 🌟Best. 🌟 Team. 🌟. Ever. 🌟. Wouldn’t that be funny.
As I drove over the bridge, I breathed and looked straight ahead. Not to the right, not to the left, straight ahead. I kept my intention in mind, and I breathed. And before I knew it, we were off the bridge and my Chickens 🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣 and I were cheering. I felt like I’d just won the finals of a big tennis tournament or some other such amazing accomplishment and I immediately began asking my inner being, “What’s the lesson here? What do I need to learn? What do I need to do differently?”
The answer came this morning on my yoga mat. I realized that I had missed my daily meditation for two days in a row. Yikes. For someone who has a very fast moving train (lotsa momentum) this is not good. For me, meditation, yoga, cardio and using my Best Life Ever ✨🌟💫💛 Inspiration card deck = a high happy vibration. Lesson learned.
I meditated today.