But What Now?

Everything I read about creating a future I desire and creating prosperity tells me I need to visualize specifically what I want. I stumble here because I don’t usually have something specific in mind other than no longer being at my current job. I talked with my sweetie about this tonight at dinner over pizza. She’s really amazing sometimes and tonight was one of those times.

Visualize possibilities, she said. Visualize being (with a capital B) in a non-toxic environment. Those are positive thoughts, rather than the usual negative thought of ‘not wanting to be there anymore,’ which, unfortunately permeates too many of my waking thoughts.

This may seem a little off-topic for a retirement blog, but I hope it’s helpful to those who aren’t quite there yet like myself. Those of us who are surviving the final months of employment for a small pension or health insurance or whatever. We have our reasons. All we have to do is stay the course. Staying the course can feel like an endurance test some days.

Today when I had time I watched a couple of videos from YouTube either created by the makers of The Secret or created by others with their own unique take on the Law of Attraction. I watched The Secret when it first came out, the version with Esther Hicks, in fact, and was really taken by the concept of Law of Attraction and creating my own reality. I read a few books on these subjects, in fact I have a number of excellent books on my bookshelf now. Then I put them down and forgot about it. My current reality is about a job I dislike and feel somewhat trapped in for the next year.

So, watching these videos was very cool. They brought me back to that place of believing I can be, do or have anything I desire as long as I am clear about what it is I want. Which brings me back to my dilemma earlier, which is how do I visualize the negative thought of leaving my job? To help myself focus, I did a mindmap for 2008. My mindmap includes election year (finally), blogging, learning new skills, traveling, networking, making new friends, prosperity, positive vibrations, fitness, being in excellent health, loving and finally, having the opportunity to detoxify once I leave this job and enter my own personal retirement.

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