Hi everyone. If you haven’t seen a blog post from me for while, it’s because I’ve been more or less intravenously connected to my PC for the past 3 weeks getting ready for the big Grand Opening of Spirit Authors, which is coming up in only 3 days (yikes!).

I wanted to share with you my realisation that Spirit Authors was actually something I’ve been dreaming about in some form or another since I was a teenager.

Let me tell you a story.

When I was 15 years old, I was a classical violinist growing up on Long Island, New York. I played in several youth orchestras and also in opera companies. Well, in one of these opera companies was a very handsome young boy my age named Bobby. I had a fierce crush on him. Bobby was a brilliant pianist and one day he asked me to come to his house to attend a piano recital he and his sister were giving. Of course, because I had such a school-girl crush on him, I immediately said, “YES!” I went to the recital, my heart pounding as I sat in the small, but enthusiastic audience. As I practically swooned to the strains of Chopin, I could not possibly know this event would change my destiny.

Sitting in the small basement recital hall, I thought to myself:

I love this feeling. I want to duplicate it every day of my life. I MUST open a school some day. I want lots and lots of musicians to come and play, and lots of people to applaud them. I’ll have lots of teachers and there’ll be so much stuff going on. So much music. So many people. And I’ll be the one who brings them all together. I will create the space and open the doors and they can create the magic.

From that day, I decided it was my life’s ambition to open a music school.

Well, I did go on to become a music teacher. I did indeed hold many music recitals for my students. It was wonderful to see their friends and families applauding them and their faces shining with self-satisfaction. But I never created a full-fledged school.

Later in life, I moved to the UK, became music technology teacher, and did a Masters in distance education, where I learned to create online courses. I loved the idea of distance learning because it opened up the entire world to education. I had a vision of transforming the lives of thousands of people who had no access to higher education by creating online courses. Think of all people I could reach who would not otherwise be able to attend an educational institution! I thought.

I pitched this dream to a potential employer for a job as the head of a large Performing Arts department at a college here in the UK. Well, I got the job, but after two years, I realised that no one was really interested in my creating some big global online virtual learning environment. I guess it had sounded pretty cool during the interview, but when it came down to day-to-day operations, this vision simply didn’t fit into the status quo. I left the college, somewhat disheartened that no one shared the vision.

Not really knowing my direction, I did what any self-respecting 50-plus-year-old single woman would do in the middle of a mid-life… um… transition:

I decided to write a book.

Ok, I know that sounds like a non sequitur, but I had been writing poems and stories since I was 12. I had also just finished ghost writing several spirituality books for another author, and it had rekindled the spark inside me to publish a book in my own name, in my own voice.

It was during that same time period I became a coach. In one of my early training courses, we did a visualisation called “Future Self” (perhaps some of you have done it too?). During the visualisation, I saw myself as an old woman running a school, with lots of teachers, lots of people…

Hmmm… and yes, they were all playing music… but not the kind of music you listened to with your ears…

They were all playing the music of the heart.

Well it took me a few years to discover exactly what this elusive vision meant, and what it was calling me to do. After toying with many different “rough drafts” of what it might mean, and after becoming a self-published bestselling author, and establishing a successful practice as a book promotion coach for mind-body-spirit authors, it finally “hit” me:

It was time to create Spirit Authors.

It’s true. Spirit Authors was to be my “music” school AND my online learning environment. This would be the place that would turn up the volume of the music in the hearts of thousands, if not millions of people.

“Millions?” you ask?

Think about it. Let’s say I can help even a few hundred (say 500) spirit-based authors become published and launch wonderful, inspiring books that help to elevate the spirit and connect with Self in one way or another. Then, let’s say each of those authors is read and loved by even as few as 2000 readers worldwide. That would mean 1,000,000 people were being touched and transformed, whether directly or indirectly, by this humble project called Spirit Authors!

And I feel the magic already starting. Ever since announcing my intention to start Spirit Authors, I have enjoyed phenomenal help and support from hundreds of people. It’s as if the Universe is saying to me, “Yes! This is what was calling you back in the 1960s when you sat in Bobby’s basement listening to his unforgettably compelling rendition of Polonaise Militaire. We wanted you to remember that feeling so you could help others harness this same Cosmic Alchemy for themselves, and create a more beautiful world through their collective spirit and literary brilliance.”

So that’s my goal.

By the way, Bobby never asked me out, but I just found his website on the Internet, and apparently he’s still changing people’s lives with his stunning piano playing (still pretty cute, too!). But I’ll never forget him because it was that one moment when my heart swelled with the spirit of his music, that my life path became permanently altered, to bring me here and now, with all of you.

Thanks for reading.

Warm wishes,
Lynn Serafinn
Author, Transformation Coach, Book Promotion Coach
Creator of Spirit Authors
“Turning up the volume of the music in your heart!”

P.S.: Have YOU signed up for our Grand Opening yet?

SPIRIT AUTHORS GRAND OPENING WEBINAR WEEK
5 Days. 5 FR*EE Webcasts.
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Monday Feb 22 through Friday Feb 26
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8 – 9.30pm UK
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