Good morning from New York City. What’s on my mind this morning is pattern recognition and the conversational nature of the universe. These are both things I’ve talked about before. As it relates to pattern recognition, I think the story I told on a past pod was about being an executive recruiter and noticing when a person popped into my mind more than once. I trained myself to notice and to act. I’m convinced that it was a contributing factor to my success. I think it was in part pattern recognition, meaning I was thinking about a certain brand or a certain group of people or certain group of jobs and people would pop into my mind. But the point I want to make here is that it’s the ‘more than once.’

I do strongly believe, nurture and participate in what I consider the conversational nature of the universe. I believe that God or Source or whatever you want to call it is always trying to communicate with us. That’s why my awareness practice is so important to me. I do think you need to cultivate awareness, and to pay attention to pattern recognition, I also believe that when you put a question out to the universe, when you talk out loud to yourself, when you think to yourself what next or what should I do, your job is to be looking for a response.

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