Heed your call by David M. Howitt

Author:David M. Howitt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atria Books

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TRUST AND SURRENDER: WELCOMING THE UNKNOWN

“The most visible creators I know of are those artists whose medium is life itself . . . They are the artists of being alive.”

—J. Stone

To the typical “left-brain” thinker, my wife, Heather, would not be considered the type to build, let alone sell, a successful business. She does not have an advanced business degree, and she doesn’t access her analytical, business side as much as she does her creative side. When she began to develop Oregon Chai, I still believed the path to abundance was one of hard work, of being smarter, faster, or better, so I was, shamelessly, one of the people who didn’t believe in her. Heather proved all of us nonbelievers wrong. She created Oregon Chai from the perspective of a pure mind filled with wonder. She was impervious to the word can’t. She was going to succeed at building her business, and she knew her vision to be absolutely true.

Heather is one of my greatest teachers when it comes to the principles of trust and surrender. At first, I thought she was out of her damn mind when the spark ignited within her and she said to me one day, “I want to start a chai company, David.” I was immediately annoyed. At the time, we had student loans piling up, I was just finishing law school and did not yet have a job, she didn’t have a job, and we needed to start looking for work and saving for a house. So when it sounded like she wanted to have a hobby that would look something like owning a company, I told her it wasn’t happening. I flat out did not support her. She ignored me.

It’s important to note this occurred about one year prior to my getting a job at the law firm and two years prior to the night my eyes fell on the Preparation H. When Heather began brewing chai, I was not living my dharma. I was still stuck in the abyss, and so any spark of ingenuity that did not fit into my known world of possibility was out of the question. Thinking back on it now, I shudder to consider that, had she listened to me, we may not have experienced the great fortune we did nor would we have enhanced the lives of millions of consumers worldwide with her tasty brew.

I couldn’t stop Heather, but I did not back off on making snide remarks or patronizing and undermining her. I would say things like, “Why don’t you do what the rest of the world does and use your degree to get a job?” Enraged, sometimes I would plead with her to stop spending the little income we had on cinnamon, clove, honey, and milk. She would just tune me out and carry on. After about a year of this, I got the job from hell. You can imagine how this escalated my anger and resentment of her pursuit. The more I hated

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