The art of Staying is about “being with” a process/thing in your life and trusting you’ll know what to do.

I had no idea that simple, yet difficult act would pay off or impact my life.  Tell me if you’ve ever had this experience.

In July of this year I purchased a service which should have provided me promotion and advertisement for my key note speaking services.  In other words, I was offered promise that by hiring them it would save me time, energy, and money and I wouldn’t have to worry about promoting that part of my business ever again.  After all, who doesn’t want to save time, energy, and money, right?  I did my due diligence and researched both the company and it’s customers and intuitively made the decision to hire them…and then, 2 days later, it all fell to pieces.  They received my money and it seemed like they dropped off the face of the earth.  Where were my promises I was made?  Why couldn’t I reach the person who said she’d stay by my side and “promote the hell” out of me?

That was almost 5 months ago and I “stayed”.  I stayed with the questions, “Why was my intuition so strong to hire them and yet they’ve kept none of their promises?” and “What am I supposed to be learning in this whole mess?” and “Will I ever get my non-refundable (according to them) $525 back?”  Because I stayed, I got the answers to those questions and continued to trust (even though it had been 5 months) that all would work out. And it did.

Do you ever have stuff happen like this where it is so clear that you should do something and then it seemingly backfires?  I’d love to hear what you do about it or how you “be with” it.

My final thoughts – there is such power in the art of staying with a process, learning from it and trusting that something beautiful will come out of it.