Synchronicity has led me to my last two jobs. In these uncertain times, with real unemployment around 20% (and my own life impacted time and again by job losses for myself and the people around me) I thought it might be a good idea to share some stories of what happens when you let synchronicity lead you.
The first time happened when I was living in Chicago and my daughter’s father had moved to San Francisco for a job opportunity. It was difficult for them to be apart and he kept saying I should come to California, that I would love there. At the same time, my own internal guidance system was telling me that I needed to be in California for some other reason, too. I sensed that being there had something to do with my life path, that my mission to help people shift their awareness about life would somehow manifest in California.
I had no idea about the details of what would happen, but I knew I had gone as far as I could go in Chicago. I was living timid there, selling my soul for the “security” of a corporate job, all the while knowing my true calling wasn’t about selling telecommunications equipment, it was about helping people see deeper into their own lives. I was torn because I knew one truth about myself but was living another.
I went out for a walk one night and looked up and said, “Okay, God, you want me to be in California, I want to be in California. I am ready to pack up and move. Just find me a job and I’ll go.”
The next day, I went into work… and got laid off.
At first I was shocked and angry. I was a top performer, I had played the game, how could this happen to me? But of course I was getting booted out, God had to get me on the right track. It took me about a half hour to realize what was really going on from a higher point of view. And about a half hour and one second to know I was moving to California!
I felt like I was flying on a high wire with an invisible net. The layoff happened on a Wednesday. The next Sunday, I attended a neighborhood block party, told some neighbors of my plans, and that very night a friend of one of the neighbors called to say she was interested in buying my house. I hadn’t even listed it yet! She came by the next Wednesday, only a week after the layoff, and made me an offer on the spot.
Ok, I was really supposed to get out of there. I felt as if my spirit guides were some kind of cosmic SWAT team, dropping in and getting me the heck out of there, rescuing me, and setting me free to perform my life’s mission. I had more energy to pack up everything and move to California than I did to stay put and live the same old way. It was because I was no longer lying about myself. I was being honest and true and living in a way my heart had been yearning for, to follow the flow of my life as I was guided.
The funny thing about being out of a job was that rather than feeling limited, I felt as if the whole world was open to me. Now that I didn’t have an income, I saw anything that made any money as an opportunity. Things I would have never considered before were now options to explore. Anything was up from where I was, and I could follow the path of my heart rather than the rut of the routine. I was free to pursue my own interests, my own soul passions.
My daughter and I drove to California in my little green Honda Civic on one of those epic, once-in-a-lifetime adventures. We were wild and free, on the road to our new lives. California, here we come!
A few years earlier, I had joined the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) as a member (www.noetic.org). I received a brochure when they moved to the new 200-acre campus and as I looked at the photo of the rolling hills of IONS, it just popped into my head “I’m going to work there someday.” I was also told by a psychic that I would be working for a place on top of a big hill that has to do with science and spirituality.
After we arrived to California and I realized our new home was only a half hour away from IONS, I decided to pay a visit partly to see the campus, partly to update my membership records, but really to drop off my resume and to see what would happen.
I got the job offer 2 weeks later …
That was 8 years ago and everyday as I look out my window to see those rolling hills, I smile inside and am so happy to be up on that big hill working on science and spirituality and living the life I was born to live.
