The Resources Are Already Here

Signs, intuition, and learning to listen differently.

I originally thought this week’s blog might be a simple “what’s inspiring me right now” kind of note.

Something light and personal to reconnect with you here after taking a 2-week break to get settled into my new routine with my kiddo at home from school for the summer.

And then, as I started thinking about what is actually inspiring me right now, I realized it's not just a book or a podcast or a playlist or a business idea. (Although all of those things are definitely present and getting me fired up! Check out my P.S. at the bottom.)

What's actually inspiring me is this deeper realization that everything in life really does seem to line up exactly how it's supposed to.

But we have to be paying attention.

We have to be willing to see the signs with open eyes and be willing to listen differently than we usually do.

Because I do believe that God, Source, Creator, the Universe, whatever language feels most true to you, is always giving us clues. Always.

Often the clues come through people, numbers, or symbols. 

And sometimes, for me anyway, they come through animals. Like...

The same damn animal crossing my path so many times that I finally have to stop and say, “Okay, what are you trying to tell me?!”

Which brings me to the raccoon.

Because apparently, this is where we are going today. 🦝🥰

There is a raccoon that lives somewhere around my house, and this little creature has crossed my path at least six times over the last month or two.

I've seen him (not sure why I think he's male, but...) while working at my desk, during a coaching call, standing on my vibration plate.. you get the picture. He keeps showing up. And it's always during the day which is a little out of the norm since they're primarily nocturnal creatures.

And then, after having brunch with my dad today, I was driving home and a freaking raccoon crossed the highway in front of me. 

Again... in the middle of the day!

Okay, this felt less like coincidence and more like, “RANDI, ARE YOU PAYING ATTENTION YET?!”

Naturally, I'd already looked up the spiritual meaning of raccoon appearances after maybe the third sighting, and I did again today for a little refresher as I continued my drive home.

"Hey Google, tell me the spiritual significance of a raccoon crossing my path multiple times during the day." 

The themes that came up were resourcefulness, hidden truths, adaptability, and... looking at the resources that are already in front of you.

And as I listened to Google Gemini tell me all about the raccoon in the lovely Australian accent I chose for her, I just sat there stunned, dumbfounded in (dis)belief because that's exactly what I've been doing lately.

In my life and my business... 
In my grief and in my leadership...
In the back office, behind-the-scenes bits that no one else sees but that absolutely shape everything in my life.

I've been asking myself some questions and reviewing what is already here.

What have I already built?
What do I already know?
What do I already have access to?
What wisdom have I already earned?
What is sitting right in front of me that I have not fully recognized yet?

And then the word resource itself started working on me.

Because look at it.

ReSOURCE.

Source is right there at the root of it.

And I know we can get very technical with language and root words, but I'm definitely not trying to write an etymology paper here. I'm talking about the way a word lands in your body when you realize that it's pointing to a bigger concept.

Source is the origin. It is the well from which everything springs forth.

In other words, Source is the place creation comes from.

And a resource?

A resource is something Source has already placed within reach.

It's something we can draw from, something we can return to, something that helps us rise again.

And maybe the “re” part is where we come in.

Maybe re-sourcing is what happens when we take what Source has already provided and choose to work with it again.

To see it again, to use it again, to create with it, or to transmute it into something better.

Re-sourcing is when we stop assuming the answer has to come from somewhere else and start noticing what's been here all along, ready to support us.

That thought has been lighting me the f*** up!

How often do we assume we need something new before we can move forward?

A new offer.
A new idea.
A new strategy.
A new system.
A new audience.
A new version of ourselves.
A new sign that is somehow clearer than the last fifteen signs we already received.

And look, sometimes I think new energy is needed. 

But I believe that oftentimes, the real invitation is to look again.

Re-source.

Look at the content you've already created.
The relationships you've already built.
The wisdom you've already earned.
Look at the services you already offer.
The systems that are almost working.
The body of work that already exists. 

Look at the life experience that has already shaped you.

Maybe the resource is already here.

Maybe it's been here this whole time.

Perhaps you just need to learn how to listen and see differently. 

That has been one of the big shifts in my personal life since my mom passed away.

I still talk to her.

Sometimes I take walks and have conversations with her. I often see 8:08 on the clock, which became a very significant number around the time she went into the hospital last October, and I know to stop, acknowledge it, talk to her, listen for signs. What was I just thinking about right before I saw that? There's guidance there.

I don't listen with my 3D human ears, it's something else entirely. A part of me that had to open in a different way after grief changed the shape of my life.

And that is the thing about loss, intuition, leadership, creativity, and conscious business...

They all ask us to listen differently.

The logical mind is useful, yes.

(If you know me at all, then you know I derive a great deal of pleasure from a good plan. I love clean numbers. I love structure. I love a pretty spreadsheet... all of those things tell the truth. I'm a truthseeker. It's what makes me good at what I do.)

But the logical mind is clearly not the only way we receive information. Thankfully, more people are starting to understand this as we collectively find our way back to consciousness.

Sometimes we receive information for the next right step through a feeling (sshhhhhhhhhh... listen to your body).
Sometimes it comes through a repeated number.
Or through a conversation with someone you love.
If you're like me, it comes through the animal that keeps showing up outside your house.
It could come through the thing you keep trying to ignore because it feels too obvious, too simple, or too weird.

Or maybe it's trying to come through the inner voice you keep avoiding because it's speaking an unwanted truth about something you'd hoped would have a different outcome. 

In all honesty, some of the most important guidance I've received in my life hasn't come from forcing an answer.

It has come from paying attention.

This is one of the reasons why I haven't forced myself to record a new vlog for The Manifesting Strategist channel for the last two weeks. I've got tons of content ideas, but phew! Gotta slow down.

Last week I already had enough social content scheduled to "stay in the social media game" eye roll, and this week I'm taking time to catch up on uploading YouTube Shorts and cleaning up my YouTube profile page, something that has been screaming for my attention since January.

That might sound like boring back-end business stuff, but it doesn't feel boring to me. 

It feels like re-sourcing.

It feels like looking at this body of work I've already created and saying, “There's value here. There's life here. There is solid guidance here already for the people who need me. Let me tend to this.”

Instead of pushing myself to create something brand new just for the sake of producing more, I'm taking the time to organize what already exists so people can actually find it, receive it, and use it.

That is part of leadership, too.

Leadership is not just about the big visionary moments, the new ideas, launches and big announcements. 

Leadership is also about tending the work.

Honoring what has already come through, making the path easier to follow, seeing the resource that is right there at your fingertips.

So this is what's inspiring me right now.

The reminder that Source has already placed so much within reach.

The invitation is to look again, to listen differently. 

To ask, “What is already here that I can create with now?”

So if you're feeling a little disconnected from your own inspiration, maybe start there.

What keeps showing up?

What keeps crossing your path?

What have you already built, learned, written, created, survived, or understood that you are not fully using yet?

What resource have you been overlooking because you assumed the answer had to come from somewhere else?

Inspiration is not always about chasing the next new thing.

Sometimes it's a number on the clock or a conversation with someone you love.

Sometimes it's a memory, a nudge, a pattern, a song lyric, a symbol, a feeling.

And sometimes, apparently, it is a raccoon crossing the road in broad daylight, basically saying:

“Girl. Look again. The resources are already here.”

P.S. Here's the list of my current inspirational things I was going to share with you and expand upon, but then I decided to tell you about the raccoon instead.

Book: Conversations with God, Book 1 by Neale Donald Walsch

Podcast: Gaia Consciousness 

Instagram: dr.alja.podgornik

Netflix: The Four Seasons & The Boroughs

Music: Gonna just come on out of the closet now... Taylor Swift. ALL the eras.

Movie: Disclosure Day
No, it’s not out yet... only 1 more day! Spielberg is spilling the beans! 👽🛸📡

Business Idea: The Vision to Execution Accelerator

What's inspiring you these days? Shoot me a note and tell me about it!