Manifest your Chosen Career/House/Apartment, Part 1 (An exercise for making things happen)

[sabrinamari]

Today you will write out a description of your perfect job (or perfect house/apartment---see below). What would it feel like, look like, smell like? Where would you work? Describe your co-workers, then write out the story of your perfect work day. Tell us about the work that you did on this day: what exactly happened? What did you do? What did you love about it? Did anything about it challenge you? When you finished working for the day, what did you do next? Where did you go? What did you tell your friends/partner(s)/children when you saw them or spoke to them later that night?

Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to write this out as if you were writing a story. For those of you who are Craft or Wiccan, write as if you were writing out a Sabbat circle that included a drawing down. For those of you from other religious traditions, let the story pour out on the page easily, without too much thought. Let whatever wants to come through emerge from from your fingers without stress or judgement. Just let it flow.

Relax and sit down. Play music if you like. Begin writing and don't stop yourself. The important thing is let it pour out of your hands. Keep going when you feel like stopping until you get an initial draft out. Then go back and expand on the sections that call to you most.

For Wiccans: When you get to the exact description of the work you did for that day, channel it just as you channeled the words of the divinity drawn for your Sabbat circle.

For adherents of other paths: let the workday write itself through you. Just get out of the way and let it flow.

When you are finished, know that you don't have to share this, or share all of it. You decide who gets to see it and when.

As soon as you are done, put in a place where you will see it, and read it, often.

If you want, you can pull out the key parts of the story and write them on an index card to carry with you and glance at throughout the day.



Part 2 will be posted in about two weeks.

For those of you looking to move into a place that suits you better: instead of writing a description of your perfect work day, write out a description of your perfect new home. Where is it? What does it look it look like, smell like? Who are your roommates? How much is the rent?

Write a description of how you found it. Where did you go about looking for it? What happened when you met your landlord or the person who showed it to you? What did you love most about it as you walked through it and looked at each of the rooms? How did you know this was the place you were looking for?

What, if anything, is challenging about it?

Once your description is written, follow the instructions above.

More next week.

EDIT: If you really want to move, start culling your possessions immediately. Ever day or two, go through some of your belongings and get rid of what you no longer need. Then start packing. If you want something new, you have to start letting go of what you already have. You have to start making room.

Comments

[shades-of-nyx.livejournal.com]

An LJ post about my dream of what my healthy body feels like will be forthcoming. I will bend my rule about Gods typing and allow my namesake to have input.

Thank you for reminding me of a technique I've been too depressed to use lately.

[puckmls.livejournal.com]

I met a friend of a friend last week who said that every time she wanted to buy a house, it took her THREE YEARS to find the right one. THREE YEARS. That just amazes me. S and I were very clear about what we wanted in a house before we started looking -- what we absolutely needed, did not want, and could tolerate -- so when we saw the house we now live in, we knew that it was the right house. House-hunting took three months, and we moved in three months later. :-D

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

it is much easier to get where you're going when you know which direction to face and have already started walking.

it happened

[tracyandrook.livejournal.com]

It was in Spring Mills. The fellow was asking about $250K. He was nearly ready to retire as a professional in the mortgage industry and he said to us as we toured, " I want to give somebody the chance I wish I had." He was offering it rent-to-own for the same price that we are paying now. "We'll put about $200 a month of the rent towards the total asking." But neither of us is working so we said, thanks, but we just can't.
So sorry, just cause you find the right house doesn't mean you can get it.
Want some of my stuff?
Make some art dates.