Countdown to The Superman Effect- 45 days

Something very exciting is happening to me at work. For the first time in eight years, I feel valued and effortlessly moving through the day. There is so much political maneuvering in a university and the wheels move oh so slowly, yet I sense I am on top of things and having a positive impact in the lives of those around me. Creative ideas are flowing, my ability to communicate with my superiors and subordinates feels easy and stress-free and I am accomplishing so much with very little time.

So what has shifted? Clearly it’s all perception. In many ways, I have let go of working at the university and have my mind already living out of a new reality. It’s as if there are two-parallel universes: In one, I am frustrated and stuck in a box at the university, banging my head against academic walls, trying to rally the troops around the well and convince them all to take a drink. I’m complaining about every ill thought out decision and either thinking or speaking about needing to get out. In another, I am freely writing from the heart and my attitude is carefree no matter where I am. I experience the dramatic opening of doors where there were none as I follow my bliss. In this universe, I am fearless and see only limitless opportunities.

I perceive my circumstances to be only as powerful and immovable as the meaning I attach to them. If I believe that the universes I live in originate in my head and that I freely choose to make more real the one that is infinitely expansive, then suddenly opportunities appear out of nowhere to support this new materialization. Perhaps destiny can indeed coexist with free will.

In the past week, I have been presented with new teaching opportunities from a good friend and from Big Brothers Big Sisters. These opportunities are the first of many doors to open in a pathway towards supplementing my writing after I leave the university. I did not seek them out. That takes too much effort right now. I just trusted that the “how” will present itself if I could crystallize the “why”.

These are exciting times. I am not blind to the news dedicated to telling us what is real, but I choose to live from a place of freedom than from fear. I hope that you join me in taking a break from “Meet the Press” (AKA Me Depressed) and focus on the great things in your life. You are on this journey with me in real time. I don’t know any more than you do what my story is going to look like on December 21st. I do know that whatever the outcome, I was the creator.

“And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind”- Romans 12:2