Hello everybody and everyspirit and everymind

I am relatively new to SOGR, into the PG course at LL 9 and just thought I would like to introduce myself and tell my story up til now, so that when I succeed in the way I expect from this course and people ask me where I started I can refer them to this thread.

I am 39 years old and had a very colourful life up til now.

After school I first went to university and studied languages (english and italian). After about 5 years, shortly before the final examinations, I quit those studies because I couldn't imagine anymore to work as a translator. I also had my first child at that time.

Then I thought I would like to have my own restaurant, since I always loved cooking, and so I began an apprenticeship to become a cook. I finished that (in the meantime I also got my second child and got married) and worked several years as a chef. But I noticed that I didn't like the working times (I had to work mostly when other people had their free time, in the evening and weekends) and so I didn't want to have my own restaurant anymore. At the end I worked as a chef in a kindergarten where there were much better working times.

But one day I stood there in the kitchen, stirring in the pots and thought
"This is not what I want to do for the rest of my life ... I want to go to university again!" At that time I was 29 and had two children, 4 and 6 years old.

That wish was very strong and the same evening I sat down on the couch and thought ... ok, I want to go to university again, but what do I want to study? Since I always had a lot of interests, I decided to ask my intuition.

As soon as I did that, immediately it popped up in my thoughts (or perhaps it was more like a voice): "Study law!"

I was very surprised, because that was not a decision I would have made rationally, and if somebody would have told me that even a few years before that evening, I would have asked that person which strange substance he or she had smoked

But I also knew immediately that that was it and just a few months later I had quit my job at the kindergarten and started studying law at the local university. I still worked at a restaurant as a chef in the evening and on weekends to finance my studies. It was a rather hard time with my children still small and all the studies and my work, but I did it, and I got such good grades that after 2 and a half years I got a scholarship and didn't have to work anymore. At the same time also my private life changed dramatically. I was 33 years old and suddenly found out that I loved women.
I fell in love with a very special woman (who is still my partner today ) and got divorced. I passed the first state examination at the age of 35 and began the legal clerkship (which is 2 years here in Germany and after that you have to pass the second state examination if you want to become a lawyer or a judge). Up til that I always wanted to become a judge, but when I got some insight in the work of a judge during the clerkship I changed my mind. Then I got insight in the work of a lawyer - it was a woman who worked as a lawyer mainly in the field of social law - and I knew that I wanted to do that, too! During my clerkship in that woman's office I learned so much from her, I am soo grateful for that.

After the clerkship I passed the second state examination - that was last year in march. I had planned to work for other lawyers first to get some professional experience, but I didn't find a job. Two months after my examination I found an ad in the internet. There was an office community of 3 lawyers in my town who had just started business and had one free office room left for a fourth lawyer.

I went to have a look - and immediately knew that this was "my office"!
I just could see so clearly me working there. Ah - I forgot to mention, at that time I had been into another spiritual teaching that is very similar to SOGR (basically it's about always looking for a better feeling thought, I am still a huge fan of it) for over a year and I was already pretty good at applying those principles. When I found "my office" I had no idea how this could become true, because over the years I had accumulated a quite hight amount of private debt (31.000 Euro, which is about 39.500 US Dollars). But miracles started to happen and my bank gave me a credit of 38.000 Euros (48.500 USD).

So I could start my own business, and that was so much fun!!!

I have already attracted a lot of clients and I am working mostly in my favourite field, which is social law. I have a lot of clients who live from social security and cannot pay much for my services. But there is a system here in Germany that they have to pay only 10 Euros to me and the rest is paid by the state. So I do already give them more in use value than they give me in cash value

The amount the state pays me is not very high (only a third of the normal fee) but when I am successful I get the normal fee - and I have already been quite successful. I even started making profits 4 months ago.

I have still all those debt (69.000 Euros, equivalent to 88.000 USD) and up til now I still thought "well, with social law you cannot make much profit". Perhaps this is true, perhaps not - but what I really "got" from my second reading of SOGR is, that I don't have to worry about this, the "how" is not my job!

Also I am planning to start a second business soon, which is quite different. I have also been trained shamanic skills during the last two years and I am actually trained as a Psych-K-coach. I also love to sing and believe in the healing power of singing.
So I would like to offer some kind of spiritual coaching with this.

I don't know yet how this goes together with my office as a lawyer, but already now I have noticed that I attract a lot of spiritual interested clients and I know that there will be a way!

So that is my story up til now and I want to thank everybody (and spirit and mind) who followed me reading so far.

Have a great day!!!

Well, so nice to meet you Rainbowspirit! What an exciting life you have had up til now!

I can relate to having many interests over the years and this used to drive my ex just simply crazy, lol! But, like you, I followed them to where they went and then moved on, again.

I so look forward to more of your success stories and welcome aboard!

Namaste!

Thank you Linda

Yes, life is so much more exciting when you do different things, isn't it?
It can drive other people crazy, like your boyfriend, because then you are not very "predictable"

I am already curious where I will be in ten years - hmmm, when I was younger I always said that I will write my first book when I am 50, so who knows!

Hi rainbowspirit,
Wow, what a great story and what an interesting life you have led.

What I liked about your story was how you went with your feelings and instinct and you got what you want and are doing what you want to do. That's wonderful!

Hi rainbowspirit

I also have had a lot of career changes and have done a lot of study in different courses. I expect there are people in my circle who think that I am just a perennial student or just really indecisive or not very committed.

I used to worry about how people perceived my many changes in direction and even think that people who knew what they wanted to do were better than me. One day I said that to someone and she replied that, "you're on a different journey to those people so you are reading signposts that they can't see". I often reflect on that comment when I have doubts.

Also, more recently I seem to be attracting people who are more likely to comment something along the lines of, "Wow, what I great background for what you are doing now."

So, thank you for reminding me that our journeys are unique even when they appear similar and about the importance of honouring our intuition and our spirit.

Barbara

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Hi rainbowspirit

I also have had a lot of career changes and have done a lot of study in different courses. I expect there are people in my circle who think that I am just a perennial student or just really indecisive or not very committed.

I used to worry about how people perceived my many changes in direction and even think that people who knew what they wanted to do were better than me. One day I said that to someone and she replied that, "you're on a different journey to those people so you are reading signposts that they can't see". I often reflect on that comment when I have doubts.

Also, more recently I seem to be attracting people who are more likely to comment something along the lines of, "Wow, what I great background for what you are doing now."

So, thank you for reminding me that our journeys are unique even when they appear similar and about the importance of honouring our intuition and our spirit.

Barbara

Thanks Barbara. That was very affirming for me to read. I am in a great state of flux these days, and over the past few years. I've often put myself down for being so `changeable' and `indecisive'. It's a good feeling to put it in a positive light, and see it all as a journey that in the ends contributes to all that I am and all that I have to offer - for you too I'm sure.

Jayne

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I am in a great state of flux these days, and over the past few years. I've often put myself down for being so `changeable' and `indecisive'. It's a good feeling to put it in a positive light, and see it all as a journey that in the ends contributes to all that I am and all that I have to offer - for you too I'm sure.

Oh, I've had LOADS of different directions in my life -- jobs, businesses, projects. When I was little I'd start something -- learning to play an instrument or some other skill -- and then after a while I'd be ready to switch to something else.

My parents were great and gave me all the opportunities I wanted, but it was a bit exasperating to my mom sometimes. I remember her saying, "I don't understand. Every time you get really good at something you stop doing it and start something else!"

And I also remember thinking, well, of course. Once I'm good at it, the challenge is over and I'm ready for a new one. Makes perfect sense to me!

So for a while, as a young adult, I wondered what was "wrong" with me, as I had NO interest in "building a career" as many of my peers were doing. It looked so boring to me! I just kept switching from one thing to another and enjoying them all -- except for that little niggling thought that I probably "should" be doing what they were doing.

Then one day I thought of some of the people from history I admire the most and realized that quite a lot of them had also done MANY different things in their lives. For just one example, Mark Twain. He had something like 28 different "careers" before he became the famous humorist and writer. Or how about Benjamin Franklin? I could go on and on, actually.

But once I looked at what I was doing from THAT perspective I felt just fine about it! And now, all these years and all these amazing experiences later, I wouldn't change a bit of it. Now I know it was all about my deep inner longing for FREEDOM.

In fact, I just keep discovering new opportunities to experience more and more and I am enthusiastically shouting "YES!" to them every day.

I like the way Emile Zola put it: "I am here to live out loud."

Go for it! (And as for what anyone else thinks about it, well, bless 'em if they can't take a joke.)

Wow, this thread is so great! I thought there was something wrong with me, lol, because I've changed directions so many times. I'm not sure, even now, if my children and my life partner really understand but that's OK.

Let's see...I've been a personal shopper, done fashion merchandising, ran two antiquarian bookstores, almost finished a degree in interior design, worked in a CPA's office, crawled around in cement kilns and steel ladles, shipped equipment around the country and the world, I'm currently a massage therapist and skin tech and wedding minister and I'm working on manifesting becoming a spiritual life coach. After that....who knows? I guess its whatever catches my fancy and passion!

I simply love being here with all of you and thank you from the bottom of my heart for what I'm learning!

Namaste!

My journey has been: stenographer; nearly completed a BA majoring in philosophy; years of doing courses in swedish massage, iridology, herbs, Oriental Medicine (completed a 3 year Diploma); typestting; psychotherapy (completed a 3 year diploma); counselling (in drug and alcohol rehab, and bereavement); aged cared nursing; 2 years of BA in Nursing; shop manager/assistant .... not to mention all the little dribs and drabs - waitressing, financial educating, taxation course, running a guest house ... !!! That's just what I can think of now ... oh and network marketing!

I can say I'm definitely multi-skilled, but still confused about my true calling! lol! I'll get there though...

Jayne

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I can say I'm definitely multi-skilled, but still confused about my true calling! lol! I'll get there though...

Jayne

Lol, Jayne! Maybe that's what people like us have missed, up til now. Maybe our true calling is experiencing all of these varied jobs, gaining skills from all of them and continuing to head for better and better things all the while!

I know I have and hold a core value of helping and being of service to others. It seems you have and hold the same. That is great because it allows us to play on a very large playground with many, many options!

This is a really great thread!!!

Funny you mention Freedom.

I have on my Universe to Do list a CMI of discovering my true wants and desires.

Just yesterday and today its been bubbling up in my head and the words free and independent came up. I realized that is why I dont want a job in a corporation or a career there or even in a Medical institution.

I want to be free from the way things are in there. It is not the life I want or like as so many of my friends did or classmates are aiming for.

It really explains why things have happened as they have; inside I was not doing what I really wanted in life.

I wonder if the ho-hums on a job or lack of success at some occupation is the minds way of saying but this is not it... this is not what you have buried deep inside here. Keep looking.

And it is not a matter of being a square peg to fit in a square hole, or being a round peg looking for your right hole.

It is about creating the right fitting hole for whatever shape peg you are.

Jim

Yippee! I am not alone

In the past I could get away with my job hopping because I was still in school, so not qualified for anything.

(Still I managed to be an excellent breakfast waitress, chambermaid, usherette and cashier, gardener, window washer, a cook, a musician, a writer, an editor, a bills collector, a project manager, a nanny and a cake baker though to be honest that last "job" was only paid by the privilege of licking the last remnants of batter from the bowl, and the praise of course )

Wow this is fun. While writing, more job titles keep on popping up and I had done so many jobs already (though most of them unpaid, oops forgot to list entertainer, performer, actor and dancer) HOW COULD I EVER FORGET HOW MULTI TALENTED AND SPECIAL I AM??

Bookkeeper, money manager, tax consultant and translator. Garden designer, interior designer. Painter. Restoration expert. Fortune teller, Investor. Doctor's assistant and keeper of the patients records. I was all of those and more, before I ever worked in a "real" job.

Then I was an Office Manager for two weeks, then a Software Expert Sales Assistant, a Computer Trainer and Helpdesk Specialist. Programmer, Analyst, Beautician, Masseuse and Entrepreneur. Mentor and coach. Weight loss consultant. Translator and subtitling, better because I am getting paid now Executive Assistant, I am finally working where I am officially qualified LOL.

Life is good.

Caroline

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Now I know it was all about my deep inner longing for FREEDOM.

Woah, Rebecca you were speaking from my heart there! I learnt a couple of years ago that freedom is what I am all about, and it explained A LOT! Some of the most unhappy, unfulfilled people I know are 'stuck' in careers, places and relationships that they stopped getting pleasure from years ago.

The courage to be changeable and try new stuff is a beautiful trait. And one that is often put down as 'flighty' (a compliment in my eyes!). Rainbowspirit thank you for starting a very interesting post...and for helping me to realise something else I take for granted that I can be very grateful for - a courageous heart, an adventurous spirit and a curious mind!

Love

Donna.x

Oh yes, I can relate too. I have had several careers in my time so far and still don't know "what I want to be when I grow up." I have handed in my notice at my latest job and don't know what I'll be doing next year which is exciting isn't it? I get to create my life. My friends and anyone I tell are nervous for me, and they just don't understand how I can be so positive about it.

And yes, for me it's all about freedom - time freedom.

Some people think I'm flakey. Even my mother made comment once, noting that I've often talked about doing something and never followed through. That's just me thinking out loud though, continually searching and curious. She was comparing me to my brother at the time, he's always seemed to have a pretty clear idea of what he wants and is living a life of his dreams. So now I prefer to keep my thoughts to myself and let my actions do the talking. Sometimes I find that difficult, because I still don't have a clear idea of what I want, but I do know some of the things I want.

I enjoy learning about lots of different things. My CMI is all about variety, I desire many different income streams to cover my many different interests. For me, I'd get bored following one thing all my life.

Hi Kiwigirl,

Yes, I have found out that sharing dreams and ideas with certain people is not to my advantage and have just decided to be more selective who I would mention them to.

I will share here and maybe with one or two people I know. Otherwise it is best to let them find out after I have done it and the thing is underway or completed.

There is no need to take on reluctant crewmembers when you are sailing towards your dreams.

Some people are able to achieve their dreams easily as they have a clear idea and it part of societies established systems and way of currently being.

Yet, if you have dreams that are not within the establishment's set system then it takes much more effort and courage to go that way.

Trailblazers usually are labeled or scoffed at.

For instance what if a person I know of told people (years ago and before she did it) that she would start an online business to give away a free book, give away a free ezine, and help people with free advice in a forum, and then ask them to set the price they wanted to pay..

They would have laughed at her till they passed out, they would have tried to save her from it for her own good, and they would have never let her buy that big furry hat she wears.

And you see what end she came to...

So, best find other brave birds to share with and just avoid mentioning it to the turkeys who scratch about.

Jim

Wow,
I just came across this thread.........I am not alone! What a great feeling to see that all my tried vocations and jobs are not in vain , and yes they really do add up to experience. I never had a conventional career path or a life, been there ,done that seemed to be the motto. I know it just makes me well rounded and dare I say worldly!! Kudo's to all of us who do and be what inspires us along the way!

Namaste`
Heather

Hi everyone

It's great having a thread like this.

I felt I should explain my varied life.

Left Grammar school in 1972 and worked for local government in the computer dept (whole air conditioned room for a computer much less powerful than an pc!)

Then worked as a progress chaser for Plessey they built Jaguar aircraft electronics amongst other miitary parts.

Then started my own business as a panel beater and owned a small garage.

Things got really tough in 1979 so I became a London bus driver.

After about 4 years I became Asst Manager in a Recruitment Agency - the Chairman of that company was also Chairman of a fruit & veg wholesaler in Covent Garden - so off I went as Office Manager after a few years I was Managing Director.

That became boring after I had restructured and I actually put myself out of work.

My father and I invented a truck anti-rollback device - we invested loads of money we went all round Europe and USA had great interest but we ran out of money before we could really crack it.

Became sales & marketing manager for an engineering company where we made lazer cutting machines and got into the new air bag manufacturing business.

Then involved in starting up a truck security product company then started in business with a truck garage and built this up from 4 people to 43! But business partner was lining his own pocket.

So went to work as Regional sales Dir for truck importer but it was a Turkish truck and not really up to European standards.

Therefore I became sales manager for Renault truck dealership

Then sales manager for municiple hire company

Next I started a van hire company on the same pitch a friend had started his business many years previous, however the demographics had changed totally and I had not done my research so it failed.

I became account manager and after sales manager for a truck dealership we were selling modec an electric commercial vehicle and LDV but no one could afford the high prices of the EV during a recession did make some sales to UPS though!

Had a go at selling Photo copiers.

Back to truck sales

Then joined the truck security parts company that I had helped start 20 years earlier and thought that was the job to see me through to retirement.

However, while working here I first encountered SOGR it proved that I could never have been successful before because I never had CMI in any of the positions - I would just look at tomorrow!

I put my desires in writing and pretty soon I was offered a role as sales director of the last truck sales place I had worked as the management team had left and the owner asked me to come back and offered the exact salary I had specifically written down!

Sorry it is so long but it is rather varied!

Hoping you all success

George

My experience was just the opposite.My father filled my head full of crap.I was trained to believe that I was put on this world to do his will. It was drilled into me that if I didn`t do exactly as he said then I would amount to nothing.I grew up in a family business & it was my fathers desire to have all his kids work for him.Nothing else mattered.Here I am, middle aged, & all I`ve done is this one thing that I hate & have never been any good at.Now I`m trying to do something else because I can no longer physically do the work I used to do but I keep sabotaging myself & losing money.I`m tired of living this way, feeling this way & thinking this way.I`ve never read an honest, truthful post like this one, in this place.I`m here because my life isn`t working not because I want to believe that other people think of me as some kind of cosmic councelor.

WOW! I just came across my life story multiple times over in this thread! Thanks to everyone for all the encouraging thoughts, I needed it today.

I won't go into all of my travels but I'm very glad to see that there are others like myself out there living 'out of the mainstream' so to speak. When you have an open mind and a curious nature, there are so many interesting choices and things to distract.

I've always experienced these principles as true as an inherent inner knowing but I've let the collective fear of late get under my skin..

It's now time for me, personally, to rise above all that, focus on one thing - at least for a little while - and work up the funding for financial freedom and the next grand adventure.

That's what I'm here to do. Good luck to us all!

Peace

~Rani