The Nun Cartoon

During my reflection time this morning, while watering the gardens in our front courtyard, a cartoon I’d seen decades ago came to mind “out of the blue.”  Given the endless blue skies of our Northern New Mexico mornings, that saying has new meaning for me (but that’s another article for another time). 

Anyway, this cartoon was of a nun, dressed in a traditional black and white habit.  She is standing respectfully before her “Mother Superior,” who is seated behind a modest wooden desk.  The nun proclaims that she feels compelled to do more to help the poor.  Obviously pleased with this expression of commitment, and the nun’s sense of urgency, Mother Superior asks if she wants to begin a period of intense prayer and fasting.  The nun replies that she has decided to go off and join a rock band. (The implicit message is that she wants to become part of a world-wide concert tour that will raise a tremendous amount of money for charity). 

I suppose it ought to be of little surprise that I was reminded of this cartoon after so very long.  It clearly made an impression on me then, and seems germane now – given that we’ve begun an exciting new business venture.

There are occasions in our lives when we feel – in a most acute way – our time here on this glorious planet is both precious and finite.  When we ask ourselves how we are spending this limited temporal currency, and whether or not we are being good and effective stewards of what has been entrusted to us, we can be caught up short. Real short! It is so easy to get wrapped up in the day to day, and before we realize it, years have sped by. Maybe we are in debt, living paycheck to paycheck, and fearful of being laid off in today’s faltering economy. Yet, upon reflection, we want “more” from our lives.  More financial security, more meaning, more leisure, more opportunities to help others “if only” we ourselves had more:  more money to give, more time and energy to spend, more understanding about how best to make a more meaningful contribution. For me, the best way to be able to do more, and give more is to be in a position where I am completely debt free, have the time and the freedom to make inspired choices,  and be intentional about what is next.  I want to be part of the solution, not part of the problem. 

This means making some challenging choices, taking risks, and working very hard – in a new and different way than I’ve been used to for most of my adult life.  How grateful I am to have taken this “leap of faith.”  In the novel Twelve Pillars, by Jim Rohn and Chris Widener, one of the characters states, “The only way things are going to change for you is when you change.”  It’s a variation of my favorite definition of crazy:  which is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.  For things to change, we must change.  For things to be different, we must do things differently than we have done before.  It probably means changing our  habits.

Now, I want to include others, so that no one who really wants to be on this trajectory will be left behind.  This is clearly not for everyone. Lots of people say they want things to be different, but aren’t willing to do things differently in order to make that happen.  And that’s OK.  But for those of us who have chosen to embrace this and do what it takes, it is incredibly rewarding – in every sense of the word.  And I am truly grateful to have found this powerful, all-inclusive business system and such a broadly helpful product line to share – because I definitely can’t play an electric guitar and believe me, you most certainly do not want to hear me sing!  

 To learn more please visit www.WealthWithHeart.net  Linda Compton