Has the Worst or the Best Happened?
Well, it’s happened. That which so many American households fear: job loss. The main bread winner has lost his job.
So what does it mean? And why don’t I feel more panicky?
For one thing, it seems we’re not alone in this situation. Sadly, thousands, no millions, of other Americans are in the same situation or have recently been in the same situation. Clearly, we are resonating our fears, thoughts, beliefs in a pattern powerful enough to be called a mass event.
But each of us gets to say what it means in our experience.
For me, I don’t do well with depressing scenarios. I get very bored with them very quickly. So I choose to see this as opportunity. Not as an opportunity to become employed by some bigger, better paying corporation, but an opportunity to live by values that are true to ourselves. Values that allow us to experience freedom instead of being a slave to the corporate culture.
We are blessed in having created a simple life for ourselves. A life that not only fills us with satisfaction, but that also sustains our physical bodies while saving us money and allowing us to share our lives and abundance with others.
Not so very long ago, the opportunity I would have seen in this situation would have been framed by my entrepreneurial mindset. I would have viewed it as an opportunity to invest in ourselves, to create a business, to invest in our ambitions to become a more “successful” version of ourselves than the corporate job could provide. Now I know that kind of work isn’t necessary for the focus we crave. And I know that kind of work isn’t necessary to sustain our needs.
It will require creativity and focus to retain the elements of our current lifestyle that is important to us. As we release all that has lost importance to us, we free up time and energy to use as we now prefer.
I cannot be afraid. Although I expected to be. There will likely be challenges. But somehow it seems natural to me to view this situation as an opportunity, a new adventure. And so as I move forward, I am hopeful, expectant of new opportunities, new things to learn and discover, and I joyfully and with enormous gratitude accept this life of more abundance and freedom.
