This Post Isn’t a Coincidence
February 8th, 2007 by Chief NutFive or Six years ago, I read The Celestine Prophesy. I’m not a terribly religious guy, however, there was one very interesting thing that I picked up in the first reading of the book. (BTW, I’ve read it several times since). That is; the universe will continually throw “coincidences” at you until you take notice. It was that one insight that has had the most profound effect on my life since then …€” especially in business.
My wife, her sister and a good friend of ours ALSO believe that if you don’t take notice, eventually you’ll get hit in the head by the “universal frying pan” …. OUCH! Been there a few times. In retrospect, if you think you’ve been hit by the frying pan a few times in your life, PLEASE heed this advice;
TIP: If you stay open minded and actively keep an eye out for these “coincidences” and NOT shrug them off as meaningless but, instead, take action on them, the positive effect is an amazing thing. The more you open up, the more you notice. The more you take action, the more momentum the effects have.
There’s also a big movement right now surrounding the “Law of Attraction” … same thing.
Seth Godin posts about “Coincidences” here. In one story, he sat next to a “sort of weird guy” on an airplane and then ran into the same gentleman in a hotel gym later that evening. Spooooooky. In days gone by I would have brushed off this coincidence with a “…hmm, that’s odd” sort of remark. NOW, I’d go out of my way to engage this person in a conversation to find out what the connection is …€” why the universe is so clearly shoving us together. I’ve not once yet been disappointed in what I’ve discovered in that type of encounter.
Final advice: Open up … but avoid that frying pan!
