Welcome to Allowing the Universe where all things are possible.
We work to get into alignment to receive the bountiful wonders that we hold in escrow, just waiting for us to raise our vibrations to accept them coming into our lives.
It's all GOOD! It's all WONDER-FILLED and it's all for YOU!
Taking a job.. any job.. to keep afloat, but make it
the BEST job-gig ever!
I (and the Universe) know that many ppl out there are jobless right now. Or are
they just not deciding to hop into a new rowboat that could take them down a
different stream than they're used to?
Granted some of the job-gigs might be 'low end' in their opinionated realm, but
are they really?
We're all cognizant of other things we can be doing, but don't recognize them
for the fun they might just end up being. And an example of this for me was when
about 4 years ago I was working in a call center (THAT"S RIGHT!! Here in
America!!) and there was a lady, Deb, who would always bring in soaps she'd
made. They were very professionally made and wrapped and as we talked more, she
said she got them from a company in Chicago, but was also contracted to make
some of the soaps here and sell them at the flea market or wherever.
So, I'd buy some every couple of weeks, LOVED EM!! As time went on, I left the
call center and a year later, my friend Linda and I were wandering aimlessly
around the flea market and there she was! We stopped to talk and sniff soap ..
yeah, we're in a 12 step program for that, but we're not huffing out of paper
bags yet (I am Bekki and I AM a soapaholic).. And we said something like, wow,
let us know if you ever need help making the soap. She told us she was good for
now.
Another bit of time (a year) went by and I went to make a bank deposit and there
was a lady behind me in line at the ATM .. so?.. and then I went back to my car
and there on the vehicle in front of me was lettered in the window the soap
company that my friend Deb worked for: www.sudsmama.com ! What?? so I waited..
not entirely in stalk mode, but ALERT! .. and here she came. I hopped out of my
car and said, "Who are you? I recognize the company name!" turned out she's the
owner, also named Deb. And we talked for about 30 minutes. Seems she lives here
in town.
I told her I wanted to start carrying soap on my websites and scheduled a
meeting. So, Linda and I met w her and since Linda is a dog groomer, she wanted
clean organic stuff for her dogs. (Interesting that I always spell it god before
I type it dog.. maybe cause we're all god groomers!) Well, time went on w/o any
more contact and then when I was told that we were going to 3 days a week at the
driving place, versus my usual 5-6, my heart slammed and I panicked for a
second..
Ever see that advert where the guy is on a ladder and pulls something and the
ladder starts falling and he's freaking, then his face calms and he thinks, "ah,
I've got Aflack" and sort of half-smiles before he falls in the bushes? Same
sort of face came over me.. Ahhh.. I'll call The Debs and tell them that both
Linda and I have a LOT of availability.. 'ya need any helpers?'
I wrote them emails and owner Deb wrote back and said, it was amazing timing b/c
they were just finishing a contract and if they got a renewal of the contract
they would VERY much need us. And she'd let me know by the next monday. So as
not to bug them TOO much, I waited til wednesday to bug her again and GUESS
WHAT!?!?!?!?! They'd just finished one contract and had just gotten the contract
for another 5600 bars of soap and how soon could we start? (Side note.. we went,
we worked our buns off, our soap sold out on Home Shopping Network and we're
into our third contract with two more waiting. And they were dissatisfied at how
the soap, once they came in, and were re-wrapped individually. So they've added
that task to our list of tasks with additional $$ for the extras as well)
Now, how did this work? WE PAID ATTENTION. When we wish for the Universe to
bring us stuff, I think that an addendum request needs to also be added, "And
Please give us the POWER OF DISCERNMENT to know when it's being delivered to
us."
Since I work every room, sound out every person I meet and market the hell out
of myself, I'm never in lack (sometimes I look it square in the eye, but choose
not to respond to it). I think to succeed in anything, one must be a social
person, if for nothing else, to get the goodies. Yeah, it's work to stay working
and groovin in this life. But SO worth it!
But do you see how the Universe was gravitating The Debs and Linda and I to
getting together? It started YEARS ago! And by our cognizant memory of "things
that make you go 'hmmmm'" we were able to grab this meteor from the shower that
continues to go by all of us ALL the time and pluck it out of the rest and make
it work for us.
Opportunities are just like that.. constantly wandering by us and so many of us
are just
1. Not looking for it,
2. can't see it,
3. won't see it, or
4. Refuse to grab the star for some reason probably not even known by them!
What do you do if you've worked the same gig for a billion years and there are
no more gigs like that around to go work at?
One suggestion, list all your passions that you'd like to immerse yourself
into.
If you'd like to be around Ice Cream. Go find an ice cream place to work in..
This will show you the good, the bad and the frosty of what your passion is.
Just like an article I wrote a billion years ago about starting your own
business. Go work at a place like it to see if that's something you'd like to do
24/7 (cause that's what owning a biz is, right.. WORK!). See how it is worked,
good or bad and see what it takes to create the biz and keep it going. Same w
just getting a job.
What's cool is that you can dangle your pinkies into the water and decide if
it's too hot, too cold or just right.. ahhhhhhhhh.. You don't have to like it
enough to live there.. you only have to decide if you'd like to work there for a
while and keep some income floating in..
I want to someday learn how to make pizza.. and since I'd be working w kids
younger than my daughter and not actually related to them, I might not be as
annoying to them as I am to her.. wait.. oh, yeah, I will, but I WILL learn to
whip out pizza like a pro!! AND make a spot of money if I need to. And having
tossed, move on!
But think outside the bun.. find something to do for the fun and adventure of
it.. what do you have to lose? Many have not worked in a long time.. go
PLAY!!!!! It's sure better than packing to take to Goodwill and go live under a
bridge! AND you get free pizza or ice cream!
But DO SOMETHING. HAVE FUN and KEEP YOUR EARS AND EYEBALLS and MIND open to
what's being meteored past your very nose to grab one and do something else!
Now is the time for advenuture, fun and experimentation. Some of the greatest
inventions, Fortune 1000 companies and other cool things came from necessity of
having to jump into something and turn it around to make it GREAT!
The 'woe is me' thing keeps you totally rowing upstream and your mind and sense
of adventure totally locked down, unable to be accessed thru your fear of change
and your loathing of the situation at hand.
We're never given more than we CAN handle, just mostly more than we WANT to
handle. But by not handling anything, it guarantees that what might be a great
adventure could turn into a cataclysmic ICK situation.
We all have choices.. personally, I always chose fun and variety and ADVENTURE!
But for many, this could slam their sphyncter shut so that it sounds like the
double sonic boom not unlike a shuttle landing. May I suggest to all who can't
live the life we're in, we might all need to start engaging in to giving great
change a shot.. oy! vhat could it hoit?
When we were Mormon, we were told that someday, we'd have to ditch everything
and walk to Jefferson City, MO with hand carts.. hhmm.. can't remember why now,
or if even that's the place but I remember being told about having to walk a
great distance to get ... somewhere.. but I digress.. That time for many has
come NOW.
What are we doing about it? Doing the Nancy Kerrigan 'WHY MEEEEEEEEE?' wail and
cryin in our pretzels (and washing off ALL the salt), doesn't work. So our just
getting ON with what we now have to do needs to get started right now! I hope we
are doing the getting on with it.. many of us have no choice.. so what ever we
find, make good choices.. Look around see what's already around you, grab those
meteors of opportunity, difference and FUN!!!
And like Dr. Phil says.. LET"S DO IT!!!!!!
Love to all and as ABERS I KNOW we'll have a fabulous life with ourselves! ~
Bekki
Copyright 2008, Bekki Shanklin from her "Thinking All The Time" series
Contact Reverend Bekki at: allowingtheuniverse@earthlink.net