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The night before my last day at the university, my six year old daughter and I were finishing up our prayers when I said to her:
“You know sweetie, tomorrow is a big day.”
“Why daddy?”
“Because tomorrow is daddy’s last day working in the big red building and I’m going to start working as a writer. I’m a little scared.”
“Yeah, I was scared too when I started the 1st grade. Then I made some friends and I wasn’t scared anymore. You just have to make new friends daddy, then everything will be ok.”
I told this story to my fellow co-workers the following morning during my farewell breakfast. I wanted to remind everyone including myself that it is the relationships that we formed these past eight years and the new ones in our future that define the quality of our lives. I was reminded of the importance of connecting with people as a way to reduce fear by a wise six year old and by my buddy Wayne Dyer.
While listening to his CD, Transformation: The Next step to the No Limit Person, I heard a message loud and clear: “Don’t get lost in the fascination of charting a new course and forget the reason why you are doing this.”
It’s easy to make this process about finding ways to replace my old university income, impressing publishers and editors or proving to the world that manifestation really does work. If this is my intention, then fear will undoubtedly set in. But if I keep the real reasons I am doing this in the forefront of my mind and heart: to connect with more people, to serve in a greater way, to heal souls, to raise consciousness and to bridge the gap between me and Me, between myself and my Higher Self, then effortless joy, passion and love replaces fear. Each of these higher intentions has at their root the making of new friends.
The practical aspects of my new life are falling into place. I have heard from three published authors that have offered to help me. I have purchased the domain for metatransformationsconsulting.com, .org, .biz and .universe. (joking on the last one) I have signed up for classes with Dr. Donald Epstein on the 12 Stages of Healing, I am researching the role of mythology in transformation and whether Malcolm Gladwell’s work in books like The Tipping Point or Blink illustrate a transmission of the transformational moment from one to the masses. I can’t however, get lost in thinking that changing my work and life circumstances are the drivers of my writing.
I have had an energy healing teacher and mentor for over a year now. I saw him today and one of the many insights he imparted was regarding whether it is important to conceptualize my path. Is this about helping, writing, leaving a job that had dried up, traveling with my family, astral traveling, transcending form? What is this about? Did I have to leave my secure job?
He told me a story of a man going up a mountain. This man was busy following the path and could see the top of the mountain. Then came the moment when the path was no longer visible. He could still see the top but knew that if he was to reach it, he would have to be guided every step of the way. He became aware that he could no longer be the doer. There was no longer a path, yet he was moving closer and closer to the top. How he would get there did not matter as long as he trusted that he would get there.
These 30 days may lead you to a new career path like it did for me or it may lead to using the path you are on as your vehicle, trusting that either way, you are being perfectly guided every step of the way to deeper connections and an elimination of fear.
I’ve been thinking about the phrase I used yesterday-"Dare to be disappointed." What if for one day, we all focused only on what we believe is too good to be true for our lives? Give it a shot, and see what the mind clings to.
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