Occupy Your Career

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The gypsy lady has not hitched up the wagon because it is not time to move on but to take control. Power ceded to “the job market“, “the economic circumstances, “the cosmos”,”society’s expectations” and anything else must be reclaimed this year. As I mentioned last week, this is a “dragon” year, a year for bold moves.

First of all, who or what determines success in the job search and in life? Consider the nature of dreams. How does clarity come to answer the question about “what do I want to do with my life?” How are foggy dreams floating in space drawn down and wrapped in bones and flesh? KUJICHAGULIA.   Kujichagulia means, “self determination” in Swahili. The second day of the celebration of Kwanzaa is dedicated to the concept of respecting the self, exercising one’s own voice, and taking personal ownership of the products of one’s own mind. This includes the responsibility of owning, creating and managing the reality one brings into existence through accumulated thoughts and acts.

The District of Columbia may dislodge the occupation in McPherson Square, a public park. The forces of that occupation live in tents. Tents are temporary. However, each individual job seeker must fully occupy with intention and consciousness the individual “thought park” where a new positive reality must not just set up a temporary encampment but dig foundations and erect structures of a new thought reality. Deciding, “I shall not be moved”; occupying your career is the first step toward success.

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Happy New Year

Happy Chinese New Year.

The years cycle through twelve zodiac houses, each having its own animal symbol and 2012, according to Chinese reckoning, is a “dragon” year. That means this is a year to make bold movement, take decisive action and embrace a spirit of power. Not only that, in Chinese lore, one of ive elements, namely wood, fire, earth metal or water inform the year. The element informing this dragon year is water. Water is a natural shape shifter’s element. Water takes the shape of whatever it is in. Water can flow like a river, become cold, hard ice, or drift into the air as steam. It can be turbulent or calm; it can heal and it can kill. Water is also a symbol for spirit. Altogether, there is great promise in 2012. May we all be ready to ride the “big wave”, the back of the water dragon, to the beaches of success.

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The Dream Intended

The United States of America in the vision so lucidly described by Dr. Martin Luther King is not totally manifested yet and I question its ever coming into existence 100%, but it is a wonderful thing to see how much of it is now reality.

It inspires faith to keep believing that the things I envision; the things in my intention are hacking out space in reality as I focus each day on the good I want to see happen in my life. That includes a marvelous “act three” in my career. Its unarticulated body undeniably exists and is dancing within the womb of my soul. It keeps me up nights.  I am now creating its hands and feet and eyes and voice.

Now is not the time to stop dreaming. Dreaming may not be the appropriate word for the important work of building a reality. It approaches more closely the meaning of the word, “intention”, as used to describe what we do when we focus attention and resources on an end we want to see accomplished or something we desire come into being.

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SOS (Same Old Stuff)

Happy Old Year!

Well, are you not already slightly sad about how hard old habits are to shake? How easy it is to fall into the old habits that wore a gully in the synaptic mind paths last year? You mean you have not unashamedly at this early date caved in to the strong woo of sleeping through the rest of the year with eyes open yet?

Then, you’re up for the road, maybe. If so, let us to the maps. Many people make resolutions this time of year, but we are going to do something a wee bit different. We are going to aim our intention. Hi ho! To the open road we go!

The merriest of discoveries to you in this the season of epiphanies.

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