“When you work you fulfill a part of earth’s furthest dream assigned to you when that dream was born, and in keeping with labour you are in truth loving life. And to love life through labour is to be intimate with life’s inmost secret. And what is it to work with love? Is it to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth, it is to build a house with affection, even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house. It is to sow seeds with tenderness and reap the harvest with joy, even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit. It is to charge all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit, and to know that all the blessed dead are standing about you and watching. “Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms from those who work with joy. For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man’s hunger. And if you grudge the crushing of the grapes, your grudge distills a poison in the wine. And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man’s ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night.”
—Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
What allows you to work with love? Love is manifest through work that is an expression of your innermost calling; work that is worthy of your highest effort; work that reflects your deepest caring for other people. It is your absolute right and privilege to experience work as the blessed gift it is meant to be.
To be truly fulfilled in your life, you must do work that you love, work that enlivens you and brings forth your passion. To settle for anything less is to deny yourself one of life’s great treasures. And the truth is that you can create your work the way you want it. With a clear vision, inspiration, and proper understanding of how to go about it, you can create your work exactly the way you want it.
People generally view their work in one of five ways. See where you fit:
FULFILLING
You are already doing work that you experience as love made visible. You have created a work situation that is deeply fulfilling to your mind, heart, spirit, and body. It is challenging you to grow both personally and professionally. You experience deep meaning in how you are using your life. Your work is your play. You are very blessed. Your work vision revolves around how good it can get.
For you, this chapter is an opportunity to push back the limits of what you consider possible in your present work.
UNSATISFYING
You are not doing work that is satisfying. Your work may not be challenging or aligned with your personal values, or give you a sense of meaning. Your working conditions may not be tolerable. Whatever the reason, your present work is not where you want to be.
This chapter will grant you a reprieve from a dissatisfied work life. It will give you an opportunity to envision and learn how to create the kind of work you would like.
JUST GETTING BY
You neither like nor dislike your present work. You go to work each day, and although there’s nothing offensive about your work, it doesn’t excite you and engage your passion. Perhaps you’ve fallen into a rut and are bored or burned out. Perhaps you don’t face many challenges at work.
Sometimes by making certain subtle but strategic shifts in your thinking, you can fall back in love with your work. You can create a work situation that reengages your passion. In this chapter, we will look with you for those leverage points that can elevate the quality of your work experience.
A STEPPING-STONE
You do work that you know is not your final destination, but is a stepping-stone toward it. Work is providing you with training and experience in a field you will either stay in or which can be adapted to another similar field. You are learning practical skills and your work is basically fulfilling. You still face a learning curve.
You will have an opportunity in this chapter to make sure this step is still relevant, to sharpen your vision of where your path will ultimately lead, and to make sure you are getting the most out of your present situation.
TRANSITION
You are between jobs and wide open to what’s next. You may be searching for a new career in a field in which you have no experience or you may want to continue in your current field of work. Perhaps you need time to just be before you get back into work, or perhaps you’re actively searching for your next job.
You are in an excellent position to start with a clean slate. You will be able to clarify your vision and make sure your next work experience is all that you want it to be.
Creating Your Ideal Vision for Work
For your work to be love made visible, you need to love your work. The purpose of this next exercise is to create a vision for your work that represents what you would most love to do. Your vision may be a more fulfilling version of what you’re already doing or it may be very different from your current work experience.
If you could create the work you wanted, what would it look like? If all your talents, gifts, imagination, creativity, and uniqueness were completely engaged, what would your work look like? If your mind, heart, body, and spirit were totally integrated, and this integration were fully expressed in your work, what would it look like? If your highest personal and social values were represented by your work, what would it look like? If who you are at the deepest level formed the core of your work, what would that work be? If someone gave you permission to do any kind of work on earth, regardless of prior training or experience, what would you choose?
We can have our work be all that we can envision. But first we need a vision. With a clear vision, a firm commitment, and the knowledge to bring it about, we embark on an odyssey to discover our full potential. This potential not only nourishes your soul, it nourishes your body. Michael Phillips, developer of MasterCard and author of The Seven Laws of Money, says:
The hardest thing to convince people of is a fact that only the very rich know. The way to make money is to do exactly what you want to do and do it exactly the way you want to do it. True, you have to make adjustments to marketplace realities as you go along, but the principal way to achieve wealth is to hew as closely as possible to your own inner vision. Only your own idea can fuel you with the energy and passion to continue during the inevitable early discouragements.
During this exercise, give yourself permission to let go of your previous expectations, your past experience, and your past training, and allow your heart and passion to speak to you. The key is not to let the past weigh you down as your vision takes flight. You can pick up your reasonableness, skills, and past experience again at the other end of this visioning exercise. In all likelihood you will build on them.
EXERCISE | YOUR IDEAL WORK VISION
Allow approximately twenty minutes to do this exercise. You will need your journal and colored pens, colored pencils, or drawing materials to draw images. Space has been left in case you don’t have your journal. Find a quiet place where you will be undisturbed. Sit in a comfortable chair and put on some quiet, relaxing music.
This guided visualization is divided into nine questions. After each question, close your eyes so you can more easily connect with your imagination and creativity. When you’re ready, with soft eyes, record your response in your journal or in this book.
Take several deep breaths and allow yourself to connect with your visionary self. When you’re ready, go to the first question.
1. In your highest vision for your work, what does your environment look like? Are you indoors or outdoors? Are you in an office, your home, or somewhere else? What are the aesthetics and feeling of your environment? If you’re indoors, what do you see when you look out the window?
2. In your highest vision for work, what must you be doing to make your heart sing? Describe this at the most essential level and then flesh it out in more detail.
3. In your highest vision for your work, what values do you operate by?
4. In your highest vision for your work, what talents, gifts, life experiences and qualities of your being are you expressing so that all of you is fully engaged?
5. In your highest vision for your work, how is it structured? Are you working on your own or with others? Are you managing others? Are you traveling? How many hours a day, or days a week, or weeks a year do you work? Do you own your own business or do you work for someone else?
6. In your highest vision for your work, what challenges do you have that allow you to grow and stretch?
7. In your highest vision, how are you being acknowledged for your effort so that you feel fully valued and appreciated?
8. In your highest vision for your work, describe the effect your presence has on the people you work with.
9. Add anything you need to round out and complete your highest vision of how you would like your work to be.
Take a few moments to immerse yourself in the totality of the vision you have just created. How does it feel to experience your highest vision for your work? Allow this feeling into your body. Let it gently into your heart. Experience this feeling in your mind. Let it permeate your spirit. Allow yourself to fully own and accept your vision as something that is available to you.
After this exercise, people generally feel quite excited. You may have discovered a whole new way to express yourself in your work and life in general. Or you may have confirmed that you’re already doing what you love and your only task is to tune up your vision. Some people envision something they can start working on tomorrow; for others it will take some time. Perhaps you need more training or experience, or time to reflect on what you discovered. You can take as much time as you need. You now have a blueprint of what you want to build, and you can move as quickly or as slowly as you desire. You can determine the right pace for you.
A professor who did this exercise in the Empowerment Workshop wrote to us later with his story:
This experience opened up my intuitive sense of the world that has been so constrained in the academic world. My academic success has depended on linear thinking, and I believe I am very good at it. But I was afraid to guide it with my other dimensions, so I limited my insights, often not connecting with my sensing and intuition.
Bringing the two together had the effect of—well, it feels like the two halves of my brain had been trying to reach each other, and the barriers were finally blown apart.
The effect of this was to enable me to make connections between the many disparate areas of research and thinking that I have immersed myself in for years. I am an integrative thinker and had put many pieces of the puzzle together before. But the sections never joined. After the workshop, they began to fly together as if magnetized—I could suddenly see the big picture. At this point I believe I am in a position to write a significant work on organizational and individual change.
One woman did not find a specific task, but learned what the feeling would be like in her ideal workplace:
I asked myself the question, “Who am I working with in my ideal workplace?” and the answer I got was “My parents.” Looking around, I saw all kinds of other people working there, too. But I just got this feeling that went through me that this was my special place, that this was right. It was like electricity.
I don’t have a confident answer to the question of what I am going to go out and do, and yet, more and more images are coming to me of what my ideal work could be like. I’m just putting together the pieces, starting with what I know I want. For instance, I have so much love to give, and knowledge of the truth that life is easy and fun, that we can have it all. I know I can turn people on just by who I am in my work. In my ideal work environment I could perceive the state of the people around me. When I would reach out to them, they turned from being really sad to being really happy, I’d like to do that on the subway or on a bus, to see how many people I can make smile.
I’m less worried now about the form. I kept wondering what the form of my work would be, but for now I’m just concentrating on giving who I am.
Making Your Vision Real in the World
When we glimpse our innermost vision of how we want to express ourselves on this planet, we release our life energy. Our passion for living surges, making all that power available to bring this vision into form. Whether you are inspired to move slowly or quickly, seven essential elements will help you take your passion and make it happen. In our experience, the people who are successful in making their love visible in their work demonstrate these seven qualities. If you embody these already or commit yourself to cultivating them, it’s just a matter of time before your highest dream for your work becomes a reality.
A SUCCESS PLAN
It seems quite basic, and it is. The captain of an airplane has a flight plan. The captain of a ship has a navigational plan. A business owner has a business plan. A general has a battle plan. Without a plan, these leaders have nothing to aid them in getting to where they want to go or accomplishing their goals. If you are to be successful in manifesting your vision for work, you need a success plan. You’re already halfway there because you have a work vision of what you want to create. Now you need a plan to move your vision forward the next step.
Go back to your answers describing your ideal work vision and decide on an action you can take to move each of the eight parts forward one step. Use the same creativity you used to come up with your vision to begin realizing it.
You don’t need to figure out every detail for how you’ll get to your final destination, but you do need to start moving toward it. As you keep your vision clearly in your mind, you will begin attracting opportunities. The opportunities may appear as people who can help you, courses you can take, or special projects at work that allow you to prove yourself. Knowing where you’re going allows you to respond to these opportunities decisively. Keep this certainty in mind: Your vision is an accomplished fact, and your primary job is to have fun figuring out how you did it.
SELF-CONFIDENCE
People who are successful have confidence in their ability to achieve their goals. They project that confidence and it inspires other people to work with them and trust in their capabilities. Although they may have their moments of doubt, they believe in themselves, their vision, and their ability to accomplish it.
The way we develop self-confidence is by setting goals and accomplishing them. We don’t need to set out to do something major. We just need to stick with it until we achieve success. This builds our confidence and allows us to tackle the next challenge.
To develop confidence that you can achieve your work vision, take your next action step in each of the eight areas of your vision. Each time you accomplish a step, acknowledge yourself and let that success give you confidence to walk further down the path.
INCREASE IN THE WELL-BEING OF OTHERS
People who are successful increase the well-being of others. They take the time to lend a hand or offer an encouraging word. The fascinating thing is that as they help others succeed, they find themselves receiving exactly what they put out. What we put out, we get back.
A man we know ran a successful trade publication for the health-food industry. He was asked for information about the industry by a representative of a large New York magazine publishing company that was considering developing a competitive magazine. He told his future competitor how successful the industry was, who his major clients were, and other strategic business information. He also encouraged his competitor to enter the field, telling him how much it would improve the quality of the industry.
Ironically, he scared away his competitor, who decided that anybody who felt that confident and was that generous would be too formidable a competitor. Ultimately, his would-be competitor became a major supporter of his business.
Wishing others success can work in many ways. It is a pure act that springs from the certainty of abundance. It is a statement that there’s enough—on this planet, in my industry, in my profession. It’s a belief that my wishing you success or helping you achieve it does not limit my success—it will actually contribute to it. Who can you help succeed? Embrace opportunities to be helpful. You will feel good and reap practical rewards in ways you can’t anticipate.
PERSISTENCE
This is the quality of our humanity that refuses to give up. It is a commitment to continue firmly, steadily, and insistently.
The stories of persistent people who ultimately became successful are legend. Edison’s multiple failures before he perfected the lightbulb; the Beatles’ many early rejections before they became internationally famous; Abraham Lincoln’s loss of almost every election in which he ran, yet still winning the presidency. Those who succeed have a large store of persistence.
We have a friend who is in the fund-raising business. Extracting money from people is a challenging profession. To accomplish his goals, he devised a very unusual technique. He had a sheet of paper with several hundred names and five columns next to each name. A day’s work for him was going through his list of names until he reached fifty “no’s.” He also would keep calling an individual until he got five “no’s” from that person. He literally did not take no for an answer. He defined the concept of no as a state of resistance, not the end of the process of interacting with the person. He ultimately was so successful that he became president of the company for which he used to do fund-raising.
If you want to succeed, you need to be willing to accept resistance as a natural part of the process. Most of us don’t have to deal with the amount of resistance our fund-raiser friend encountered. Nonetheless, to accomplish your vision you will have to deal with and overcome many obstacles. The more pioneering and entrepreneurial your vision, the more resistance you will encounter. If you are willing to stay with it, you will accomplish your vision for work. The secret for dealing with resistance is not to focus on the resistance, but to focus on your vision. You will manifest your vision more quickly—and have fun doing it.
INTUITION
We can never have enough information to make a decision based only on the facts. Cultivating and using your intuition—sometimes called your hunch, your gut, or inner guidance—is very important to your success. You need to trust what you feel and act on it.
People who wait for what they are feeling to be proven before they act become historians. If that’s not your calling, you would be wise to develop your intuition as an aid in making decisions. One technique that is helpful in determining how to respond to your intuition is to think about acting on it. Does it expand or contract you? Would taking the action cause you to feel excited and open or fearful and closed? If it expands you, you are opening up to the flow of energy inside yourself and in the universe. If it contracts you, you are closing down to that flow of energy. Either response may be right, depending on the situation. Your intuition might cause you to feel contracted because there is danger ahead or expanded because you have great potential for success ahead. The key is to be attentive to what you’re feeling, then act on it.
POSITIVE PRESENTATION
At long last, some acknowledgment of the superficial things in life! Positive presentation is how well your shoes are polished, the kind of clothes you wear, the neatness of your business letter, the way you speak, and the professionalism of your business card and letterhead. In the action arena, we are judged by appearances. How you choose to present yourself is the first thing someone notices about you—and it tells a lot. It says you care about yourself, and what others think about you. It says you pay attention to detail. It says you conduct yourself in a professional manner. It says you’re capable of communicating your ideas. Often, all that people initially have to go on in deciding whether to give you their business or their confidence is your external presentation.
Charlie couldn’t afford to buy new furniture for the waiting room of his new office. So he filled it with high-quality furniture from his home to give prospective clients the appearance of success. He knew that people wanted to feel secure in knowing that his consulting business was not a fly-by-night operation.
Anne realized that to be promoted to management positions she had to be able to communicate her ideas more clearly. She started taking courses to develop her communication skills.
Look at your vision and consider the points where you interact with others. What can you do to make sure that the presentation of what you do is as positive as can be?
LOVE
To have your work be love made visible, you need to find ways to integrate love—translated as caring and kindness—into your work practices. It won’t be there unless you put it there. Everyone wants love and spends a great deal of energy seeking it out. If you incorporate caring and kindness in your work, not only will you feel happier, but others will seek you out, like a bee drawn to honey. An example of this is a woman who attended our workshop who ran her restaurant with love.
Even though her restaurant was located in a poor section of town and her food was mediocre, she had lots of business. The reason was that she made a point of offering a heartfelt blessing to everyone who ate in her restaurant. She offered her customers more than nourishment for the body; she offered them nourishment for the heart and soul. People were willing to overlook the food because her love for each person who walked into her restaurant was so strong. Eventually, she was so successful that she was able to open a restaurant in a better location and hire a top-notch chef. She then made adding love to the menu her exclusive work.
In your business dealings, don’t you prefer interacting with a person who is caring and kind over a person who is not? Who do you give a larger tip, the person who serves you with a smile or the person who does not?
Along with the external rewards—more people wanting to take advantage of your product or service—you feel good. You end the day knowing that many people feel better because of you. These people reciprocate love and fill you up even more. Look through your work vision and find all the places where you can add that secret ingredient of love to the menu you offer to the world.
With a clear vision, grounded in concrete knowledge about manifesting it, you’re on track. It’s now time to create your affirmation and visualization for your growing edge in work.
To find out what your growing edge is, think back to the ideal work vision you created. Were there any parts of your vision that were blank or seemed difficult? That exercise gave you a positive vision of what you want in your ideal work situation. How might one or more of the seven essential qualities help you in manifesting this vision? Is there anything stopping you from getting there?
To assist you in clarifying your growing edge, we list some common limiting beliefs and turnaround statements below. We’ll also share with you some stories of how others have worked with their growing edge for work. Use this input to create your affirmation and visualization for your work growing edge.
Creating Your Work Affirmation and Visualization
LIMITING BELIEF: It’s not possible for me to do work I really like.
TURNAROUND: Lack of vision and a commitment to it are the only things that can hold me back from doing work that I really enjoy. I create and manifest my work vision.
LIMITING BELIEF: I can never make enough money doing what I really enjoy.
TURNAROUND: The best way to make a lot of money is by doing something I not only enjoy but adore. I create work that expresses my creativity, passion, and full commitment.
LIMITING BELIEF: I love my work, but I’m always getting burned out.
TURNAROUND: I focus the emphasis of the work I do on people’s potential, creativity, and growth. Being around this positive energy continuously reinvigorates me.
LIMITING BELIEF: I just don’t have what it takes to be really successful in my work.
TURNAROUND: I have a vision and a plan for manifesting it. I’m already ahead of the majority of people I work with. Watch out, world!
LIMITING BELIEF: I can’t do meaningful work that also pays well.
TURNAROUND: I use my creativity, ingenuity, and entrepreneurial instincts to create work that is both meaningful and financially rewarding.
LIMITING BELIEF: If I really love my work, I will become preoccupied with it and the rest of my life will suffer.
TURNAROUND: I love my work and the satisfaction it gives me, and I take responsibility for carefully balancing it with the other parts of my life that I also love.
LIMITING BELIEF: I don’t know how to ignite passion for work.
TURNAROUND: I use my creativity to turn what excites my passion into my work.
LIMITING BELIEF: Even though I don’t like my job very much, it pays me a good salary and I’m afraid I won’t be able to do as well somewhere else.
TURNAROUND: I trust in my own creativity and the abundance of the universe to provide me with work that totally fulfills me. I act on this trust.
LIMITING BELIEF: Business is a dog-eat-dog world. I can’t satisfy my humanistic needs in this environment.
TURNAROUND: If I believe that business is a dog-eat-dog world, that’s what I create it to be. I take responsibility for creating a people-oriented, humane business environment.
LIMITING BELIEF: I can’t be loving in a work environment.
TURNAROUND: Business is made up of ordinary human beings who want to give and receive love but who are afraid that it’s against the rules. I take responsibility for initiating communication that is kind and caring and create my work environment as I want it to be.
When Kathleen did this exercise, she held a secretarial job that, in her own words, was “pure drudgery.” She had accepted the classic limiting belief that work is not to be enjoyed but endured. The idea that you could be in love with your work, that work could be love made visible, was completely new territory for Kathleen, and she was intrigued.
During the work vision exercise, she allowed her imagination to soar and left her office job far behind. Her vision made it very clear that she yearned to be a potter. She had repressed this dream for a long time. Kathleen got goose bumps when she considered the possibility of actually fulfilling this dream! She recognized that her growing edge was to make a gentle transition over time from her current job to being a potter. With this in mind, Kathleen crafted this affirmation: “I take the appropriate first steps to fulfill my dream of becoming a potter and support my learning and apprenticeship phase by income from my present job.” In her visualization, Kathleen saw herself selling her pottery at a crafts fair in the country with lots of people buying her pottery and appreciating her talent.
Slightly over a year later, we received a package in the mail from Kathleen with a beautiful, large dish inside and a letter attached. “I have been showing my work at craft shows and people are actually buying my pottery. Who would have ever thought? It’s with great pride, joy, and gratitude that I send you this plate and ask you to be joyful with me!”
Gabrielle was quite dissatisfied with her job, and knew she needed to make some changes. We’ll let her tell the story.
Work was a major issue for me when I took the Empowerment Workshop. I was in a management job that was frustrating, futile, and assaulted my values and integrity daily. I needed an entirely new career, and I envisioned one for myself during the exercise on ideal work. I created this affirmation and visualization: “The full power of my vision for work manifests within one year.” In my visualization, I saw and felt myself in the ideal vision I’d created.
About one and a half years later I was reviewing my work affirmation and visualization and realized that my successful new career was exactly how I had pictured it during the work visioning exercise. I was shocked by how exactly and completely I had manifested my vision. Every element—each of the nine steps—I had described in my vision was contained in my new career! I had included in my initial vision flexible hours, travel, the type of groups who would be my clients, the pace and place of work, the teaching, guiding, advising, facilitating, growing components of the training and consulting career that I now enjoy!
Gabrielle knew what she wanted, had the courage to go for it, and created it all.
Susi was a young dynamo. When we met her, she was in a job she knew was a stepping-stone. She clearly realized that her current job as assistant director of communications for a large sports-marketing company could give her the experience to one day start her own sports-marketing public relations company.
But after doing the work vision exercise, she realized that she had stopped growing in her job. She wasn’t learning or being challenged. She wasn’t getting the training she wanted. She was being lulled into complacency.
Susi decided to take the steps necessary to make her present job more challenging. She created this affirmation: “I increase my level of responsibility so that I have greater challenge and the opportunity to develop new skills.” In her visualization she saw herself talking to her boss and proposing a broadened scope of work.
In a subsequent phone conversation with Susi, we learned that she went to her boss and told her what she needed to grow professionally. Her boss’ response was to promote Susi to director of communications and redefine her own role, now that Susi would be taking on a lot of the boss’ old responsibilities. Susi not only empowered herself to get what she wanted, she also empowered her boss to let go of areas of responsibility she didn’t need to hold on to anymore. She also rewarded Susi with an increase in salary commensurate with her increased responsibilities. Susi is charged up again and on her way.
Kevin had a position as an education administrator. He loved his job and felt engaged and challenged by it. When he came to the work part of the empowerment journey, Kevin was sure it would just be a matter of fine-tuning a bit. Little did he know what was around the corner in his growth process!
Kevin had been implementing very innovative projects within the guidance and counseling departments of his school district. His projects were highly effective and well regarded, but in his vision of the highest possibility for his work Kevin found himself changing the role of guidance counselors throughout his entire state.
He visualized boldly empowering guidance counselors throughout the public school system to teach their students the qualities of honesty, reliability, teamwork, and learning how to learn. Further in his vision, he challenged guidance counselors to learn to live what they hoped to teach and to set an example for healthy collaboration between students, teachers, and administrators. His vision included a new, positive curriculum to replace the old, negative one and ways to best implement this. Kevin was startled by the power of his vision. He felt as though he had no choice but to do everything he could to make this vision a reality.
We were thrilled to hear from Kevin several months following the workshop:
Those of us working with my project have a vision of guidance counselors being very much in a role that empowers students, teachers, and other counselors. We feel it is time to help counselors get out of their offices and away from the tons of paperwork that seem to have become their lot. Two weeks ago we went to our State Board of Education and requested that they budget $250,000 each year for the next five years to enable us to expand the project to include all schools in the state. They agreed, not only unanimously, but more importantly, enthusiastically. The thing that stirs them so is the concept of an empowerment curriculum. Although we call it a “guidance curriculum,” we talk about it in empowerment terms.
Kevin decided to let his spirit soar during the ideal work vision and within three months had manifested something he had never dreamed about before he did the visioning exercise. Though he was fully content with his work, he dared to expand his vision and now he’s living his dream.
Jack was a senior bank executive who had climbed up the corporate ladder and was now president of a regional bank that was doing quite well financially. He came into the Empowerment Workshop feeling uninspired about his work. He had no new challenges and his deeper values had no place for expression within his present work environment. He was starting to think about early retirement until he did the work vision exercise.
He came out of the work section of the workshop with bolts of energy. He envisioned his bank as a culture that empowered its employees; where they were encouraged to grow and realize more of their potential; where they felt safe fully expressing their concerns; where love, caring, and kindness were acceptable and encouraged in the work environment; where people were motivated to release their creativity; where greater productivity and personal fulfillment flourished as a result. He created this affirmation: “I create an empowered work culture in my bank.” In his visualization, he saw the people for whom he was responsible as happy, fulfilled, and productive.
One-and-a-half years later, he had created a task force to develop an organizational culture that supported the bank’s employees in realizing their potential. He invited us to do an organizational empowerment training to launch this new program. Jack renewed his vision and aimed as high as possible. He knows that transforming a conservative organizational culture is not easy, but he’s thriving on the challenge and reinvigorated in his work.
EXERCISE | WORK AFFIRMATION AND VISUALIZATION
Hearing how other people went for their dreams and manifested them may inspire you to go for yours. Go back and review the ideal work vision exercise and the issues you found that make up your growing edge. Synthesize what you have learned. Then, in your journal or the space below, write down your own affirmation and visualization that addresses your growing edge for work.