The Importance Of Investing (by Rebekah)
I’ve been contemplating lately on the importance of investing, not in a 401K account, but in our pleasurable lives. Vic Baranco, founder of Lafayette Morehouse, used to say “you can only coast in one direction, down.” Having a good and pleasurable life doesn’t just happen. You have to reach up, all the time. Recently, our house was feeling down. Everyone was complaining about everybody else, nobody was having any fun. In community, you might feel overwhelmed by the amount of work it looks like to shift the energy. I decided to worry about shifting my energy and trust that the rest of the house would take care of itself. And it worked.
How did I shift my energy? I really focussed on what I needed to feel taken care of and happy. I started exercising more, saying no when I needed to to requests, and singing along with You Tube voice lessons. Then when I got a little surplus going, I started to look for how I could contribute to the other people in the house. Some of it was anonymous, cleaning a person’s room, sneaking cookies into someone’s food cupboard. Other things were obvious, like going lingerie shopping with a housemate prior to her Advanced Sensuality course. Before I knew it, people were doing nice things for me too, the whole house was having fun again. 
Lately, we’ve had house meals almost every day. Yesterday, Wade and I gardened, and hopefully next spring we will have beautiful tulips in the front yard. 
Our charity, Stone Soup Collective, has gotten a new donor, and we are now getting tons of food to give away in the neighborhood. (Side note – I highly recommending giving away food. It never fails to raise my spirits and help me feel more deserving of my great life.)
I’m investing in my life and my business by writing to this blog, which has been sadly neglected since its inception. No re-frame. . . My blog which has been patiently waiting for me to show up and radiate out to the world. Here’s another tip that I was recently reminded of — find things right how they are now. There’s always up from here, and it’s a lot easier to go from good to better than trying to fix the bad.
In closing, another Vic quote — “The better it gets, the better it gets.”
