by Jenny Leather | Life Success
JOURNEY OF LEARNING TO PLAY THE GAME OF LIFE
Adapted article for chapter in “A cup of cappuccino for the Entrepreneur’s Spirit”
Jenny and Gary Leather–The journey to find the entrepreneur within required us to tap into our deepest creative energy, a part beyond words and beyond our thinking mind. Sometimes we create unconsciously, without being aware of how we are creating. We have spent the last twenty years understanding and mastering the process so that we can share the journey of creating with you, from a place of ease and grace.
We live in Melbourne, Australia. Married since twenty-four and have three beautiful sons. Jenny as a young women, saw herself as “not smart” because her grades were average, diagnosed dyslexic at 10 years old. Historically, we know that many entrepreneurs are challenged at school because they do not like being told what to do or how to think. But as a young woman, she did not know that she was an aspiring entrepreneur. She just knew she was “different.” On review Gary recognized he had always felt different as well. What they also had in common was “bloody mindedness” and determination. Her academic challenges were not going to stop her from following her dream of becoming a nurse one day. Gary’s spirit of adventure would inspire them forward through life challenges that would present..
Everyone told Jenny to be realistic, and asked her to consider something else. For her there was no second choice. In her heart, she was going to be a nurse. That unshakeable belief and commitment to do whatever it took were early signs of the entrepreneur within. The belief that what you want is possible, and the willingness to hold the tension until it arrives, is a core part of the magic of creation. Gary dream was to go to Australia even though his family and friends ridiculed his passion as an 8 years old young boy. For him it was a done deal this trait has been a gift all his life. The magic happened he arrived in Melbourne at 22 years old..
Amazingly to others, Jenny was accepted into nursing and enjoyed the profession for over twenty-five years. The work was extremely rewarding and she eventually worked as an intensive care nurse with very small, sick babies who needed organ transplants. But toward the end of that time felt burned out and yearned to do something different.
Another factor pulling her in a new direction was Gary’s dissatisfaction with life, and our son’s challenges to fit the normal model (go to school, achieve high grades, go to university). Gary had grown up in England and was blessed with the spirit of adventure. He travelled half way around the world and found true love in Melbourne. After settling down to married life he started his own structural steel drafting company. After 20 successful years he stared to get itchy feet looking for the next adventure. The energy that comes with enthusiasm had started to decrease. So what does an entrepreneurial-minded couple do? How do you support your husband’s desire for change? Go in search of answers outside the normal box.
We started to study success as we contemplated starting another business. What made one person successful and another unable to take the first step? There were many so-called “gurus” with questionable answers. We also found an amazing number of wonderful teachers as we tried to discover the best path to take.
Despite the fact that we were still somewhat afraid to venture out onto a new business terrain, we started investing in positive cash flow properties. Excitement and that energy that follows powered us forward. We went on to buy thirty properties in eighteen months. Our dream was to buy back our time, but instead we accidentally created another job–managing the properties and running our core business. We thought we were invincible and believed everything was going in the right direction, even though we had little free time. We enthusiastically kept pushing ourselves to learn more, studying both business and personal development with some of the best teachers in the world. Finally we decided to raise the bar and move into property development and investing with likeminded partners.
At first we thought the journey was about creating many millions of dollars. We did not understand the complexities that accompany money, and that there was no guarantee that monetary success would ever bring us to a place of joy, peace and contentment. In truth, despite our financial success, happiness was elusive.
Jenny felt all her old demons showed up, “Who do you think you are? Remember you are really not smart enough to achieve your dreams.” She had to examine whether this chatter was real, or if it was a way of holding her back from creating a greater life. Later we came to understand that we create it all–the so-called mess as well as the magic. We never really create one without the other–they are part of the creative process.
Larger projects brought with them bigger opportunities and challenges. The value of our personal development training became clearer to us. We were able to handle the many situations and challenges that presented themselves. We also learned that when developing larger projects, doubt can return more strongly. When we asked ourselves if we could stand in the heat of potential failure and still be okay, we were able to answer, “Yes.”
Soon after this, however, our youngest son was diagnosed with Burkett’s lymphoma. Throughout this ordeal we were strengthened by the same “bloody mindedness” that helped us earlier. Others have asked us where we found my strength. I think any parent with a sick child understands they draw on an internal power, God, universal energy. There are many different ways of explaining the unexplainable. We knew that we were not alone. Seven years later, Daniel is healthy and clear, but our financial world has been somewhat challenged due to decisions we made during this tumultuous time.
Today we are closer to understanding this universal energy than before. We came to understand that everything is connected: the entrepreneur in us is supported by the same energy that helped us cope with our son’s illness. More importantly, these situations have taught us that we are not our money, our house, or our car. We are also not just a mother, father, wife or husband. There is a part of us that is larger than all these roles.
This understanding has given us enormous freedom. For us now it is about asking better questions, not about having all the answers. “How can we enrich our personal journey? What experiences will bring us joy and happiness together? What do we truly value on a day-to-day basis? How can we use our experiences and insights into this journey called life to benefit likeminded individuals?” Ultimately these questions helped us to understand the answers that can support your journey.
Looking back, we achieved amazing outcomes. Yet on reviewing our life, we could see we had really been successful all along. For all entrepreneurs, I wonder if this is really our journey: to find and acknowledge ourselves and our value.
Everyone has a different definition of success. We spent years getting in our own way, but now know without a doubt that we created our own reality. By being willing to examine how we are holding our own growth back, we get to play a larger game if we want to. In truth, all challenges are a gift, an opportunity for us to learn something new. Our aim now is to play the game called life “flat out,” moving toward a richer, heart-centered life, and to share what we have learned with others.
Gary and Jenny Leather
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AUTHORS: Jenny was Featured in: A Cup of Cappuccino for the Entrepreneur’s Spirit ( Women Entrepreneur edition)by Jeretta Horn Nord and they were both featured in Dale Beaumont Secrets of Property millionaires Exposed
EDITOR’S NOTES: Jenny and Gary Leather live in Melbourne, Australia; they enjoy their role of speaker and coach focusing on a well-rounded version of wealth success that includes transformational healing. They are passionate about assisting individuals and groups to reclaim their own power so they can be in the driver’s seat of their lives. They feel we all create our outcomes, sometimes we need to be assisted to understand the real game of life.
by Jenny Leather | Reclaim Your Power, Relationship Success
The value of different roles we play
I spent the first 40 years of my life with no understanding that there could be something more to my life than being a mum, wife, daughter, nurse and property investor.
The majority of the time, I loved each of these roles while they were active, this now explains why I was successful when I was focused on any of them.
Each experience came with different challenges that I was later able to see the value and healing in each situation. I was unaware that I was playing these roles from my physical perspective alone. I now explain this as being asleep to a bigger picture of life. I totally ignored any support or guidance from the greater part of me. In truth I had no idea that I did not know what I did not know. This is the same for all of us until something happens in our life that starts us asking bigger and more powerful questions.
When you have no idea that you are having both a physical and spiritual journey at the same time, you have no idea how to access the insights or guidance required to support your growth. Hopefully by me sharing my journey honestly it may help with your understanding of this component of your life. By the way I love questions so please feel free to post.
It appears as we come into physicality we agree to forget any prior life or insights that we have acquired over many life times. This life, we set an intent we wish to experience XYZ and heal ABC so that ultimately we can remember who we are along with the gifts we have brought to share with the world.
As mentioned last time we are the director / producer of the script which ends up the movie of our life. We then take on the role of cast recruiter and call for cast volunteers. Then we agree to forget we did all this, weird!
This disconnection became apparent when I visited my amazing kinesiologist. I knew something was really out of alignment, really weird things were happening and I was very emotional. On muscle testing she told me the spirit (Right side of my body) was trying to convey a message for my greater good and the mind (Left side) was in shock and could not hear. Maybe it would mean change was required.
As we helped one side, the other side became depressed; luckily we got this worked out in one session. Both parts of the whole were able to hear and acknowledge each other’s level of understanding. Beautiful, I really needed help to rectify the situation I was unable to do this on my own, Remember it is OK to ask for help every now and again.
Obviously something had shocked me and the disconnection had occurred. Together my spirit/physical body was experiencing both good and bad times but instead of us seeing the experiences as MIS-TAKES to learn, reassess and refocus. The mind (Which is a bit more complex than we perhaps believe) steps in and makes a judgment / decision about the situation. This brings with it an emotional attachment to the experience.
The mind goes in search on your hard drive of your lives for similar situations that have brought up similar feelings either consciously or unconsciously. The mind then decides the reasons why something should and should not have occurred after reviewing the history from all life times. This is felt as an emotional response that is either guiding us forward or holding us back. It is up to us to choose what we decide to do at this point.
Deal with the emotion and grow or stuff it down and stay the same. Your choice! Now we are getting some understanding about our genetic line maybe playing a part in our decisions unconsciously. No one ever mentioned or taught us the value of dealing with how we feel in the moment. This would allow us to get both the learning and insights from every situation allowing us to heal all life times. Wow what a gift. This is happening daily and we are unaware, amazing!
It is this disconnection from remembering and understanding how our spirit is trying to support our healing and lift the veil that has been stopping us from remembering our own magnificence.
I understand this game called life is the weirdest game we have ever agreed to play. We are given a physical body, whether we like it or not it is absolutely perfect for us to learn a lesson that may hold a key for us to heal and reach our ultimate potential. One lesson I personally needed to learn / heal was acceptance and love of self. This has helped me to remember and connect back to all that is thereby remembering “I am the creator and script writer of my life”. By taking responsibility I am able to start Reclaiming my God given Power. Check out the gift Reclaim Your Power Flipchart. You can download by clicking on the opt in box. This chart supports you to understand energetically where you are at in any moment.
SUPPORT STEPS: When you are feeling over whelmed remember to breathe deeply into you abdomen. Slow the breath down and allow the feeling to flow through you choosing to feel the relief. What you resist persists because the emotion gets caught in the body so in the allowing it can flow on. Please remember you are cared and loved from above at all times. I know this from the depth of my being. Until next time love always.
Jenny
by Jenny Leather | Reclaim Your Power
Understanding this game called life
The truth is we are all amazing human beings with the unlimited potential to achieve or create anything we desire. The question for us has been, How do we tap into our potential?
We believe the most important place for humanity to start is to learn to “LOVE OURSELVES”.
We also understand the challenge this holds for a large number of us. We also have spent years challenged in this area of our lives. Yet this is so essential especially now because we cannot give what we do not own. LOVE!
This is what is required to heal the planet from our opinion. If we always asked “What would love say? Or what would love desire?” We would have no wars or abuse of another being on this planet.
It is time to step up to the plate and ask for support for you to either remember or heal whatever is stopping you shining.
The universe/god never denies us anything. We need to put a warning at this point, we have learned the lessons do not always come in a way we expected, so get ready for the ride.
The insights and lessons that you acquire will take your life to the next level.
We choose for this to happen with EASE!
We would love to share our understanding of this amazing journey we call” Life “over the coming weeks and months ahead.
Our story is coming from the understanding that we are first a spiritual being having an amazing journey through our physical body. God experience’s life through means of me!
As a spirit we could not experience or understand emotions without choosing to step back into this physical body. We had a vision for how the world could transform and reach it ultimate potential. We also had the understanding that we would be required to do some healing work to support this vision becoming a reality.
When we are in a spiritual form we have the connection to all that is and can understand everything that we need to learn. We understand we need to heal ourselves to reach the next level of evolution of the universe. We know that the physical reality on the earth plane that we get to experience is a mirror of that which is within us.
Don’t close on me yet this may be a bit of a challenge because we also agreed with the need to forget these memories. It was required so we can have experiences that will help us heal the challenged parts of ourselves.
The exciting news is everyone who visits your life especially those major players signed up to support you to grow.
Yes even the ones that have been the most challenging.
When you understand this you are able to honour and value their presence and gift.
Back in the spiritual realm you probably promised them that you would remember their sacrifice they pledged. Time to remember and this is fantastic in supporting you to drop all judgement. For me this has been an amazing gift.
The cosmic joke (God really is a trickster) is that “Emotions” are the key that can unlock the healing and thereby increase our vibration and ability to create our desire outcome. This can only happen while we are in the physical form.
Then the next problem occurs, when we are in physical form many of us stuff down our emotions then lay pieces of concrete on top of the pain, anger, and fear etc. thereby cheating ourselves out of the healing they offer.
Really we have been set up to only awaken as we heal yet our mind takes control early in life by having us fall victim to fear. (New topic) By choosing to feel the emotions you allow them to be released. Which ultimately increases our vibration this in turn enables us to access much greater support from our spiritual support teams.
Do you think it could be good to start informing your mind that you wish to be the boss and create consciously?
Yes! Well lets’ get started.
SUPPORT STEPS: Start by finding a quiet place and choose to focus or recall a moment when you were completely happy, just hold this thought for 15 -20 seconds. For some this may be difficult in the beginning. If you recognize the chatter starting, see the thoughts just running across a TV screen and see it go black as the thoughts just dissolve away. Repeat the process numerous times a day. Congratulate yourself! You are starting to consciously create your life by taking control of your mind…
Until we meet again love always Jenny
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