Joining the Queue of Desirable Intention

I love it when the universe surprises me. Just when my energy flags and my motivation wavers, the universe throws me a tow rope and pulls me up onto my feet again.

This week was a long week at work, simply because it's a week of hard final evaluations for my trainees before they graduate, and anyone who tells you that life-altering evaluations are only tough for the students, is full of shit.

But the students all passed, if not with flying colours at least with walking shades or grey and dark blue. But I'm proud of them nonetheless.

The first universal shockra happened Wednesday night at the Great Canadian Laugh Off preliminary round at Yuk Yuk's here in Calgary. My set was solid, though not comprehended by the all of the mixed crowd (mixed with 'WHAT I won't say), but it WAS comprehended by one of the two people in attendance who mattered the most --- Mark Breslin, CEO & Founder of Yuk Yuk's. I introduced myself to Mark and he pulled me aside, sat me down and went over what did and did not like about my set. To sum up, he loved the concept and wants to see here I take it from here. He also wants to get me up on stage when I'm in Toronto in May. Very cool.

And then Saturday rolled around and the feeling that someone had seriously cut my strings and I was dragging my ass around rushed right in to slap my silly face a few times. I got myself to the group books signing at the local Chapters Bookstore and one by one I kept meeting cooler and cooler people, from a pretty lady on crutches there with her kids who bought my book for her best friend who really enjoys comedy to the musician photographer who just happens to run one of the biggest media companies in Canada, to authors who have had bestselling fiction, heartbreaking life changes and one or two who had smiles that lit up the world when they giggled. I even got to watch an impromptu realigning of chakras, something which needs to be seen to be believed. I also made some new friends who offered some interesting insights into my own life and made me see my own world clearer by shining their light in my direction.

I am grateful for the universe's sense of timing, sense of justice and most of all it's sense of humour.

Now I'm off to Denny's for a Lumberjack Slam, because my cholesterol levels just don't seem to be high enough. *L*

And that's all I have to say about that. Except... go out and buy Maryanne Pope's A Widow's Awakening and anything by thriller author Jeff Buick.

Ciao for now.


Tim Reynolds.
Author of Stand Up & Succeed
www.StandUpAndSucceed.com