The Purpose Of Your Life by Carol Adrienne

Author:Carol Adrienne [Adrienne, Carol]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780062104670
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 1998-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

WHEN INTENTION BRINGS BRICK WALLS

What happens when you intend to start your own business, but find nothing but roadblocks? Have you set the wrong intention or was your intuition faulty? Mary is a thirty-six-year-old wife, mother, and accomplished businesswoman, who had set out to follow a new passion only to find the success she sought in the job she once hated. She had come to my three-month-long class years ago, and I wanted to know what her life was like now. Mary, a lovely, energetic, person one would describe as “spunky,” began by saying:

“Now that I’ve accomplished a successful six years in business, I quit to be home with my nine-year-old daughter and my husband, who is fighting prostate cancer. When I took your class in 1991, I was in a major life transition. I was getting a divorce, my finances had become a total disaster, and I was constantly either terrified or anxious. I was also giving up a lot of unhealthy habits—cigarettes, alcohol, and recreational drugs. On top of that, I was confronting my family’s disapproval.

“I had just started a job as a marketing assistant and researcher, and felt very little control with that position. I had to work under someone who lacked vision, and this was very hard for me. I’m the type who either has to lead, or be given a clear idea of where I am going.

“I absolutely hated my job, and when I signed up for your class, I didn’t think I could face even going into work every day. I was passionate about starting my own business in the area of financial counseling. Even though I was completely passionate about my consulting business, I was constantly struggling to get it going.

“I guess I really learned that old saying, We plan and God laughs. I kept trying to get away from where I was. I thought one more day of that job, and my brain would explode. Every moment was spent calculating how to find some way to support myself in my own business.

“Finally, I guess I had an epiphany. I was getting nowhere. At some point after our class, I decided to take control of my job. Somebody got fired there and I began to think maybe I could have the satisfaction I was looking for by making this position my own. I thought, ‘If this is where I’m going to be, I’ll make the best of it.’ Since I couldn’t seem to get away from it, I decided to completely change my perception of it. Somehow, I had to face that things were not flowing to get my own business off the ground, and I didn’t feel I could leave my job because of having to support myself and my daughter.

“But an amazing thing happened. Once I turned my attention toward the job, I doubled my income. I got a car and a car phone, and started having fun. I began to design a vision and a mission for the company. As I became more present in the situation, I was much more productive.

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