Last Sunday night, after speaking at a church, a lady approached me with her question. She was obviously very discouraged with low self-esteem, poor eye contact and overall weak personal presentation. But her question was – “Why should I keep trying when God keeps closing the door on my calling?” Wow – now there’s a question designed to stump even a theologian – which I am not. If God “calls” us to something, wouldn’t He open the doors to make that happen? Is this like asking if God can make a rock so big He can’t move it?
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If it ain’t broke, break it….
IF IT AIN’T BROKE, BREAK IT!
While this phrase may violate your English grammar, it embraces what we know about today’s work environment. Doing things like they were done 20 years ago is very dangerous. Just yesterday as I was listening to the March 2012 Success CD the speaker mentioned that we used to say if you keep doing what you’ve always done, you’ll continue to get the results you’ve always gotten. But that’s no longer true. If you continue doing what you’ve always done – or even what you were doing last year – you’re falling more and more behind every day.
Here are some recent quotes I have heard from clients:
- I’ve wasted many years of my life
- I got too comfortable
- I’m suffering from burnout
- I feel like I’m a box of parts and nothing fits together
- I’ve traded my soul for a paycheck
Need an exit strategy from the wrong job?
This is a guest post by Farnoosh Brock, an active 48Days.net member. Farnoosh left a 12-year career at a Fortune 100 company for her pursuits in writing, coaching, podcasting, blogging and building her company. She talks about smart habits for rich living with a focus on helping people create a smart exit strategy out of the wrong job to their true path. She can be found at Prolific Living and if you register quickly you can still get in her next session on How to Create your Smart Exit Blueprint. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here.
How to create a smart exit strategy out of the wrong job
I often get asked not why I left my lucrative comfortable corporate job after 12 years with the company but how. This immediately tells me two things.
Are you releasing “the voice of God?”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart would have had a birthday this week. He was born on January 27th, 1756. By the age of three, he was picking out chords on the family piano. Mozart’s father was an accomplished composer himself but pretty much gave up teaching little Wolfgang by the time he hit five years old. The little guy resisted formal training and just seemed to have an innate connection to the music that went beyond traditional learning.
In fact, his ease of creating musical works gained him the scorn of his contemporaries. While fictionalized, the 
movie Amadeus reveals the jealous and angry feelings of Antonio Salieri, another composer in Vienna, Austria at the time:
Rubik’s Cube – just move on with your life!
This is a guest post by Suzanne S. Johnson. She is the author of Forty Lives. You can read her blog and learn more about Forty Lives at http://fortylives.com. You can also follow her on Twitter. If you’d like to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here.
I never solved the Rubik’s Cube. Only my ego kept me trying after many failed attempts. Some of my efforts 
were slow and deliberate – surely a methodical approach would yield results. Others were fast and furious as I hoped for luck to intervene and organize the colors for me. I refused to resort to reading hints, getting anyone to help me, or – heaven forbid – removing the stickers and placing them on the cube in order (as a friend of mine did). I wanted to solve it myself, with no help from anyone else. But I couldn’t.
03/08/12 | Workshop
The Sanctuary, Franklin, TN
The Sanctuary, Franklin, TN
