For months now, I’ve been intensely focused on the alchemy of creation-writing and recording the digital program, How to Rule Your World from the Inside Out.

All of my creative energy-along with my time, attention, love, and physical, emotional, financial and spiritual resources-has flowed into making and growing this baby.

I said, “No, I’m sorry, I’m writing” so often that my friends stopped asking me out to dinner; to concerts and movies; for visits or to play or to walk on the beach.

My whole being was attuned to the pattern of this program, listening for what it wanted to be. Over and over, my yearning heart leaned out of my chest, reaching for the far horizon, knowing it would recede before me.

Yet, as I leaned and reached and called, the creative matrix of wholeness answered. The Deva-the soul essence of How to Rule Your World-became my beloved friend and creative partner.

Wholeness also connected me with my own evolving, incarnating self, and with all the forces that conspired together to weave a basket that could hold this new baby.

Many strands have woven themselves into that basket.

The Deva of this program includes, in its energy field, the love, devotion, skill and heart of its friends and allies: Danielle LaPorte; Alexandra Franzen; Havi Brooks; Jennifer Louden; Alicia Diaz; Dorothy MacLean; P.K. Page; Colleen Wainwright; Pam Slim; Richard Miller; Sarah Bray; Mariko Gordon; Judith Snider.

I’m so grateful for their love, support, encouragement, and collaboration.

And now, the new baby is here. Today is her birthday.

She’s here, and she’s beautiful! I feel a little shy around her; a little in awe of her radiance.

And, I feel a bit lost. When I realized, yesterday, that I could take the day off-do anything I wanted-I felt bereft.

There were tears. Of exhaustion. Relief. Grief. And something else.

My heart wants a ritual to celebrate this birth with my community.

When I look around to discover what rituals exist, in the online world, I don’t see them, yet. It’s up to us to create the rituals that will define and anchor the culture of our community.

In the mainstream publishing world, there are long-standing traditions and rituals of celebration. When each of my books was published, my publisher threw a book launch party. Friends and colleagues, collaborators and readers gathered together to welcome the new book into the world. To celebrate its arrival, and the process that culminated in its birth.

How do we, in our virtual, online world, celebrate the birth of our creations?

There is such a rich, fizzing ferment of creativity among us. We are indeed creative entrepreneurs!

We are always reaching into the unknown, dancing with the mystery. Every day, we offer our tender hearts and our beautiful creations to the world.

Our creations may be as radiantly fluid as Chameli Ardagh’s new online community, The Women’s Ashram. They may have a very clear and grounded focus, like Alexis Neely’s Money Map To Freedom program. They may be a vision of what the world can be, like Jennifer Louden’s new heart-song of Serve and Savor. They may be an annual re-visioning of an already successful intentional community, like Havi Brooks’ Kitchen Table.

Whatever their size or shape, our creations-and their creators-need rituals of recognition, honor and celebration. These rituals bring us closer to each other, to ourselves, and to the sacredness of our work.

Rituals anchor the passage from one state of being to another. They help clarify, define, and ground our creations in the rich soil of our relationships.

They remind us that we create because we are fractals of the Sacred. Beyond the necessities of earning a living and taking care of our families, we create because creativity is coded in our DNA.

We are drawn to the entrepreneurial life because it nourishes creativity. It gives us the freedom and the support to contribute to the vibrancy and wholeness of our world.

Last year, my friend Michele Woodward invited some of us to speak at her virtual birthday party. It was a wonderful celebration of her, and of the community that loves her.

It was a new ritual for a new kind of community.

Let’s put our hearts together and create new traditions.

How can we, as a community, celebrate together?

And, as we explore this question, I offer a gift of celebration from my heart to yours: Creating the Home of Your Heart: a guided meditation excerpted from How to Rule Your World from the Inside Out.

Click here to read (or right-click to download).

Are you the sovereign ruler of your inner kingdom?

As a sovereign being, your life belongs to you.

Reclaim your creative power, joy & certainty. Rule your world — begin today.

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