It was early morning, and I mean early\u2026 like 4:30 AM early, and I do love the early morning. I get to watch the sun rise and sometimes I see things I would never see once the sun comes up.\u00a0 It\u2019s also a great time to think about my day or just figure things out.\u00a0 My current thought is how in the early hours I have to pull into driveways that might not be the right one\u2026sometimes people put in the wrong address, or the house numbers are not visible. \u00a0After all the unnecessary, random shootings that we live with daily it does make me think twice about pulling into someone\u2019s driveway this early.\u00a0 I have been thinking about getting a bullet proof vest for a long time, and now I think it\u2019s time to make the move.\u00a0 It\u2019s a sad commentary about the times we are living\u2026 and this is my thought at the moment, but I digress, as this is not what I\u2019m writing about today.<\/p>\n
CLARA\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n There on the corner of some random back road in a very wooded neighborhood west of the city was Clara* at 4:30 AM with her suitcase in hand waiting patiently for my arrival. Clara was in her 70s, heading to the airport for a weekend wedding she was attending in NYC.\u00a0 She was extremely friendly, and we struck up a conversation immediately.\u00a0 She was visiting her daughter as she has been living temporarily in Maine for the last year.\u00a0 Her real home is on one of those islands outside Seattle.<\/p>\n As we were chatting while driving down a beautiful, but dark windy road\u2026 out of nowhere a Fox ran right in front of the car. I pointed this out to Clara who was pretty excited to see such an early morning sight.\u00a0 Literally 2 minutes later, an owl flies right across the road in front of us and I\u2019m thinking wow this is odd to see a Fox then an owl crossing my path like this\u2026 Clara was totally loving this drive.\u00a0 OK, that would have been considered a coincidence and I wouldn\u2019t be making a big deal of this, but then as I rounded the corner I had to hit my brakes hard as there was a fairly large deer standing right in the middle of the road!\u00a0 A fox, an owl & a deer? All in about 5 minutes of each other? Now this is rare, but as a coach I knew there had to be some meaning behind this.<\/p>\n SPIRIT MULES<\/strong><\/p>\n Spirit Mules or Spirit Guides are any kind of sign the universe sends your way. It could be a person, place or thing that comes into your life at a particular time to confirm or pull you back from something you have been thinking about\u2026 a decision, a goal, a change or an issue you might be trying to resolve.\u00a0 Most people miss these signs as they are too busy thinking about the future or the past and not being present in the moment.\u00a0 These signs are real and I have experienced many throughout my life. For example, when I was thinking about becoming a certified life coach, I picked up a woman and we had an amazing conversation about life coaching and she encouraged me to follow this through and that it was the perfect path for me.\u00a0 It turned out that she was a well-known author who had written 2 books on life coaching<\/p>\n (which she signed and gave to me). Now if that wasn\u2019t a Spirit Mule or Guide then I don\u2019t know what would be, as it gave me the sign that I was moving in the right direction.\u00a0 I was definitely moving towards my \u201cNorth Star\u201d, which is a metaphor for finding exactly what you were meant to do while on this planet.<\/p>\n I know you are probably thinking, what is in Jim\u2019s water?\u00a0 It sounds like something unreal that I might be looking too hard at simple occurrences in life.\u00a0 All I can tell you is it is real, and you too should try being more present in life.<\/p>\n