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Begin Again…
By Sue Frederick
“How can I possibly start over?”
you ask as we stare at the waves tumbling towards us on the beach. “I’m older now. Who would hire me?”
“It’s better this way,” I whisper. “You know it wasn’t good the way it
was.”
“Yes, I know that.”
“Do you remember being happy?”
I ask.
“Yes, it was in the early days of my career. I felt filled with possibility. But my job
became mostly drudgery and politics. None of that had anything to do with why I started.”
“Who
were you back then?” I ask. “What did you want your career to look like?”
“I
wanted to BE somebody - somebody smart and innovative who inspired people. Somebody who made a difference.”
“It didn’t turn out that way, did it? Why did you stay?”
“Money and
benefits. I was raising a family and afraid to give up job security. Now I’m tired from all the drama. I don’t
have the energy to start over. Yet I still have to make a living. I’m applying for jobs that I care nothing about and
NOT getting interviews.”
“You signed up for this challenge. Don’t bail out now.
You chose to be here in the midst of this economic crisis in order to be forced to remember your real mission; to raise the
consciousness of the planet with your gifts and talents – through your work,” I remind you as we walk through
the warm sand.
“It seems that everything is about money now,” you say with frustration
in your voice. “Everyone is making choices because of money - not because of who they are inside or their mission.”
“We’re looking at this economic downturn exactly backwards,” I explain. “Right
now we’re being called to do our great work – everyone of us. We need to focus on the new and enlightened ideas
that inspire us. When we grab hold of those ideas and launch a business or create a technology or think in a new way to solve
an old problem – money flows effortlessly.”
“So you’re saying I’m stuck
in the past.”
“Your pattern of looking at career as simply a paycheck and benefits is
an old paradigm that’s crumbling right now. It’s up for reinvention, thank goodness,” I laugh. “When
we think in those old patterns about work and money, we buy into the scarcity mindset that’s paralyzing so many people.
There’s still plenty of abundance on this planet. It’s required now that we work in more conscious, inspired ways
to attract it. Does that make sense?”
“How would I do that?” you ask with softness coming back into
your voice as you sit on the sand beside me.
“You take all the knowledge and experience you
gained in your old career and wrap it all together in a different way – a way that’s in alignment with who you
are -with your path and why you came here.”
“How?” you ask after a long pause –
running your fingers through the white sand.
“Remember when we talked about your path being
one of enlightened leadership – bringing new ideas to the world to solve our everyday problems?”
“That’s a far cry from what I’ve been doing for a paycheck.”
“That’s
why it didn’t work out for you. You weren’t living up to your true potential – what you signed up to do.”
“But how does someone make a living and support a family doing THAT?”
“Our
true work, the work we came here to do, always DOES support us financially. It’s the only real path to abundance and
success. That’s the law of divine order.”
“If this is all governed by divine order,
why is there such suffering and chaos?”
“It’s what we come to experience, to push
through - like wading in mud. It provides the resistance required to help us find our strength and purpose, to remember who
we are. In other words, it’s a great work-out for the soul.”
“You know, for years
I’ve dreamt of using my engineering background to develop a new technology that would ….”
“Well that’s your intuition, your higher self, telling you that’s what you came here to do.
You
always knew that your perspective was different from others. That’s on purpose.”
“The
funny thing is that in college I was part of a team who developed technology that enabled physically challenged people to
work on computers. I used my engineering talent to create something inspired and meaningful. It’s like I knew back then.
And then I fell off-path.”
“You chose survival instead of pursuing your dream. It’s
the same choice nearly everyone makes. But there’s a shift now – an opening. What if you remembered your original
intention? What if you could become the person you dreamt of being long ago?”
“How would I go about getting
my idea going and making money from it?” you ask as we stand up and start walking towards home.
“Now you’re
talking,” I laugh - brushing the sand from my clothes. “When we get back, we’ll make a list of action steps…”
If your career has recently ended, now is the time to think out of the box about what you’ve come
here to do. In order to tap into the great abundance that still abounds on this planet, you must think new thoughts about
your work.
Here are six ways to help you
do that:
1. What secret dreams have you stuffed away that you know are in alignment
with who you are and what you’ve come here to do? Make a list of them.
2. What needs do you see
in the world that inspire you to take action, think out of the box, get creative, and use your gifts to make a difference?
3. How can your answers to these questions be translated into a career plan? Write three ideas that
pop into your head.
4. What are three small, practical, baby steps you can take this week to move in
this direction?
5. Stop asking: “Who do I think I am to try to succeed at this new career?”
6. Start asking: “Who do I think I am to ignore the great work I already signed up for? Who
do I think I am to ignore the gifts and talents I brought with me? Who do I think I am to ignore the purpose of my life story?”
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Having Tea
By Sue Frederick
We’re having tea – strong, sweet tea - as we sit on
the stone veranda overlooking an emerald sea. You’re laughing and telling funny stories about the challenges in your
life when the conversation turns to career. “I don’t know – it’s just not clear to me what my true
work is or how to manifest it,” you explain. “The job I’m doing, well, it pays the bills. But I feel like
I’m dying inside.”
We sip our tea and look quietly out over the stone wall beside our
table – across the vast expanse of open water. There are white gulls in the distance and a gentle breeze ruffles the
cloth on our table.
“You’re a master soul, my friend. You’re
required to own up to your great work in this lifetime,” I whisper to you softly across the table. “Remember,
you signed up for this. You chose to come forward as a teacher to use your gifts to help raise the vibration of the planet.”
“I’m just not seeing it,” you sigh with frustration – putting down your cup forcefully
on its saucer. Again, we pull out your notebook and look at your name, your birth date. We add the digits again and study
the numbers. We meditate on your path.
“Yes, it’s a master
path,” I explain. “No way around it. And yes, you wrapped that lovely Pisces energy around it to flavor your mission
with emotion and intuition. It’s quite a lovely path, actually, though different from what most would people call a
‘normal’ life.”
“I guess that’s the problem,”
you moan. “I see the path, but how do I do it? I have to pay the mortgage and … the kids, well. That’s
another story…”
But you signed up for all that
as well, I remind you. “Now, you’re bumping up against a big choice-point in your life. What you
do and think about right now determines everything. And it models a way of living for your children who are watching every
move you make and don’t make.”
“I get that,” you
say softly.
“Are you focused on the great possibilities in front
of you, the potential solutions for making a change in your life? Or are you focused on the reasons why you can’t change?
Are you letting self-doubt and fear pull you down into the ‘pitiful self’ where there are no solutions and steps
can’t be taken?”
“Guess I have been feeling kinda pitiful,”
you say with a smile. “I just don’t feel good enough or smart enough to … I mean, who do I think I am to
want to do something important in the world?”
“You are who
you came here to be, and your mission is what it is. Don’t waste your energy doubting it. Let’s jot down some
baby steps you can take to investigate doing the work we talked about. Let’s see, you said you knew some people you
could talk to about that business idea. And there were some websites you were going to visit and phone calls to make…”
“But why do I have so much pain?”
you ask. “It hasn’t been an easy lifetime.”
“You set it up that way. The pain in your lifetime
is designed to become your fuel to do your work in the world – making the world a better place in your unique way. Your
pain becomes your motivation – your mission.”
“When I
grew up, I was abused and powerless as a child,” you explain. “I’m still wounded by that.”
“It means your mission now is to offer to others what you wished had been offered to you;
your work is to help others realize how powerful they are and learn to trust themselves and their own inner guidance –
in spite of whatever circumstances make them doubt themselves.”
“How?”
“By using your innate gifts in your work. Those gifts are always on purpose – not
incidental. They aren’t supposed to be relegated to hobbies or volunteer work. We are meant to make our living with
our gifts – not bury them.”
“Then why am
I so afraid?”
“Well that’s the ‘pitiful
self’ that we all have – our universal negativity. We can choose to give in to our fear and not live up to our
mission. Or we can choose to move forward anyway – using our fear as fuel to make us successful. At the end of our lifetime,
it matters to us how well we pushed past that fear and lived up to the mission.”
You ponder that for awhile as we finish the tea. Together, we write a list of baby steps you can take to investigate your
new career ideas, to move forward, to look into possibilities for change. You promise to focus your thoughts on solutions,
and you promise to meditate or pray every day for at least 20 minutes in order to tap into your higher self and remember your
mission.
We sit for a few more minutes in silence – watching the
ripples in the water below us. After awhile you say, “Okay, I’m good now. I remember.” You stand up from
the table.
You wake up.
Author
and Career Intuitive Sue Frederick’s work, described as a “breath of fresh air” and “an enlightened
new perspective,” has been featured in Yoga Journal, Natural Health, Fit Yoga, and at venues like The Crossings Retreat
Center in Austin. She’s the author of Dancing at Your Desk, I See Your Dream Job, and BrilliantDay. For more info email
Sue@BrilliantWork.com or call 303-939-8574.
