What do you do when you get the sense that your work no longer serves YOU?
For many people, there's the thing you do for a living and then there's the thing you long to do.
Somehow the work you do isn’t enough anymore. You have the sense that something is missing but may not be able to put your finger on what is “off”. So you try to ignore this "knowing" thinking it will go away, but it doesn’t go away – the awareness only grows and the pain deepens over time.
This is all part of the conscious reinvention journey to get you back on your path or move you forward. The pain of not being aligned causes you to search within for deeper truth and meaning.
If you're not using your gifts, talents and skills where you are, why not? You can’t change what you’ve come to tolerate.
Your gifts are meant to be used – not pinched off, stuffed down or hidden away.
If your dream is to do work that lights you up, you can. You don't have to trade a life of purpose for a paycheck.
Your Reinvention Is My Passion.
Love and blessings,
Your dream job is hidden in plain sight. The Destiny ProfileTM is an intuitive consultation for anyone who is looking to breakthrough the obstacles keeping you from your career, income and leadership potential. Encoded in your birth date is the description of the destiny work you came to share with the world. This private, 60 minute session (by phone) is designed to discover the destiny work you’ve already signed up for, understand the changing cycles of your career and explore new possibilities. After this session you’ll walk away with fresh perspectives on your life’s direction and the work you came here to do.
Do you ever wish your career were more, well, meaningful? Debi Harris found a new job that pay the bills—and also enriches her life. Excert from Reinventing for the Soul, MORE.com. Originally published in the April 2012 issue.
DEBI HARRIS, 57 | From Sales Executive | To Nonprofit Fund Raiser
As far back as 1972, when she was a freshman at Howard University, Debi Harris had the heart of a philanthropist. She joined Delta Sigma Theta, the largest African-American sorority in the country. “I committed to a lifetime of community service,” she says. “And I took that pledge to heart.” After graduating, she began what would become a successful career as a sales and marketing executive, and in her free time, she volunteered for her sorority, helping to raise money for its scholarship programs. Eventually, she became a sales manager at Sprint Wireless, in San Francisco. “I worked to earn money so that I could do the things I enjoyed, and part of my enjoyment was giving back,” she says.
From the outside, Harris’s life looked perfect: $125,000 in annual income in 1999, plus bonuses and benefits, a house in the Bay Area and a new wardrobe every season. But inside, “I was tired,” she says. “My mother had passed away, and there was nobody to be proud of me anymore. I was working just to keep up. I said to myself, You need to feel better about what you’re doing.”
She quit her job in 2000 and moved to Paris to start a company providing Afrocentric tours of the city. A year later, Harris returned to San Francisco, only to discover that an economic downturn had eliminated even those jobs she’d begun to dislike before leaving for France. She became a freelance marketing consultant to pay the bills.
One day she discovered that a client, the international nonprofit Women’s Funding Network (WFN), was offering a course that trained women of color to be fund raisers. Harris signed up—and felt totally inspired as the presenter described how raising money for nonprofits can lead to social change. Until then, she says, “I never understood that giving could be that powerful or that one could make a living by fund raising. I thought, I know how to do this, and I could make a world of difference.”
Harris went on to work full time at WFN for five years. As vice president of development, she secured -multimillion-dollar donations from the foundations of Ford, American Express, Levi’s and others while increasing donations from individuals. With an annual salary of $65,000, however, she had to adjust her personal spending. Gone were regular dinners out and expensive cuts and color (“I switched to getting my hair braided,” she says). But downsizing didn’t bother her. “Every day I felt better about what I was doing,” she says.
In 2009, Harris moved to Florida to take the helm of the Women’s Fund of Miami-Dade, a nonprofit that tackles such issues as sex trafficking, domestic violence, employment rights and women’s financial literacy. “Never during my high-tech career did I have a sense that I would change society,” says Harris, whose salary is now over $100,000. “I see girls become women, I see domestic violence victims being empowered. It makes me want to get up and go raise more money. When you invest in women and girls, you are investing in the improvement of communities. I feel that I was put on this earth to bring others along to this way of thinking.”
ANDREA ATKINS, a frequent contributor to national magazines, lives in Rye, New York.
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How would you know if you’re moving towards a conscious reinvention or you’re in the middle of one now?
Do you feel a call in your heart that’s nudging you to consider a new direction with your life, talents or business?
Do you feel you’re not fully living your mission and something needs to change (but you don’t know what?)
Do you have a valuable message you know you must share with the world?
Is there more to what you want to contribute but it feels stuck inside?
Have you been laid off, transferred, promoted or fired?
These are all indications that you've reached a wake-up call in your life that is preparing you to get back on your path or to move you forward to your next great work.
While being fired or laid off seems like a pretty obvious wake-up call, but what about being promoted or tranferred?
I remember several years back when the division I had been very happy with was merged with another larger division and my position was transferred to a new department. While I liked the people I was working with, I knew the work wasn't the direction I was feeling led and a sense of unease settled in.
Although I was in that role for another 18 months, looking back I knew right from the start that something was changing that I couldn't put my finger on it. It was only when I was laid off with 900 other folks during the economic crisis in 2009 that the call was clear. It was time to let go and move on.
Through that releasing the conscious reinvention movement was birthed, and I now guide leaders of all levels through their own personal transformation, to do the work that matters to them. This is my dream work, and it fills me up and has brought incredible miracles, fulfillment and blessings along with it.
The same is true for you. Your dream work will light you up, that's how you know you are exactly where you’re supposed to be, doing exactly what you’re supposed to be doing. And that is what I want for all of you.
It’s my deepest desire that you come alive to the fact that you are here on purpose. Everybody has a calling, and your real job in life is to figure out what that is and get about the business of doing it.
Your Reinvention Is My Passion.
Love and blessings,
Your dream job is hidden in plain sight. The Destiny ProfileTM is an intuitive consultation for anyone who is looking to breakthrough the obstacles keeping you from your career, income and leadership potential. Encoded in your birth date is the description of the destiny work you came to share with the world. This private, 60 minute session (by phone) is designed to discover the destiny work you’ve already signed up for, understand the changing cycles of your career and explore new possibilities. After this session you’ll walk away with fresh perspectives on your life’s direction and the work you came here to do.
The soul’s intention is to align with work that uses your pain, gifts and dreams to serve others– your mission.
Whether you recognize it or not, there is a process everyone goes through during their conscious reinvention. One vital principle that will help you move through your transition is to know your purpose is ever expanding.
Our destiny path isn’t something we find once and then put away. Picture an upward spiral – that’s the image I’d like you to consider as you think of your destiny path.
Throughout 9 year reinvention cycles you are continually given the opportunity to gain life experiences that will heal and prepare you for your next greatest work.
At the end of each cycle you are given the opportunity to release the burdens, and take all the knowledge and blessings into your next phase - to use your expanded level of knowledge, service and influence to heal yourself, and then to heal the world by giving to others what you wished had been offered to you in moments of deepest pain.
You built into your life plan those experiences that will help you let go. So if you have been laid off, promoted, fired, transferred to a new job or find that your work no longer satisfies – say “thank you!” because your life is showing you it’s time to either get back on your path or is preparing you to step into your next great work.
A conscious reinvention doesn’t always have to mean that you leave your current company. But it does mean that you are aligning with work that matters to you, using your gifts, talents and passion in the work that you do.
Your Reinvention Is My Passion.
Love and blessings,
Your dream job is hidden in plain sight. The Destiny ProfileTM is an intuitive consultation for anyone who is looking to breakthrough the obstacles keeping you from your career and leadership potential. Encoded in your birth date is the description of the destiny work you came to share with the world. This private, 60 minute session (by phone) is designed to discover the destiny work you’ve already signed up for, understand the changing cycles of your career and explore new possibilities. After this session you’ll walk away with fresh perspectives on your life’s direction and the work you came here to do.
How do you redesign the blueprint of your life when your work no longer serves you?
This is your invitation to rebuild your life from the inside out. I’m not talking about making things a bit better, polishing yourself or looking for a new job. I’m talking about the reset button – a conscious reinvention that changes the game. That means an overhaul in what you believe is possible and how you approach the work that you do. If you’re up for that, then right here, right now, you can start.
How? Do work that matters to you.
If you’ve ever felt a longing for more meaning and purpose through the work that you do, then know you are being beckoned into a higher truth of who you are, why you are here and what you came here to do.
You are here on purpose. It’s time to own up to who you really are and the work that calls out to you.
Before you came to this life you chose a specific mission you intended to fulfill which is encoded into the date of your birth and vibration of your name. When you are aligned with that mission you will find success, no matter how unconventional the work may seem to others. When you are not aligned with your mission you will experience resistance – all planned to either get you back on your path or move you forward on the journey.
You won’t feel satisfied until you own up to your great work. The pain you’re experiencing is on purpose. You signed up for this and everything in your life has brought you to this very point. It’s time to step out of hiding and align your life with your destiny work.
Your Reinvention Is My Passion.
Love and blessings,
Your dream job is hidden in plain sight. The Destiny ProfileTM is an intuitive consultation for anyone who is looking to breakthrough the obstacles keeping you from your career, income and leadership potential. Encoded in your birth date is the description of the destiny work you came to share with the world. This private, 60 minute session (by phone) is designed to discover the destiny work you’ve already signed up for, understand the changing cycles of your career and explore new possibilities. After this session you’ll walk away with fresh perspectives on your life’s direction and the work you came here to do.
At this very moment you have the opportunity to answer the call to your greatest work.
You are being beckoned into a higher truth of who you are, why you are here and what you came here to do.
Everything that matters to you is by divine design.
You don’t have to choose between making money or doing work that uses all your gifts, talents and life experiences.
You came to this life with the specific gifts and talents you would need to fulfill your great potential.
Your greatest work offers to others what you wished had been offered to you in moments of deepest pain – to heal yourself and then bring healing to the world.
So what is the deepest pain you are experiencing now? That points the way to your next great work.
Your Reinvention Is My Passion.
Love and blessings,
Your dream job is hidden in plain sight. The Destiny ProfileTM is an intuitive consultation for anyone who is looking to breakthrough the obstacles keeping you from your career, income and leadership potential. Encoded in your birth date is the description of the destiny work you came to share with the world. This private, 60 minute session (by phone) is designed to discover the destiny work you’ve already signed up for, understand the changing cycles of your career and explore new possibilities. After this session you’ll walk away with fresh perspectives on your life’s direction and the work you came here to do.
This is so much bigger than reinventing yourself to find a new job.
This is about consciously reinventing - moving beyond your perceived limitations – to realize your dream work.
You are being called to remember that you are a spiritual being in a physical body – and that you came here to this life with a mission you intended to fulfill.
The world needs you to remember how powerful you truly are and to embrace your dreams and talents so that you can move purposefully in the world; because there are people waiting for what only you can give them.
Be encouraged and know that you can step into your biggest life and highest potential by doing work that matters to you.
There is so much support for you in this world and in the spirit world for you to make this transition. I encourage you to give yourself permission to embrace all of who you are and then to transform those around you – and ultimately the world – by your impact.
Your Reinvention Is My Passion.
Love and blessings,
Your dream job is hidden in plain sight. The Destiny ProfileTM is an intuitive consultation for anyone who is looking to breakthrough the obstacles keeping you from your career, income and leadership potential. Encoded in your birth date is the description of the destiny work you came to share with the world. This private, 60 minute session (by phone) is designed to discover the destiny work you’ve already signed up for, understand the changing cycles of your career and explore new possibilities. After this session you’ll walk away with fresh perspectives on your life’s direction and the work you came here to do.
The soul’s intention is to align with work that uses your pain, gifts, dreams (and even your pain) to serve others– your mission. When you do you will experience true abundance and see miracle after miracle occur to support your journey.
Your reinvention – your awakening and transformation – is at the heart of all I do. I have felt your pain, confusion and feelings of hopelessness, but you have to know it’s not hopeless. The situation that is causing you so much pain is just a beautiful reminder that there is more to do so you don’t get stuck.
This is about you discovering, aligning with and realizing your destiny path – to unleash your full potential through the work that you do.
Stay present and be open to what shows up – it may not look like what you thought it would be or even what you think makes sense initially. That’s the beauty of connecting at deeper levels with the Divine – there are no constraints in the spiritual world – and it can be so much bigger and more beautiful than you ever expected.
You can trust that aligning with the path you planned for this life will always make use of your dreams, talents and life experiences to the fullest, and bring you tremendous meaning and fulfillment as you use them to serve others.
Your Reinvention Is My Passion.
Love and blessings,
Your dream job is hidden in plain sight. The Destiny ProfileTM is an intuitive consultation for anyone who is looking to breakthrough the obstacles keeping you from your career, income and leadership potential. Encoded in your birth date is the description of the destiny work you came to share with the world. This private, 60 minute session (by phone) is designed to discover the destiny work you’ve already signed up for, understand the changing cycles of your career and explore new possibilities. After this session you’ll walk away with fresh perspectives on your life’s direction and the work you came here to do.
My deepest desire is that you can see yourself as the gift you truly are – to think bigger about who you are and what you offer the world. And to consider what it is you really want to do and what’s keeping you from that?
Regardless of whether your greatest work involves working with individuals, working with small groups, working locally, nationally or globally – doing work aligned with your destiny path will have a ripple effect that will transform 1, then 2, then 4, then 8…
Ultimately, we’re all connected and YOUR impact makes a difference.
We need you to use those gifts and talents – because your contribution is both important and needed today to help change the world. How you express your gifts in the world doesn't matter, it will be exactly right for you, and in return will transform those around you.
So…what’s keeping you from creating the life you yearn for – from living the life you were born to life?
I know that you are reading this as a result of your readiness to make a change in your life, and there are miracles, blessings and insights waiting for you.
So stay present, be open to what comes up for you and know that everything happens in divine order.
You are here for a reason and what’s showing up is to either get you back on your path or to move you forward to your next great work.
Your Reinvention Is My Passion.
Love and blessings,
Your dream job is hidden in plain sight. The Destiny ProfileTM is an intuitive consultation for anyone who is looking to breakthrough the obstacles keeping you from your career, income and leadership potential. Encoded in your birth date is the description of the destiny work you came to share with the world. This private, 60 minute session (by phone) is designed to discover the destiny work you’ve already signed up for, understand the changing cycles of your career and explore new possibilities. After this session you’ll walk away with fresh perspectives on your life’s direction and the work you came here to do.
You came to this life with gifts and talents that are meant to be used – and planned in life experiences that would help you to accomplish your mission or destiny path.
You chose these important life experiences and brought with you an internal GPS system to keep you on the right path – which is often known as intuition or inner wisdom – and is the language of your soul.
Its function is to remind of you why you’re here and what you need to do to stay on path. It is always available to you, which means you already access to the answers you seek.
As a leader isn't it wonderful to know you have such a powerful, accurate guidance tool available 24/7?
Your Reinvention Is My Passion.
Love and blessings,
Your dream job is hidden in plain sight. The Destiny ProfileTM is an intuitive consultation for anyone who is looking to breakthrough the obstacles keeping you from your career, income and leadership potential. Encoded in your birth date is the description of the destiny work you came to share with the world. This private, 60 minute session (by phone) is designed to discover the destiny work you’ve already signed up for, understand the changing cycles of your career and explore new possibilities. After this session you’ll walk away with fresh perspectives on your life’s direction and the work you came here to do.
Anastasia is the bestselling co-author of "Align, Expand and Succeed" (2010) and the upcoming book, "Ready, Aim, Excel" (2011) where she is profiled alongside Marshall Goldsmith and Ken Blanchard. In addition, she is also a guest blogger for Linked2Leadership, a top 15 leadership blog in the world.
Anastasia is the bestselling co-author of "Align, Expand and Succeed" (2010) and the upcoming book, "Ready, Aim, Excel" (2011) where she is profiled alongside Marshall Goldsmith and Ken Blanchard. In addition, she is also a guest blogger for Linked2Leadership, a top 15 leadership blog in the world.