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I
turned 65 last July and as with every other "Rite-of-Passage"
date, I went through a few days of being down in the dumps
and feeling old, until I decided to go into what I call my
Attack Mode and "get over it."
When
I turned 30, I started flying.
When
I was 40, I took seminars such as est and Insight, found myself
(this is when my creative personality got a real boost), and
started the process of changing my name from one I found boring
to one a tad wilder.
When
I was 50, I bought a home in Palm Bay, Florida. One of the
places hard hit in the recent hurricanes. Much as I miss Florida
and my friends there, it is easy to be grateful for not being
a mobile-home owner there at this point in time..
When
I was 60, I worked my way back from California to New England
(sort of a reverse Route-66).
Sixty-five
found me already in the depths of feeling sorry for myself.
Had lost my last job as the dot-com bubble burst and then
with 9-11, I had not been able to find work in my field. So,
I took poor me to church and did a lot of volunteering: Ran
both the newsletter and the website for a couple of years.
But
still, despite all my skills, nobody wanted me. Wah! Wah!
Wah.
My
mind ran through all the reasons and tried to fix me. Learn
this; Do that; Rewrite my resume; Do more job searches. You
know the drill.
Finally
with out of the Lavish Abundance course, I realized that I
have everything I need to be happy right
now: Good Friends; A Loving Family; A Roof over My Head. I
am abundant. Ok not rich in the conventional sense, but thanks
to our wonderful country I'm receiving Social Security and
doing okay. And whether anyone outside wants to hire me or
not, I have great skills, the knowledge of a lifetime, and
the internet through which to express them.
So,
I started recreating my website (which started out as a class
project in 1997) and grew and grew and grew. No definition,
but lots of growth. I decided to turn it into a business and
went to SCORE (Senior Retired Executives who assist others
in getting started). The looked at my semirevised site and
said "We have not idea what you are trying to do here."
Oops.
So
they sent me off to write a business plan (I thought I didn't
need one because I didn't want to borrow money) and create
a site map. What a concept! They made me figure out what I
wanted to do and how I was going to do it.
I've
written a book on goal setting, resume writing, and interviewing.
Wrote it in '84 and the 2004 version is almost ready to be
PDF'd and sold as an ebook.
Setting
a goal and defining the steps is the road to success in any
endeavor.
Here
I was giving that advice to others and not doing it myself
(As my Mom used to say "Do as I say, not as I do.")
I can remember my brother when I was complaining about not
being able to find a job asking me:"Have you read your
book?" "What book is that, Mikie?" "The
book you wrote?"
Oh.
It
is so difficult to step outside yourself and see things as
they really are.
Now
I go to others for their objectivity.
Oh,
did I mention. Friday morning while I'm in the throes of birthing
this website (and it has taken most of my waking life for
the past few weeks), I get a phone call out of the blue. From
a resume I posted on Monster several months ago. Without even
an phone interview, I have a short term job, starting Monday
at 8:30. My concerns about whether I could do what was required
were conveyed to the hiring manager, who said "with her
skills it'll be a piece of cake."
Wow!
I
met with the representative from ManPower this afternoon and
when I gave him my new business card, he said: "Oh, you
do resumes. I just may be able to send some folks that need
resumes your way.
Abundance
of thought and an attitude of gratitude attract more abundance
and more to be grateful for.
So,
I guess the website is going to get a bit of a break from
me for the next week or so.
And
my budget is going to get a real break! Yippee!
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