Sometimes it’s easy. I find my mind wandering onto a subject that doesn’t make me feel good. I grab the thought by the tail (occasionally I can almost hear it screech with indignity), and I send it on its way. I call another thought onto the stage, and I’m good to go.
When it comes to doing things, though, it’s more challenging. I’m still hung up on how to feel good when I’m doing something I really don’t want to do.
It’s this freelancing stuff again. I’m considering taking a job; it doesn’t pay nearly as well as I want it to, and I think it’s going to be a lot of work (honestly, I’d rather take about 100 naps).
I can feel the “not good feelings” when I contemplate the job (or any freelancing job—face it; I want to write my own stuff, not someone else’s). So I stop what I’m doing and go do something else.
Yesterday’s Abraham-Hicks quote was:
“Anytime you feel negative emotion, stop and say: Something is important here; otherwise, I would not be feeling this negative emotion. What is it that I want? And then simply turn your attention to what you do want. . . . In the moment you turn your attention to what you want, the negative attraction will stop; and in the moment the negative attraction stops, the positive attraction will begin. And—in that moment—your feeling will change from not feeling good to feeling good. That is the Process of Pivoting.”
So this is me lately:
Look for freelance job, feel lousy, pivot
Bid on freelance job, feel lousy, pivot
Contemplate freelance job, feel lousy, pivot
Consider not taking freelance jobs and just waiting for Tim to win the lottery, feel lousy, pivot
Look for a freelance job, feel lousy, pivot
…..etc., etc., etc.
How do I keep on what I want when I feel like I need to do what I don’t want to get what I do want (money)?
Then again, how does doing something I don’t want (that doesn’t feel good) put me in vibrational alignment with what I do what?
Are you bored yet?
I sure am.
So moving on, pivoting again…
I’ve started a new blog, one that DOES make me happy. No money in it, of course, but it makes me SMILE. It’s called The Joyful Springer, and it celebrates two of my top priorities—feeling good and my dog(s).
The best time I had yesterday was when I was working on my Joyful Springer blog. So does that mean I should do more of that and less looking for freelance jobs? Abraham-Hicks would say yes. Logic says no.
Do I stick with my experiment and ignore logic?
How committed am I?
Still pondering that.
In the meantime, I’m at least happy that I’m ultra-aware of when I feel less than good. So I keep pivoting, and pivoting, and pivoting and …..
