We all fall down

...and sometimes it's the best thing that could happen to us

Aug 09, 2025

When last we saw Ruby, she was ringing Poet-O’s bell and making a wish. She wished for “paid play”. In other words, she wants to be able to enjoy what she’s doing as she earns a living.…

The very thing Ruby needs is coming her way… BUT in a way she never could have imagined… or ever would have chosen...

Ruby is about to find out that the person offering a helping hand and the wise words is someone she holds in very high esteem…

And here it comes… the info that will send Ruby off in a whole new direction…

What began as a bad fall lands Ruby where she most wants to be — about to be hooked up with the perfect kind of job… for her.

“Seein’ it, learnin’ from it, enjoyin’ it… AND gettin’ paid for it.”

Let’s review how this opportunity ‘fell’ into Ruby’s lap….

✨ She GOT CLEAR about what she wanted: a job that’s so fun it feels like play

🚀 She WENT INTO ACTION around it: turned looking for such a job into her next Great New Game and began creating a game plan

💌 She got even MORE INTENTIONAL about it: formed it as a formal wish by ringing Poet-O’s bell

🎲 She had a WILLINGNESS TO TAKE CHANCES: was up for trying out for something she knew very little about

🤕 She took an unexpected FALL: the place in her Magical Mystery Tour where what she was after could come to her

We’re all on a path that is magical and mysterious

We’ve all got things we want from life, things we want to do with our lives.

We’re all traveling blind a good percentage of the time, doing the best we can with what we’ve got.

We’re all having one form of adventure after another. Adventures that include falls. BUT...

“No shame in falling, so long as you get back up and in the saddle.”
~ a Bike God

What if… a Fall is just a Detour?

Detours do make our trip a little less direct, but detours are there so we can avoid a problem… or so we can visit someplace else along the way.

What if a fall is doing the same thing for you?

And what if the detours/falls we take along our way are what make our ‘Tours’ so mysterious and magical? It’s true they don’t always feel that way when we’re plunk in the midst of them, but… it’s hard to deny that they give us things. Things we couldn’t get any other way.

Like it went for Ruby.

How else would she have ended up in a conversation with someone she admires so much that, were she left to her own devices, she’d never have talked to? AND find out she’s seen by them… and is respected by them… and can be fast-tracked to where she wants to go by them?

So magical, so mysterious.

How about you?

Have you ever been detoured along your way to somewhere?

In search of Love… but got detoured into loneliness? Only to find out the loneliness was fast-tracking you to the love inside yourself?

In pursuit of a Booming Business… but got detoured into burnout? Only to find out the burnout was fast-tracking you to better boundaries and the joy of process?

In search of Freedom… but got detoured into stuckness? Only to find out the stuckness was fast-tracking you to what freedom really means... for you?

The REAL point of a good detour/fall

Detours/falls happen because our ‘Tour’ is meant to do much more than just get us to where we want to be. Our Tour is also meant to turn us into the version of ourselves who can handle where we want to be.

Handle receiving it. Handle maintaining it. Handle growing with it.

Let’s tap

We’re going to tap to change how a “detour/fall” you experienced along your way — one that’s still being held by the unconscious part of you as a “bad fall”, maybe even a “rock bottom”, just something “not good” — we’re going to change that into something GOOD for you today. Something that serves you, supports you, strengthens you!

Tapping Script: From Misstep to Magical & Mysterious

We begin by…

Calling to mind a time you wanted something, were going after it, doing all the “right” things… but all your best efforts weren’t taking you from Point A to Point B the way you wanted them to. And maybe even took you to a very bad feeling place.

Scan the memory of it to find the darkest part of the experience. Find the worst part about it. The feeling in it… the thoughts that went along with it. What did you end up believing about yourself because of it?

Give this memory title. Write it down.

Measure 0-10, how unpleasant was ____ (the title of the memory you are working with)? Jot the number down, and let’s tap….

Tapping on the side of the hand

I’m thinking of that time…
That time when I wanted something so badly.
When I was doing everything “right.”
Focused. Committed. Showing up.
Giving it my ALL.
But still… I couldn’t get “there”.
It felt like I hit a wall.
Or worse — like life was working against me.
Like all my efforts were being ignored.
Like I was being tested or punished.
It was frustrating. Disheartening. Humiliating.
I remember how it felt.
When it seemed like nothing was working.
I’m honoring that this happened.
It’s part of my story.
Part of my life’s path.
I acknowledge and honor it now.

Stop tapping to visualize using color and measure again.
Tapping through the points…

What if that moment…
That dark, stuck, painful part of the story…
Wasn’t the end of the story?
What if that was the moment before the breakthrough?
And I just didn’t know it yet.

What if that experience — as uncomfortable as it was —
was actually a turning point?
Not a punishment, but a pivot.
What if life was never against me…
only guiding me in a way I didn’t yet understand?
What if that detour held something brilliant?
Something I couldn’t have seen as such
at that time?
But maybe I can see it now.
I allow this possibility.
The possibility that this was all for me.
That it helped to shape me. Strengthen me.
Reveal things I wouldn’t see otherwise.