Last Saturday, I hosted and presented to a group of 15 job seekers in Littleton, CO. Each time I host an event, I meet with folks who are broken, sad, angry, confused, stuck, negative, hopeless. Most are active, eager, insatiably curious, energized, out spoken, creative, thoughtful, and helpful. Every once in a while, an audience member jumps into my life then shares his/her story, wisdom, faith, and ideas which impact my life, business and perspective. Thank You Diana!
A note from Diana (attendee of job seeker networking event hosted 10/22/11 at Greenwood Community Church):
"Sarah,
Thank you so much for the time you took to speak to all of us and the
great handouts and objective ideas. Your part of the information
helped me see how I can "tweak" a few things.
My mirror is covered with positives. Little notes all over.
Sometimes it feels like dire straits with my consulting work and also
at times with my freelance writing sideline. Writing down is truly a
way to start to bring about what we desire. At least a few things
have actually transpired for me that way. This does not mean we are
not going to encounter some dark tunnels and at the other side be met
with a cliff.
We just have to know how to shut out the annoyances and "clutter" that
sounds around us and keep the main focus and belief on the positives
we can accomplish in steps toward the goal every day. I meditate in
the morning for at least a few minutes and in the evening and
visualize the positive outcome. Find to surround myself with positive
people with like ideas also generates good energy and like does indeed
attract like. No matter how challenging -- we cannot fall prey to the
quicksand.
I've had several items in the pipeline lately. Some are stuck and
some look like they are going through and then hit budget glitches.
Went to the seminar for ideas on how to move things along and get some
response rather than the people hiding out in e-mail and voice mail.
Last evening, one company sent me some supplemental information to
fill out. Did not know it as I'd shut my e-mail down the night
before. Decided to go to the seminar -- what was in my box when I
returned home? They'd been stalling on budget. So sent the
supplement in today.
You get what you think about most of the time -- and keeping the
energy level up is so important -- even when things look dark -- the
rainbow shows brighter colors after the storms when the sun emerges!
Really like your philosophy. Think we have to tap in to a higher
level of thinking. I've studied some on meditation and our
perceptions are not reality -- we get into a thinking process of what
if but what if everything goes positive just as we hoped and we are
actually learning life lessons while we delay -- and instant
gratification is something I've also thought about -- everyone else
expects us to have things happen instantly and then we start to expect
things to be instant too -- but sometimes we go through what seems
difficulties to grow to reach our next level.
Found on sale a bottle of mustard seeds last year at Sunflower Market
for 50 cents and got them. When I feel like I cannot cope with
anything else that stalls progress or like everything is about to
careen off a cliff, I take out a mustard seed and ask if I have that
much faith. And yes, I have to answer -- it is small and so that much
I can muster. And the mustard seed grows into a huge plant!
So your analogies and handouts today were great. I've been doing most
of what you advised but found some real value in your objective
perspectives and the action orientation..
Thank you so much for giving of your time to help us get unstuck and
deliver some brilliant ideas to lead us to solutions whether we seek
jobs or clients -- we are all interacting and provide some sort of
service to people.
Grateful to you!
Diana"