If You Build It, They Will Come

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Throw on your stonewashed jeans and get out your Big League Chew because I’m about to get all 1980’s and Kevin Costner in this blog! 

Some twenty five years after the box office first released Field of Dreams, I finally saw it for the first time last weekend.  My reason for finally watching it was not because there was an 80’s movie marathon on television, nor because I was celebrating spring and the beginning of baseball season (although I am excited about both of those things).  Instead I watched it because the Universe gave me some really strong signs that I had to for some reason.  Here’s a recap on how my “Inner Box Office” led me to watch this inspiring movie:

Weeks ago I randomly thought of Field of Dreams while my boyfriend and I were scanning Netflix for something to watch that night.  It popped into my head and I thought it would be perfect since he loves sports movies and I love feel-good inspiring movies.  I thought, “Field of Dreams is our movie match-made-in-heaven!”  But then we couldn’t find it on Netflix and we just kind of forgot about it.    

Then came this past weekend when I was participating in a Career Intuitive Coaching training webinar.  As part of the training, we had to give practice sessions to other participants in the group (whom we had never met before).  As luck would have it, a beautiful woman named Helen was selected to give my reading on Saturday afternoon. 

Helen is extremely intuitive and throughout the session was spot on with some of her insights into my life and her guidance for me.  About half way into the session, she giggled and told me there was a really random movie reference that came up during her meditation on me and also that kept coming up in her head during our session.  She apologized in advance if it didn’t make any sense to me but thought she should share it just in case.

She then said, “If you build it, they will come.”  Pause.  “You know, from that movie Field of Dreams.”

I laughed and told her how we had just been talking about watching that movie.  I also told her how the quote made me think of my business; that when I put the effort into growing it, the clients that will most benefit from my coaching always find me organically.  I then made a mental note that I should really watch that movie and proceeded to forgot about it again.

Literally four hours after the session, after going out to dinner, my boyfriend (who had no idea what happened during my session) turned to me and said “We should watch Field of Dreams tonight.”  My mouth fell open and I just stared at him in awe. 

He then laughed and whispered “If you build it, they will come.” 

Needless to say, that was a strong enough message from the Universe to get through to even my sometimes-oblivious head.  We watched the movie that night and I was blown away at what a beautiful metaphor it was for following our intuition—even when it does not make logical sense or seems impossible.

Who knew a baseball movie from the 80’s could inspire me to follow my gut, whether or not it might seem crazy to my logical brain (or to my friends and family)?  My logical “thinking” mind certainly didn’t know, but my intuition did.  And Helen’s intuition did.  And apparently my boyfriend’s intuition did on some level too. 

Sure this could all be explained away as a coincidence.  But I believe that there is something bigger going on in life than our logical brains might understand.  How exciting that we all have an internal guidance system telling us to do things that will inspire us and help us grow in life! 

Sometimes that guidance takes the form of multiple people telling you to watch a certain movie or read a certain book.  Sometimes you might keep seeing or hearing about a certain location that you should visit.  Or, like in the movie, maybe a voice tells you to mow down perfectly good crops to build a baseball field on your farm!  What would happen if we all started listening to that guidance and seeing where it leads?    

What has your gut been telling you to do that might seem crazy?  I want to hear about it in the comments below!

Yours in Inspiration and Baseball,
Tina :)

p.s.  One other thing I learned after watching Field of Dreams is that the quote is actually “If you build it, he will come.”  Who knew?  Probably the Universe.  ;)

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