Thoughts on Collaboration

As the year began and my new realities formed, one of my highest intents was that I would collaborate. That I would vigorously mix business and pleasure and money and love and flow and creativity. I got engaged in Facebook and to a smaller extent Twitter. I try hard to create actual relationships with people, equals, mutually beneficial. I genuinely try to know those that would be known. I ask questions and encourage and support and try to understand their passions and mindsets. It’s not always easy but when it works, when there is real connection, it’s deeply rewarding and richly satisfying.

The wonderful group, Whispering Energy, has helped immensely as well. The leadership, the environment, and the amazing people have taught, led, helped, encouraged, assisted, and loved me. It’s a truly awesome place to be.

I’ve given a little thought to the nature of collaboration and why it’s so wonderfully successful and productive. Part of it is, I believe, the “Power of the Master Mind“.  I was introduced to this at a young age as my father was very excited by this and other facets of the book Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. I’ve only recently though, began to truly embrace and live this mindset. In essence, it says that when two minds come together a third entity is created which is larger and more energetic than the sum of the two minds. 1+1 = more than 2.

So collaboration sets in motion this ability to conjure and invent and discover thoughts that neither of the collaborators would attain individually and, further, more than both combined working as individuals.

Another reason that collaborations work well is a sort of loving competition that can result. It’s a bit like a game of leap frog where one person leaps over the other and vice versa. Or like a ladder where each person alternates climbing the next rung. It’s natural for me to want to reach and grow to the point where my peers are. So if I want to grow, I should surround myself with collaborators and teachers who have achieved more than I have. And as I surpass them, some of them will be motivated to surpass me, and vice versa. Loving and cooperative competition.

Collaboration is not without its pitfalls. There are personality differences, scheduling difficulties, egos, and the overhead required in communicating about action rather than simply taking the action. But the benefits far outweigh these challenges. At least that’s been my experience these past few weeks.

I’d love to hear your comments.

Much love,
Stevie Ray
Collaborator

Web Development 2010 – Embracing the new thinking…

Stevie Ray - January 30, 2010

The expansion continues. Of consciousness, of thought, of love, of grace, of miracles. And we who embrace this explosion of love and passion and peace are positioned to lead others – through our thoughts, our words, our actions, our creations, our love.

What does this have to do with web development? Nothing. And everything. And if you grasp my meaning, I hope you’ll continue reading…

In actuality, there’s not really all that much that’s new. Maybe all this has been known by some select few for all the ages. But what is different is the vast wave of newcomers to this awakening of thought. Rather than just a few philosophers and mystics and monks, lots and lots of regular people are finding the clarity of the perfection of oneness and love and peace.

And the duality is ending. So I’m not two people any more. I’m not an engineer by day and an artist by night. I’m not a web developer and poet; I’m a poetic web developer. I live the stuff. I love the people I work with. I love the things I work on. And I do mean love. I mean passionately. I love waking up every morning, filled with gratitude, diving into collaborative projects, loving connections, opportunities to release and grow and to manifest our dreams.

So with this change in mindset, in worldview, in paradigm, we need to change how we see and approach the internet. What worked well just a few months ago doesn’t work anymore. People, our audience, our partners, our friends, our customers and clients and potential customers and clients, are both more and less patient. They insist, this new wave of internet users, they insist on being loving and loved and staying in the truth – the new truth that we’re discovering and creating and influencing. And websites and tweets and postings and emails that don’t resonate, they simply let fall away. They don’t complain about fear or ignorance; they simply and quietly leave.

So our websites need to change. They need to attract rather than pull or push. They need to be pleasant and calming. They need to be respectful of the oneness that we know we all share. We need to meet people where they are, rather than ask them to make a special trip to see us. That means, for most of us, Facebook and Twitter, and to a smaller extent some others places like YouTube and LinkedIn. And blog sites, not that stand alone, but are part of larger communities such as Blogger or WordPress.

And we have to be fast. Our visitors and potential visitors will not give attention to a website or Facebook group or a Tweeter that’s not in line with their new understanding of love and light. We that embrace the amazing and sweeping changes are thriving. I hope you’ll join us.

I’d love to talk to you more if my ideas are in line with yours, to see how we can work together to create, to love, and to raise the universal consciousness.

With massive love and brilliant light,

Steve

Leap!! – a poem

Off and running…

Big changes for me as 2009 ended and 2010 began.  A whole lot of factors and forces combined to create a perfect storm. And my life got more simple. And I let some things go. I found new levels of knowledge, found new teachers, new mindsets, new horizons, and new ways to think about life and career and living in balance and love.

Life really can be tremendously abundant and flowing when we let go and both believe and take some action. There’s absolutely nothing that can’t be accomplished. And it’s so much easier when I let the naysayers and doubters go. And find people who live in love and openness and faith.

I’t s really cool to not have to hide pieces of myself. I used to be lots of different people. One with friends, another with family, a third with coworkers and clients. But not anymore. I’m me. Stevie Ray. Poetic web developer. Dancer, singer, lover of God. If you want to know what I know or believe, it’s very easy to find. I’m on facebook and twitter and myspace and lots of other places. I expose my expressions, my poetry, my heart, my silly dance, whatever. If you’re not comfortable with that, it’s perfectly cool with me.  Don’t try and change me and I won’t try and change you; best we just go our separate ways.

If, on the other hand, you enjoy the me you see, we should talk. See what we can build together. I love new projects. I love inspiring and helping people. And I love life.

Stylin’,
Stevie Ray