On the eve of Thanksgiving Day, I am ready to write about the real reason why I am doing this. First, let me explain what “this” is.
I have decided to resign my management position at a reputable university after being there for eight years and pursue a writing career. I have decided to share the last 60 days before resignation day with all who would find this blog. I am not talking about this blog at work and no one has come to me saying they have found it. On most days, I have no idea what I am going to write about even minutes before I sit in front of my computer. My intent is to show a play by play real life journey of dream fulfillment and manifestation.
So is this all about starting a writing career and selling millions of books? Well, that would be nice but that is not the real reason I am doing this.
46 years and three days ago, the country experienced a near fatal blow to its dream when President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated in Texas. After the death of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy five years later, millions of Americans feared that civil rights for all citizens would never become a reality. Can the fight continue without them?
100 years prior, another president, Abraham Lincoln was also assassinated and with it, the hopes and aspirations of many who had witnessed the birth of the Emancipation Proclamation. Fear captivated the hearts and mind of the populace. Can the tattered Union be saved?
We now find ourselves as a nation in a similar paralysis. The threat of a global economic meltdown has led many to postpone their dreams indefinitely. How many times did we hear the words during the past year, “the worst since the Great Depression, since the Great Depression, the Great Depression, Depression”. There are 2,600,000 pages with this term “The worst since the Great Depression” in Google’s search engine. We are afraid of losing our house, our jobs, or of going on vacation overseas. The “what ifs” in our lives are all consuming and we feel defeated. We all know someone who is in a job they hate and are watching the days tick by. The family does not get much attention because hating your job causes energy depletion and stress build up. So everything suffers and we are not living.
So what can we do about it? Gandhi said “Be the change you wish to see in the world”. Well, that is what I am attempting to do. I want to show everyone that it is possible to live a life full of possibilities than one full of fear. No matter how dire circumstances seem, there are forces at work in the universe that are working overtime to bring balance into your life.
It is obvious from the past 35 entries, that there is nothing easy about this process. I have had to face my greatest doubts and fears, but I have done so with an eye towards examples of faith and love. I have no choice but to begin to swim against this strong current. My vision is one in which everyone is living a life full of passion and complete unity between their gifts and life purpose. I believe we are all on this earth to further its evolution. The only power working against this goal is fear.
I also believe that Roosevelt had it right when he said “the only thing you have to fear is fear itself”. It is the greatest of all illusions. Since we do not know how much time we have left on this planet, my wish is that everyone makes the commitment to not let fear drive their actions. This commitment requires that we face our perceptions of fear with kindness and non-judgment, learn from them and decide to act out of our true authentic power.
Just like the thirteen colonies overcame their mathematically certain fate of defeat at the hands of the British by acting in spite of fear to an improbable victory, so too I would like no less than the same commitment: to believe in spite of our economic indicators and move to that the new State, seek that fulfilling career, write that memoir, go for that PhD, launch that website, and marry that girl! Yes, I have reached the point of no return. I will quit my job on December 21, 2009 (three years to the day before the end of the Mayan Calendar, the most fear-injected date in recorded history, mere coincidence) and launch my writing career.
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