Reverb 10: Action

When it comes to aspirations, it’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen. What’s your next step? (Author: Scott Belsky)

Recently, I interviewed for a long-term job with the company at which I have been contracting since August.  It was a grueling three-and-a-half hour interview that left my brain feeling squishy and not quite able to tell right side up from down.  I waited three weeks to hear the news, putting on a happy face and pushing through my work day while they interviewed other candidates. I commiserated with friends and bemoaned my in-limbo state to just about anyone that would listen. This afternoon, I was offered the job.  I was told that it was because I work hard, I am good at what I do, and I follow through on my word.  I earned my place there, something that not everyone got the opportunity to do. After the last six months I have had, I am thrilled, honored, and so very relieved to say yes.

Do you believe in the power of prayer?  The power of intention?  I do.  I believe that I made that wish to the Powers That Be ... "I want a job here" ... and I was able to take the steps needed to make it happen ... "and I will do anything to get it."  I had a ton of support, there were fingers and toes crossed for me all over the country, in fact.  I truly believe that if you put something to the Universe, and if you work hard at your end of the deal, the Universe will come through in the end.  I started a ten-week temp assignment in August with no promise of more, but I threw myself into it, and I made it happen.  Aspiration or action?  I think it's both.  Did it happen because I worked for it?  Yes.  And because I wanted it too?  You betcha.

Sometimes action is quiet.  Sometimes it's as simple as a whispered prayer on an elevator on the way to a job interview.  Sometimes action is obvious.  Sometimes it is a fifty-hour work week and being the last one on your floor on a Friday afternoon.

"If you work really hard, and you are kind, amazing things will happen to you." Conan O'Brien

I am so proud of this achievement.  I am so happy that I put this intention into the unknown, and so excited that it came back to me this way.  I am thrilled with the opportunity, thrilled that my hard-work has paid off.

Sometimes, when you work really hard, you get exactly what you want.

(reverb10.com)