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A peek into one of the Flying Monkey Missives

Alexia — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 21:06:11 +0000

I never intended to be secretive, but I’ve taken to only sending the Flying Monkey Missives to my email list. Partially because I think the content is best suited to something a bit more private, and because I want to create something especially for those who have trusted me with their emails.

But I’ve been hiding them for another reason. The world is scary. And letting the content in these missives get out is even scarier. What I write about can get intensely personal and spreading it around the whole frelling world isn’t my idea of fun.

But I do think that part of the last Flying Monkey Missive is important for the whole frelling world to know. Because it’s about the heart of what I’m doing and how I envision The Alternating Current helping you.

So… here goes:

The challenge, the thing I want to most do for you and for all closet Explorers is to bring that inner life outside. To bring the truth of who you really are into the world.

I stand for freedom. Freedom to be fully you in all your Creative Explorer-ness. Frell what everyone else says about propriety.

I stand for truth. Your truth, and your right to embody that truth.

I stand for knowledge. Your highest aim is to know yourself (yeah, my heritage is showing). And knowledge of your own desires and how to get what you want out of your life.

Now It’s out there.

We’ll see what happens next!

If you want to get in on the Flying Monkey Missives when the next one comes out, fill in your details to the top right.

Releasing the Flying Monkeys (they’re cute, not dangerous. I promise)

Alexia — Tue, 24 May 2011 16:34:03 +0000

Hey you…

It’s been a while.

And I know in the midst of all the stuff surrounding the Idea Evaluator Kit this past month you may not be getting a clear idea of who I am and what I do.

But that’s about to change.

It started with an old seafoam green typewriter, some ledger paper and some stream-of-consciousness, not to mention a healthy dose of metaphors (more on that soon).

I wrote from my heart to my people. You.

And let it sit for five days before I decided what to do with it.

Then I sent it out to my list yesterday and called it the Flying Monkey Missives (if you want to get the next one, sign up in the box to the right).

It was a scary thing. It was truly from my heart. From the depths of me and why I do what I do.

And the response was lovely. It made me realize that exposing some of that stuff I think will scare people away for being too untamed and unrefined is probably exactly what you need to see from me.

So in the next few days I’ll be revamping some of the content to reflect the metaphor I’m building this business on so you can see where you fit. It has to do with steampunk ships and flying monkeys and building seaworthy vessels and exploring the wide open seas.

In the meantime, I encourage you to find that thing you’ve been holding back from people. Find that wall you’ve put up between the real you & the world and poke it… see what happens.

Do what makes you come alive – a quote

Alexia — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:24:37 +0000

Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who are alive.

-Harold Whitman