Why I Am Thankful for My Work

One of the pieces of my workshop was to ask folks to write down why what they do is so great, and how they would be doing the world a great disservice by NOT marketing themselves. I thought it would be fun if as many people that wanted to do this, would write to the network why they think what they do is so great, and in this week why they are so grateful for their work. Doing this will provide a double benefit. The person that writes it and sends it into the Universe will be reminding themselves. And they will be reminding the readers of why what THEY do is so great, too, and why they are thankful about it. I'll start.

Before I became a hypnotherapist in 1993 (in my early 30s), I was lost. I had done every job one can do without having formal education. I was always too squirmy to sit still for college for any length of time, although when I did go, I had a 4.0 average. I always found fault with every job, with every educational opportunity (I even went to court reporting school! - yikes, can you see me sitting still in a courtroom not saying anything!!?; - ) For five years, I was even a poker dealer - which was the most fun I ever had at a job, but after I quit smoking in 1992, that job did not fit my new self-image! All my life until that point, I searched and searched and searched for my calling, but I ALWAYS knew that it had to be something helping people and the world. My wonderful, funny, adorable mother died of emphysema. I had taken a self-hypnosis course from Pat Collins (The Hip Hypnotist) when I was 19 and remembered how cool I thought hypnosis was. After my mom died, I FINALLY decided what I wanted to do with my life. I wanted to go to school and become a hypnotherapist and help people quit smoking. I had found my calling. Thank God.

Today I honor my mother by helping to save a life, where hers was lost. I feel as though I have helped to save many people's lives in many different ways, I feel as though I have helped people to gain insight into themselves, I have given them tools to help themselves (whether they choose to use these tools or not). What could be a better job than that? I have been told that my purpose on this planet is to serve mankind. I believe that. And there is NOTHING that gives me greater joy than witnessing that shift in someone I am working with. What a rush to be able to facilitate that.

Sometimes I doubt myself and what I do. When folks don't get the benefits that they have come to see me for, I am pretty hard on myself (even though I counsel everybody to be gentle with themselves, and to be their own best friend). That has been the case lately, to tell you the truth. Then I have to remind myself that I have taught them tools, that it's possible that we just simply haven't hit on the right thing yet, and to persist. I have to remind myself of my past successes, and of the powerful healing that is possible. Maybe it's just because I moved across the country twice in two years that put me off my stride. Yesterday, I got my FIRST call from my website since I've been living here in Fremont! Coincidence? I think not. Talk about The Laws of Attraction in action!

I'm SO EXCITED AND GRATEFUL to tell you that I have my stride back. Dr. Bryan Knight suggested that the workshop might be the thing to get me back on track. And I really feel it has. So many people got so many benefits. There was so much love, so much powerful healing, so much connection, you could feel it if you walked into the room. And it will never, ever, end.