“Every morning and every evening I say now different things. When I start to feel tension or dis-ease or anger building up, I know what to do a few times and it starts to dissolve. I am working again with the solar company that I started with right before going to Mexico last year and it's going great.
We are doing good projects and I'm making lots of money. They said they want me to be happy and make plenty of money for my work. It's great to do something you enjoy and get paid well too. The two partners are so busy with the large projects they want me to take over the development of their Brooklyn Brownstone residential clients.
Even with my neighborhood electrical work people want to pay me more than I ask for. Two weeks ago a guy asked me to change out his circuit panel. I told him $150. When I got done, he gave me a check for $200. Tomorrow morning I am scheduled to do another circuit panel update and the real estate broker who arranged for me to do it insisted that I get paid $400. I just finished a project this week for the City University of New York and the Department of Energy installing data monitoring equipment to track solar energy production in the city. I managed to get 9 systems installed in 9 days.
The project leader from CUNY only expected 4-5. Her email this afternoon said "this is amazing." But it's not amazing. Everyone and everything just came together to make it possible for me to do it because I was open to letting it happen. I have only been sleeping about 5-6 hours a night, but I still have plenty of energy and feel healthy.
Tonight I was listening for more inspiration. Anyway, there was a discussion about limiting beliefs and how we sabotage our success because we are afraid that if good things happen they will go away. Why try if we will only be disappointed by negative outcomes? I guess this is something we all know to some extent.
Then they started talking about one retreat center they are creating in Costa Rica and it hit me as a complete, whole insight that I would be involved somehow in developing the energy systems there. The way they described the place, it sounded very remote. There are so many innovative technologies coming out recently that being "off the grid" no longer means that you are basically camping out. Despite the media reports that say so many negative things about solar, this is a really wonderful time to working in renewable energy.
It was also talked about the land "owning" the people and the idea of stewardship. It sounded like me when I tell clients that these brownstones have been here for more than a hundred years we need to respect them when doing our renovations.
Their idea of responsible development sounded so much like what we have been doing here in Brooklyn for the last 13 years. It was great to hear someone else talk about things in that way. Everyday I meet more and more people who have an affinity to this awareness. This energy is out there, but we just need to get folks to move on it, to unlock it.
These are amazing times we are living in, so much is possible.
Thanks so much for teaching me more tools and hope to see you soon, Matt."
