The Revolution Begins When YOU take Control...
I'd like to share a story with you about two interesting people
that we ALL know.
Ms. Jane D. Acceptor thinks, "I got this dead-end job, I'm bored
to tears, but hey -- it pays my bills. It keeps a roof over my
head. So what I hate what I do, and I'm not crazy about the
people I work with...it's a job. Aren't you supposed to hate
your job?"
Jane goes through life just accepting how it all turns out. But
Mrs. Wendy Ago-Getter is a different animal. She used to be in
Jane's place, she actually worked in the cubicle right next to
her. She and Jane used to complain, complain and complain about
how their boss was an idiot, how management had no clue, and
about how other co-workers got on their nerves. Sure they
weren't the nicest things to say about others but they had a
roaring good time doing it! They were bitter and thrived off of
each other's negative energy. They threw pity parties on a daily
basis on instant messenger and on their lunch breaks.
But then...something changed. Wendy's Husband, Mr. Getter
introduced her to the law of attraction, because her bad
attitude was bringing him down and causing their marriage to get
a bit rocky. Once Wendy started to become aware of how she
allowed her energy to flow, she also noticed how depression and
unhappiness took control of her life. It seemed as if she WANTED
this for herself. And it was at this moment when she realized
she had the power to make a change.
With this gradual mental shift she started to get to know
herself a bit more. She started to dig deep for her inner power.
When Wendy had free time, she wrote children's books and found
pleasure in this craft. Whenever she got home, and after she put
her five year old to bed, she wrote. She loved her newly
rediscovered, (I'm not sure this makes sense. If it is
rediscovered can it really be called new? Maybe change to newly
discovered instead.), imagination where all her stories stemmed
from. After all, it came natural to her. It was so easy to
create fun characters. What she loved most was reading them to
her daughter and seeing that smile on her face as she entered
that imaginary land with Wendy.
Well, Jane thought what Wendy was doing was just ridiculous.
Writing children's books, COME ON, GET REAL! Jane became jealous
when Wendy slowly started to pull away from her. The lunch
breaks went down from two a week to none a week. Wendy enjoyed
writing in the park on her break instead. Wendy felt alive
again. She had so much fun writing.
One day Wendy's daughter brought in one of Wendy's book to
school so that the teacher could read it to the class. The
teacher was thoroughly impressed with her writing style. She was
especially taken aback at the students' reaction to the story.
They LOVED it! Turns out the teacher's brother was an agent for
authors and the teacher didn't hesitate to set up a meeting with
him and Wendy. Wendy couldn't believe it. "My little old books?
It was just a hobby. I would do it for free," she raved. But
then she started to accept her gift and realized that she did
deserve whatever was coming to her. She started to picture her
book on shelves of books stores, she imagined children in the
park reading her books, she saw her daughter bragging about her
mom -- the author! Positive visualization became her daily
habit. Her husband told her that her mental shift is what caused
these changes in her life. There are NO COINCIDENCES.
A month later, her company downsized her department and of
course that was no surprise. She received a pretty good
severance and was actually thrilled for the opportunity to write
more. Turns out, her new agent landed her a bidding war for her
books. Simon & Schuster and Random House wanted a two-book deal
from her. They were up to 50k for her advance; she hoped it
would go even higher!
Could this be happening? Wendy and her husband were practically
floating from the stream of good news. It was like a darn fairly
tale in one of her books.
Funny enough, Jane D. Acceptor didn't get laid off. She was
transferred to another department and given even more work to
cover all of the folks that left. Jane wasn't happy about it but
of course, what the heck could she do?
The fact is she could do a whole lot. We are all deliberate
creators of our lives. Wendy(Do you mean Jane?) was just
existing but not living.
News flash: Continue living your life as a victim and focusing
on what's wrong with everything and placing blame on everyone
will only bring more of what you DON'T want into your life.
How 'bout looking in the mirror and starting there. Where we are
right this very second is because of what we have done in our
past. The fairy tale that Wendy is now living is very possible.
You can do a 360 with your career, your business and your
relationships when you are not sleep-walking through life. When
you take the blinders off and start paying attention to exactly
what you are putting out there. (This is a fragment. This
sentence leaves the reader hanging. Consider deleting)
It's sad to say that we have all been brainwashed into thinking
that most of our desires are not only self-serving egotistical
no-no's but absurdly impossible.