Magic Bean Soufflé I was not allowed to ever believe in Santa Claus, lest when I found out it was my parents putting gifts under the tree and not some red clad fellow with a jiggly belly and a fluffy white beard, I might not believe in talking donkeys (Numbers 22:21-41), fish who provide coins (Matthew 17:24-27), or a Man who walks on water (Matthew 14:22-33).
Yes, I must maintain a sense of humor about my spirituality or else it all gets too heavy, serious -- and I’ll admit it -- tediously boring.
Raised by a minister and a math teacher, I cut my teeth on the Bible, fairy tales (uh, you did notice the name of our business is Cinderella Lucinda, right?), and the principles of two plus two always add up to four, unless God wants it to come out some other way.
In other words, my childhood was a confusing mix of practical and mystical.
So while I was taught to believe that anything is possible, I keep an open mind with a very skeptical eye, much needed for this last year’s journey through the transformational industry.
For example, Jack from beanstalk lore, has a similar story arc to many of the transformational leaders and authors du jour. He fell into hard times and following the familar plot line of today’s internet spiritual guides, he was probably “five or six figures in debt.”
That is, until he encountered a “thought leader” and traded his precious cow for five magic beans, which, he was told by said authority, would grow overnight to the sky and change his life -- 100% guaranteed or else he could get a refund, no questions asked.
The magic beans did grow overnight and soon Jack himself was a leading edge transformational guru, shimmying up the beanstalk, selling “how-to” programs and earning at least six figures a year “liberating” bags of gold, hens that lay golden eggs, and magic singing harps.
The following is what Groom and I have discovered about magic beans:
You don’t need a program to give them to you (or sell them at an exorbitant cost), because you already have them.
A good program will suggest that you may be able to access them the way they did, but no over the moon promises; a bad program says you can only access them if you use their method, and will probably need to purchase the Platinum program and join the Mastermind Members-Only group…
Here’s a free recipe to consider: Be clear about what you want, be open to something even better than that, and expect one of those things to happen.
Warning: Extra ingredients may cause the Magic Bean Soufflé to fall (ie.: doubts, worthiness issues, the how of it, etc.). If you need more details than that, feel free to sign up for our Platinum Level program…
Yes, I must maintain a sense of humor about my spirituality or else it all gets too heavy, serious -- and I’ll admit it -- tediously boring.
Raised by a minister and a math teacher, I cut my teeth on the Bible, fairy tales (uh, you did notice the name of our business is Cinderella Lucinda, right?), and the principles of two plus two always add up to four, unless God wants it to come out some other way.
In other words, my childhood was a confusing mix of practical and mystical.
So while I was taught to believe that anything is possible, I keep an open mind with a very skeptical eye, much needed for this last year’s journey through the transformational industry.
For example, Jack from beanstalk lore, has a similar story arc to many of the transformational leaders and authors du jour. He fell into hard times and following the familar plot line of today’s internet spiritual guides, he was probably “five or six figures in debt.”
That is, until he encountered a “thought leader” and traded his precious cow for five magic beans, which, he was told by said authority, would grow overnight to the sky and change his life -- 100% guaranteed or else he could get a refund, no questions asked.
The magic beans did grow overnight and soon Jack himself was a leading edge transformational guru, shimmying up the beanstalk, selling “how-to” programs and earning at least six figures a year “liberating” bags of gold, hens that lay golden eggs, and magic singing harps.
The following is what Groom and I have discovered about magic beans:
You don’t need a program to give them to you (or sell them at an exorbitant cost), because you already have them.
A good program will suggest that you may be able to access them the way they did, but no over the moon promises; a bad program says you can only access them if you use their method, and will probably need to purchase the Platinum program and join the Mastermind Members-Only group…
Here’s a free recipe to consider: Be clear about what you want, be open to something even better than that, and expect one of those things to happen.
Warning: Extra ingredients may cause the Magic Bean Soufflé to fall (ie.: doubts, worthiness issues, the how of it, etc.). If you need more details than that, feel free to sign up for our Platinum Level program…
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