Bloggy Love: Meet Craig of Bloomverse

Bloggy Love came from a desire to introduce & connect really cool, creative peeps to each other.  So grab your favorite beverage, settle in and get to know Craig.  He is a super-duper encourager & loves to help peeps with their ‘stumbly bits’.

Craig

Why don’t you introduce yourself:

I’m called Craig, my body is 30 years old, I’m married to the most awesome gal I’ve ever met, and we have 2 boys who give me the perfect excuse to act like I’m 5. We have a 3^rd on the way too! I’m a musician and songwriter, a wannabe filmmaker, I like playing basketball, I play air drums compulsively, I try to make people laugh as often as I can, and I’m a total geek that likes tearing things apart & putting them back together. Seriously, I’d rather read technical manuals than fiction any day of the week. I’m always building and making stuff. It’s like a disease, but a really cool one.

Tell me a bit about how you share your creative gifts with the world.

Right now, I’m quite involved with helping others incorporate the Sedona Method in their lives, both through the BloomVerse community and also through personal coaching. It really came about quite haphazardly—some might even say accidentally. But I created the community to provide a friendly, encouraging place for people to explore the Method. I also blog about applying the Sedona Method in practical life, taking experiences that I’ve personally had and sharing them via the written word. I’ve also got some interesting things planned for the near future that I think will be both creative and extremely helpful.

Summarize the Sedona Method.

The Sedona Method is a really simple, but really powerful way to master your life by letting go of your emotional limitations and tapping into the incredible potential at your core. It’s living with your heart wide open x 10.

How did it help you make changes to your life?

Well, to be honest, by completely debunking everything I thought I knew about my life. As info-mercially as that may sound, I really don’t know any other way to put it. After deciding to use the Sedona Method habitually, I saw that every limitation I perceived in my life was a limitation that I consciously put in place. I also learned that the reason why they never seemed to go away was because I was willfully holding them in place. I learned how to just drop all the excess baggage and actually live life. I learned to stop trying to “make it happen” and just let it happen. Once I made that shift, every aspect of my life was given the space to improve on its own. Happiness, money, health, opportunities, relationships, you name it.

But the coolest thing I experienced was the fact that our basic nature as human beings is happiness. When you let go of all the emotional content, what’s left is happiness—and it’s effortless happiness. I honestly never knew that! I never knew that I could be happy so much for no reason at all.

Pick 3 posts on your blog that are your faves.

Why you should let go of wanting to change your life; and how to do it

4 ways to quickly and easily get unstuck

Right now you don’t have any problems

Who are some bloggy peeps that inspire you (3 max)?

I love reading what Brian Clark writes (and I dig his taste in music as well) and I’m also really enjoying Jonathan Fields. Both help me immeasurably in the area of getting across what I want to say. I really enjoy David Ellzey too. He doesn’t blog often, but he is such a creative and interesting Sedona Method teacher.

What does your typical day look like?

I’m up somewhere between 5:30 and 6:00 in the morning, and I go wake my oldest son (6 years old) up. We eat breakfast together and talk about things like Super Mario Brothers and what makes people float in space. I fix my lunch for the day and before I leave, I get my 18 month old into his high chair and we spend a few minutes making nonsensical vocalizations at one another. My wife takes over from there. I grab a coffee and head to my full time job, spending the 45 minute drive rocking out in the car. I work an engineering support job called configuration management for the prime Space Shuttle contractor at Kennedy Space Center. Throughout the day I check in on the online world via my phone and also scrawl out random ideas that pop into my head on pieces of notebook paper (There are folded up pieces of paper with these ideas stashed all over my workspace at home).

I get home around 4:30, eat dinner with the family, take my oldest to soccer practice if he has it, and afterwards I play with the kids (major highlight of the day). Then we get the boys bathed and ready for bed. Occasionally I play the Wii with my oldest, he loves it. I also work part-time for Google (I telecommute), so I’ll put in an hour or two a night doing that. Spend some time with my wife and then it’s off to bed around 11:00. That’s the usual Monday thru Friday. I work on BloomVerse projects throughout the day every day. I also hold personal coaching sessions with clients as-needed.

How do you motivate yourself when you just don’t ‘feel’ like doing a task.

Well, a lot of times if I’m not feeling particularly motivated I’ll just allow it to be that way. I’ve never really had much luck trying to force myself to do things in the past. So if I have something I need to do but am not really feeling any motivation to do it, I’ll just let it be that way. I’ll go move on to something else and come back when I’m ready.

What advice would you give to people who are taking a “leap”, creatively or personally?

Challenge your concepts of limitation. Doubt their substance. Examine them and test them to see if they’re real or not.

I’ve always been a really creative person, but I also had a lot of conditioning growing up which led me to operate from a perspective of scarcity and caution. That’s really not a combination of traits that complement one another. J Later on I found out that they weren’t real. They were illusions that I allowed to control my decision making.

Concepts of limitation can unfortunately influence people to refrain from doing really awesome things—especially creative people that want to do creative things for a living. But they are only feelings. So my advice would be this:

Be completely honest with yourself. What’s your leap? When you think about doing it, what kind of feelings does it stir up inside? Pinpoint the ones that seem to be blocking you from the direction you want to go in. Don’t fight them, let them be. If you stop resisting feelings you don’t like, they’ll just dissolve. It’s really that easy.

When you let the emotional content drop away, there’s nothing left but clear reasoning and a bunch of opportunity. At that point, my only advice is to have fun!

What kind of music do you listen to in order to focus your energy?

Being a musician for the past 18 years, I actually like a pretty broad range of music. I have a near obsession with 90’s alternative rock. My iPod is filled with it. So most of the time you’ll find me listening to that. But I also like roots rock, jazz fusion, blues, and even symphonic music. My oldest son and I have been known to wreak havoc on air guitar and air drums to harder stuff like Killswitch Engage sometimes as well. It really just depends on what’s calling my name at the time.

What is your favorite snacky food.

Right now, it’s Kettle brand Sea Salt & Vinegar potato chips. My wife stopped buying them out of frustration because I can seriously eat the entire bag in one sitting.

Animal crackers are a close second.

What are your top 3 goals for the rest of this year?

1) Continue to help people change their lives.

2) Poise to move my family to North Carolina.

3) Finalize an online workshop that I’m working on.

Share about what you are currently venturing into:

I’m currently doing a lot of “behind the scenes” work on BloomVerse. It’s a very young community (under 3 months old) but it is growing rather quickly. I’m creating workshops and training curriculum because I’ve gotten a ton of feedback showing interest in that. So I’m in a process of addressing the interests of the community members by transposing what has worked so well for me into actionable solutions for them. When I’m done I’ll be rolling out some workshops that will be incredibly unique, but more importantly, incredibly effective.

Craig recently wrote a book about the Sedona Method called Uncover Life (click on the title to check it out!).