CREATIVE CAREER TRANSITIONS / BRAZEN PURPOSE
LIVING FROM LOVE INSTEAD OF FEAR
Career Transition Tip: Claim the Joy of Not Having Clarity
So many of us feel awkward with career transition-- or transition of any kind. Yet the most exquisite lives stem from great adventures. That means there will times when you don’t have set answers. Those are also times when you are the most free and available to sudden genius or reinvention. In This Time I Dance! Creating the Work you Love (Tarcher/Penguin) I said, “You don’t have a Label but You do Have a Ticket.”
“And gradually process became a good thing, a desirable thing, even an enviable position. Because I came to the realization that, while I no longer had a label, I did have a ticket, a ticket to anywhere I wanted to go with my life. I didn’t just have a blank hole on my resume. I had a blank canvas. I could say yes to any desire, dance partner, sunbeam, hope, heartthrob, divine invitation, or adventure that crossed my path. Something would come. And meanwhile, I stood in an open field with all the stars above my head and my brazen arms wide open, unconditional, and I knew that I stood in exactly the right place where magic could find me. My vulnerability was the secret to my flexibility, and flexibility meant that I could move like tumbleweed on the wings of a heaven-sent wind. That wind would blow.”
---from This Time I Dance! Creating the Work you Love
So here’s my tip for you: Relish the opportunity in the unknown. Enjoy discovering yourself and your present life. The more open you are, the more easily you find the answers that lead you to your biggest life.
Inquiry: Can you think of a time when you “not knowing” was fun or productive? (Maybe like having a gift certificate to spend, but not knowing what you wanted yet?)
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Not Knowing
It's the not knowing that I struggle with most. Having that blank canvas is both a blessing and a curse. I am so blessed that I have the financial support to pursue most anything, but in some ways its a curse. I have so many passions and talents that often the path is not clear to me.
Choosing Love as Leader
having followed your blog with interest, i had planned to meet you at kripalu this past weekend & ordered your book to bring along. when the book arrived however, i was too excited to go anywhere. with hot tea in hand, i kissed the book & in my cozy 2 room life, stayed up all night reading it...loving the nourishment, craving & receiving as your words fueled my fire.
after decades of work as a bedside nurse, i began to shut down & relate to hypoxia, a condition i know well. after so much giving, without enough replenishment, i was becoming increasingly restless, agitated, dull, self-absorbed & acting out. exhaustion overwhelmed me as the oxygen demand increased. as i continued to "get tired" (medical jargon for acute distress), i knew the ventilator was next & transfer to icu imminent. i was scared & knew i had to quit my job to save my life.
within moments of driving from the hospital complex after my final shift, the realization that i just quit my job stunned me. i cozied curbside & began to wail from a place deep within. i took the time to enjoy the welcomed resusitation, oh how i deserved it! i felt my chest expand to receive love & more love, a hug from my happy heart; transfer to icu cancelled.
i am grateful to my family, friends, coworkers, reiki, prayer, songs, nature and others who have sustained me thus far. as a fierce & passionalte nurse, an unyielding advocate of self care often described as "a little out there", i can't explain the years of self denial & i've stopped searching for answers. i'm choosing love to take the lead and learning to trust it.
since my resignation, i've been unwinding, not doing & hanging out with my heart. i'm unemployed & resting in my 2 room palace. it's a strange & luscious time. in the book, you shared staring at air and singing to the cat & listening to the cat sing back, and not knowing what to do with an unstructured hour let alone the rest of life. oh my god, those confirmations have given me such hope....i'm on the right track.
my 2 room palace is now wallpapered with your words among others & my sacred space for healing & discovery. what do i love? well.. i'm passionate about sewing & love beautiful fabrics. to pursue and unfullfilled interest and "keep me busy", i purchased a sophisticated sewing machine before i resigned. as an inexperienced seamstress, i feel like a child learning to write my abc's- clumsy and uncoordinated, squirming in my chair. but can this love for sewing really nourish me, is it possible? you say,"trust the journey, follow love again and again, and i hear you!
i'm clinging to love, like a patient who reaches out to secure the mask providing life sustaining oxygen. i plan to take your online course on trust with great alacrity next month." life works in your favor when your do, trust the unseen networking of all of life, nothing calls us to penetrate the full faculities like raw freedom." i'm so grateful for this new opportunity to live a life of trust with love as leader. i am grateful and thank you for support throughout this incredible exciting and life changing journey!
sincerely, rae
Congratulations on Saving Your Own Life!
I am so grateful for your courage and your wisdom. You saved your own life, and your example willl save so many others! I love, too, that you're a "little out there," as most sane, intelligent, life-affirmng, creative individuals are. The courageous are often not the ones who hang out in the middle. The visionary are often not the ones who make due with suffering or never question how much love they can bring into their lives. You've made an amazing leap, and the leap is in consciousness. It will be reflected in your life as well.
We are all rooting for you dear one. I am celebrating you and sending you love and blessings, Tama
Love as Leader
yipee...celebrating me! i quit my job, retired the nurse & now soaring the skies with "my birds" ! i'm one feather among the others.... united in passion & purpose, "sticking together", reaching heights i never dreamed possible.
Pay attention to everything
Years ago, when I was getting my Master of Humanities, my wonderful master professor said to me (in response to my fretful queries about the direction my studies were taking me), "Pay attention to everything. You are not really engaged in an academic pursuit; you are involved in a vision quest. Furthermore, (he continued to say to me), a great community of masters has already put into words what you seek. It is your job to find them and to weave their work into the fabric of your own life."
I did not know where I was going at that time, or what I was seeking. I just knew it was something that was Very Important for me to learn. To allow myself to "not know" during that time, to become familiar with that dimly lit path, became one of the greatest mainstays of my faith, which has continued to endure for me. What I learned during that period of my life by being an open book was miraculous and tantalizing and transforming.
I so look forward to this next chapter! Thanks for identifying an essential ingredient of this whole process!
vision questing
I love this idea of vision questing. It's so true. Every action on this path is a pilgrimage. We are asked to be shamans in how we meet our lives. Sounds like you've already taken the peyote! Congratulations dear one. Being able to be comfortable and uncertain at the same time is a great strength. Yes! T