Hey Pinkies! Please welcome new friend and Pink God Phil Bolsta, author of Sixty Seconds: One Moment Changes Everything, a collection of 45 inspiring, life-changing stories from prominent people he interviewed, including Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer, Caroline Myss, Dr. Christiane Northrup, Neale Donald Walsch, and others.

Enjoy this post which we've taken from Phil's own blog, Triumph of the Spirit, which explains the incredible way we came into each other's lives.

Thanks to Phil for finding us, and here's to a long, synchronistic friendship.
 

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This synchronicity stuff is getting out of hand! After nearly two years of piling up my Writer’s Digest back issues, I finally opened up the most recent one. One of the articles I read featured well-written query letters to literary agents. In response to one of the actual letters, the agent it was sent to (whose name I paid no attention to) commented:

I then requested and read the full manuscript and proceeded to call up the author and tell her I would “get into a monkey knife fight” to represent her.

The agent’s “monkey knife fight” comment amused me; I don’t recall hearing that phrase before.

Fast-forward thirty minutes. In using Google Images to search for an image to accompany yesterday’s blog post about surrendering to the universe, I clicked on the first image that caught my attention: a woman in a green dress raising her arms toward the sky in serene surrender. Wondering if it was copyrighted or in the public domain, I began reading the accompanying text on Owning Pink, the website it came from. The post I was reading by Lissa Rankin pulled me in and, a few paragraphs later, to my astonishment, I read:

After receiving a gazillion rejection letters from literary agents, Barbara Poelle called me and said, “I would get in a monkey knife fight to represent this book.”

Whoa! Deja vu. I picked up the Writer’s Digest I had just been reading, flipped the pages until I found that first “monkey knife fight” reference and sure enough, the agent was Barbara Poelle, although the author was someone other than Lissa.

Now, the odds of me picking up that specific issue and reading that specific article at that specific time were small enough. But for me to then decide to write a blog post about that specific topic, click on a random image, actually read the accompanying text (which I rarely do) and find the same phrase (which I’d never heard before) by the same agent (whom I had never heard of before), well, I’d say the odds were just a tad remote.

Surrender to the universe indeed!

SYNCHRONICITY SQUARED!

At the beginning of this post, I wrote, “This synchronicity stuff is getting out of hand.” Turns out the universe was only getting started with yanking my chain!

I had intended the line above—Surrender to the universe indeed!—to be the end of this post. But a day and a half after writing it, I opened up my daily e-mail from InspireMeToday.com (click here to sign up for their free daily inspirational essays from people in all walks of life, brought to you by the inspirational Gail Lynne Goodwin) and found out that “Today’s Brilliance” was written by none other than ... wait for it ... Lissa Rankin, whose photo and website generated this whole post to begin with!

Somebody somewhere is trying to tell me something . . . or use me as an instrument to introduce you (or me) to Lissa Rankin and/or Barbara Poelle. I’m sure there are other possibilities that I’m not even aware of but I’m still too shocked about this crazy confluence of Google Images, Writer’s Digest and Inspire Me Today to write anything more coherently right now.

Ever amazed,
Phil


Interested in hearing more from Phil, Pinkies? He can be reached at philbolsta@mac.com. Follow Phil on Twitter at twitter.com/philbolsta and on facebook at facebook.com/philbolsta.