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Simply Authentic...Your Soul Voice is Calling: Jumping, Knowing There's a Net

Writer's picture: Kimberly GenlyKimberly Genly

Jumping, Knowing There’s a Net

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision which no one could have dreamed would have come their way. -Johann von Goethe I just quit a great job with good benefits and an ample annual salary. With my other income source I was so close to six figures I could taste it, breaths away. This is not a huge amount of money in the big scheme of things, not even large. It’s not a small amount of money, either. I have lived on less than $18,000 per year, before taxes. There are people all over the world who survive on way less than that. But this is the deal. I had been coming home from my day job and working in my home inspiration room/office space for two to three hours or more, typically two to three evenings a week, for months. I knew where my heart was. And I knew there would come a point when I needed to give up the day job, and all the security (and insurance benefits) that went along with it. It wasn’t easy, because this was a job I actually liked, very different from the last time I resigned. I loved my manager, co-workers, accounts and vendors. But I knew in my heart moving on was the right thing to do to honor my inner nature. Every time I got scared, I remembered three things, which I will share next time. You have your “three things”, too, if you want to make a change. Putting them in place will be one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself. We’d all like a guarantee before making a decision or taking a risk, but the irony is that taking the risk is what opens us to our fate. It’s like wanting to know what things will taste like before putting them in your mouth. It just can’t be figured out that way. I always seem to be relearning that real commitment comes before I know where anything is going. That’s what listening to your heart is all about. –Mark Nepo, THE BOOK OF AWAKENING Authentically Yours, Laura

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