CLOSE YOUR EYES, PUT YOURSELF IN A PLACE OF STILL AND QUIET*Use your imagination, imagine yourself working at something, or a variety of things, you greatly enjoy. You feel alive. You feel you are using your talents: this “work” comes easily to you, and yet you are called upon to stretch and grow. You look forward to getting up in the morning (or afternoon, or evening!) and doing this work, or traveling to another location. Time passes without you noticing it because you are so engrossed and interested. You think: "I am having so much fun I would pay THEM for this job!" Now stop for a moment and FEEL how good you feel! Hold that feeling as long as you can. Don’t censor what comes into your mind. You can use this as a guide if it is helpful:
STRUCTURE
+What is the “structure” or non-structure of this work? Is it fulltime? Part time? Do you work mostly during the day? Or night? Do you travel to your work, walk or cycle to it, live “within” it, or is it in a room in your home? Is your workday free-flowing? Or do you have many appointments? Is it work + travel? +How are you dressed? When you look at others around you, how are they dressed?
WORKING WITH OTHERS, ALONE, OR BOTH?
+Do you work with other people? Do you see yourself meeting with others? Or just chatting with others now and then? What do these others look like? Are they all about your age? Do they have a variety of nationalities, or are they mostly people like you? Male or Female? , What languages are being spoken? Babies, children or young adults? What are these others doing? Something similar to you –or different? Or do you generally work alone and occasionally with others? Or mostly alone?+Do you have a “boss” or a person to turn to with questions? Or do you consult with a group of people? Are there other “living” things around you? Animals? Plants?
TOOLS OF THE TRADE
+What are the “tools” of your job? Do you use a computer? Art supplies? Telephone? Are there books around you? Pens and pencils? Sports equipment? Any other media? Construction materials? Laboratory equipment? Kitchen Utencils? Plants? Vehicles?
LOCATION
+Where are you working? At home? In an office? Outside? What do your surroundings look like? Are they bright with lots of light? Are there colors around you? Or with low lights, calm and quiet? Do you have an enclosed office to yourself? Are you having meetings with others in a beautiful room? Are you outside? If so where? What is the view outside your window? Is there is a window? What is the weather like around you? Are you in a variety of places, or one?
SUBSTANCE
+ What are you doing? Do you see yourself speaking? Working quietly? Laughing? Are you creating something? Are working with numbers? Are you doing a variety of tasks? Are you moving from place to place or do you stay in one spot? Is your work detail oriented? Is it general and more conceptual? Or both? Are you building something? Maintaining something? Creating something new? All of the above? Are you solving problems? Or helping others solve them? Are you learning, or applying what you already know –or both? Are you sharing your knowledge with others verbally, or communicating it in some quieter way, for example through writing or creating something new? Are you on a team as a contributor? Or do you work happily as a solitary figure? Or is there a combination of solitary and work with others? If so, what is the balance of time in each of those areas? If you are learning new things, how are you doing that? Are you in classes? Learning from others? Do you have a boss who is guiding you? Are you studying on your own? Or learning from experience?What does the substance of this work look like? What is the subject matter? Is it something you have done as a hobby, something you are already doing in your career? Or is it something entirely new? Is it creating something new? Or perhaps adjusting and maintain lists, numbers, facts? Are you researching? Are you using your body physically? + Is there something new and novel and different about what you are doing? Is it different from what anyone has done before…or something unusual? Or is it something more traditional and well-established?Now “see” yourself, with whatever came up with the mental images above, thriving, happy, feeling as if you are "contributing" exactly what your unique skills and talents are.Your life and work has meaning! FEEL that satisfaction, contentment, joy –whatever it feels like – and hold that feeling as long as you can!
HOW DO YOU FEEL NOW?
If you have trouble envisioning any of these, don’t worry! These images build on themselves over time –try this exercise a few times and see how it grows! You have started creating a new career for yourself! Thoughts and feelings are “things” –energy that shoots out into the world and brings back like energy! The important thing about this exercise is that you get to the feeling place, and hold it as long as you can.We may not know what we want to DO --but we know how we want to FEEL about our work Try this exercise a few times…it is YOURS and you get to decide what it looks like! If you do it more times you will “build” upon it. You will also “flash” on it during your day –you will see other things you would like to place into your vision. Ask for “help” with it, from whatever Source of Energy you believe in. You will get that help if you ask for it. The point is, whatever you are envisioning, that you feel into it –over time make it less and less a mental exercise, and more a FEELING one. Then, and perhaps this is the most challenging part: release your attachment to the outcome! It will manifest in ways you could never have imagined --even though you did VERY WELL with your imagination! If we have specific expectations about how things come to us, we will limit the endless possibilities available to us (possibilities that go beyond our imaginations). Our careers can manifest beyond our wildest dreams! The irony is: we must create the feelings we want, and then let them go. You have "called in " your new career. Now sit back and allow it to happen!Have fun with this! With warm regards, Jill
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