Expect a Miracle!
A couple of years back I got a call from a fellow artist and good friend, Mary. She had been talking to some of her colleagues and they wanted get together and discuss having a group art show. At the core of the discussion was how could we could come together as a group and further our careers.
This meeting took place about a year before I had written the Manifesting 123 book. I had already been talking to a lot of people about the manifesting techniques and some of them were in this group. Before our meeting I had been steadily using the techniques to help my art career. So when this call came in I had to smile. This was an idea I would’ve never come up with myself. I had to say yes because it sounded like just one of those opportunities I had been looking for.
We got together and kicked around some ideas. We didn’t want to do an exhibition together in a small way. It couldn’t be a coffee shop or library show but something that would have real meaning and would push us as artists. I went for the moon saying, “What I would like for us to do is a Museum show.” Well, what are the chances of that? But Mary came right back and said, “Hey, I know someone that works in a museum.” I was stunned, and then it hit me. I knew someone that worked in a museum too. It was the same person, so it was a arranged that Mary would give her a call the next morning.
It didn’t take long. Mary came back with good news the following afternoon. It was all arranged, we would show together at the Madden Museum of Art in Denver. We even got the date that we hoped for, September of that year. Amazing that it happened in one day.
Perfect! Our planning took place early in the year so we had months to prepare ourselves for the big show. We decided that we would do something beyond what we have been doing before, going larger and bolder. We used the title To Expand and set a high bar for ourselves.
Everyone got right to work. We used social media to show our works in progress and promote the show in advance. I had some ideas in mind but I was having a lot of trouble getting into the studio. My fellow exhibitors were continually posting new works. They were on fire.
For those of you that read my book, you’ll know that my manifesting priorities are first for perfect health and second, to do what I’m here to do. What follows on my personal list is everything that allows me to live comfortably and happily, including a successful art career.
Countless times I’ve been working in the studio when the phone rings. In minutes I know it is something that I can help with. This conversation comes under the heading of what I’m here to do. So I drop the painting and give priority to the task at hand.
It’s not just the phone calls. A lot of people come to lecture and teach here in Denver. There are many wonderful teachers and friends that stay at my home for a number of days. Of course a lot of friends also want to come by at that time to visit as well. It is impossible to paint during those events, but somehow my career gets taken care of, just as I specify it in my manifesting movie.
I am amazed at how the lovely buyers find my work so the bills get paid. I am very thankful for all of my galleries and distributors. I couldn’t do this without them.
What a busy year since that first meeting. A number of months have now gone by but if I really work hard, I can make up for lost time. I can still put together a large body of work, including those big canvases t’m driving for. I did get two very large oils blocked in, but man, I can’t get into the studio for any length of time to save my life! It seems I’ve got a brand-new career called “Ken is always doing what is here to do” and it became a full time job plus late nights.
So now I’m in real trouble. With two months before the show, I have precious little art to put on those big Museum walls. The two big canvases are still were they were two months ago, works in progress that need a lot of time and energy.
There is good news: exactly as I have manifested, my art sales are doing fine. I imagine that all my galleries are having steady sales and that all are happy. Then a tough call comes in from my California gallery. Business had been really tough for them. There is a depression going on although I haven’t felt it. The gallery is closing it’s doors and they are sending all of my artworks back. That’s really too bad. We were getting some traction there and it’s a great career market. If I wasn’t so busy with other things I would’ve been in a funk, but I didn’t have the time to care at the moment.
Three big crates of artworks appeared in a weeks time. I opened those heavy crates at the end of the day and brought all the paintings and pastels into the house. Then the funk found me and I went to bed, it had been another long, busy day.
I woke up the next morning with the usual first thought, “When am I going to get some painting time?” I had been involved in some good things that were helpful to many for months now, but it didn’t put paint on the canvases.
I grabbed a coffee and slow walked it into the room were all the returned artworks were stacked.
Then it hit me.
I was looking at the equivalent of three months of painting! It was some of my best work and everything was framed in pure gold – a few thousand dollars worth. There was a lot of art stacked there and a full weeks worth of framing time.
This is unbelievable. Just in the nick of time I had the bulk of the museum show framed and ready to go! It was already painted, framed and paid for. Somebody pinch me. I had been collecting a lot of manifesting stories and now a really big one is happening to me. I couldn’t have been happier. What a big relief!
I knew what would happen next. I was in the plan I had manifested. Somehow my schedule would allow me more painting time for those last two big ones. As it turned out, I was able to finish the two large ones and do one more.
When it was time to hang our works in the Museum, I had such an abundance of work my colleagues allowed me more wall space.
We had a great opening, saw a lot of old friends and made some new ones. A very nice ripple went out from that exhibition. All of my large works exhibited and many of the smaller ones have now sold.
I couldn’t ask for a better script. Without being able to paint, I manifested the equivalent of three months painting and a lot of very expensive picture framing. You’ve already read a number of stores were people have manifested the equivalent of money, but I never dreamed I could get my art works to paint and frame themselves. Wow, I can still feel that thrill today!
Something very similar has happened for me again this year but that’s a story for another time…
Make your plan and prioritize. Manifest and go forward. Somehow it will work out.
When I first began deferring to my priority of ‘doing what I’m here to do,’ it was stressful. I felt that I was not covering all the bases, getting behind in tasks and not keeping my nose to the grindstone, working to pay the expenses. I learned. Time after time, I was allowed to do the helpful thing and everything else was taken care of. Sometimes appointments would shift, bills would get paid, or with the reduction in a fixed expense, the equivalent of money would appear, lightening the load.
I finally got it. I am continually manifesting to do what I’m here to do and to live happily and comfortably. It works and works in the most unexpected ways. I’m continually surprised and encouraged to keep doing the 123! It’s the most important thing I can do each day.
Make your own miracles if you like.
Ken
