Make This Your Lucky Day

Chapter 1 The energies associated with this sector obviously will speak to your job, your income, and how you make a living and grab your paycheck. But it's so, so, so much more than that. This sector is about how you feel about yourself, way deep down inside. It goes directly to your sense of who you are, your self-esteem, and your confidence in your ability to take charge of your life. It's about who you are at your very core and how much you, individually, have to offer the world. See, every single solitary soul born on this planet brings with him or her something entirely special and unique to and for that person only. Gifts and talents, things that only they can do better than anyone else because those gifts and talents define their very identity and ideals as well as bring bright expectations and fuel to their dreams. Mrs. Fields evidently can bake a better chocolate chip cookie than I can (but, to be honest, that's not very hard to do). That's her gift, her talent, and, BONUS, she loves doing it. You get it, it's the old Joseph Campbell admonition to always "follow your bliss," because if you do what you absolutely love and are good at it, then the money will naturally follow. The harder question then remains: "What is my bliss?" "What am I better at than anyone else?" Uh-oh, is that a self-esteem issue I hear creeping into the Career area? Seriously, sometimes I have clients who have become so far removed from themselves and whatever their special gifts and talents are that I have to ask them to take a moment to answer this invasive but oh-so-illuminating question: "Okay, if I called your mother (or whoever raised you) right now, dead or alive, and asked her what you LOVED to do as a kid, what would she tell me?" Because chances are really, really high that whatever you loved to do as a kid is something shy of how you should be earning a paycheck now. Or, we can take the more "holistic" route where I ask, "What would happen if there were no money in the world and we all had to barter with one another to exist? Obviously your neighbor Joe the plumber could fix your broken pipes, but what, then, could you possibly offer him in return?" These are the really hard questions. In fact, they are standard Psychology 101. Why am I here? What's the point? To live, work, pay taxes, and die? NO! So, you see, although this energy has a name called Career, it's really all about YOU! Your gifts! Your talents! And your making money from them (because, let's face it, Joe ain't fixing your pipes for even anywhere close to free anytime soon). Your special gifts are there, that much I know. They sometimes get buried by the need to pay the mortgage, the tuition, the monthly telephone bill, but they exist and they are calling you nonetheless. So, maybe someday you can stop to answer that call (and smell the roses while you're at it, especially if you have a talent for floral arranging), and give some thought to what it is you've always dreamed about doing. Then take some of the time-tested and success-filled suggestions that follow and go get yourself the job of your dreams. If that's a bit too much of a leap for you at this moment, just start thinking about what you'd love to be doing day in and day out and do something, anything, to get that party started. In the meantime, the adjustments and cures included herein will bring you to the ladder and help you climb it, higher and higher, until you are at the tippy-top rung and ready to start all over again. And when that happens, try to give some thought to what the world would love from you. And see if you can use some of these cures to get to that place because then, my friend, you will have come hWhitehurst, Ellen is the author of 'Make This Your Lucky Day', published 2007 under ISBN 9780345500540 and ISBN 0345500547.