Does IM work at the office?

[cylon]

Of course the answer is "yes", but I wonder, are the expectations of what your day is going to be like, so strong that IM "turns off" from 8-5? On evenings, weekends, and during my lunch break, I notice things happening/synkros at a level that doesn't tend to happen during the normal day. Yeah there have been several times where people have started discussing what was on my mind, etc, and I "expect" that to happen.

But the roles and expectations at a work-place are so defined.

People's personalities, their ego-identification with their job title, the long-held grudges (maybe towards you or not), the years-old bad practices. How could you IM your way out of that without totally changing environments and saying goodbye? If your hands are tied in a political atmosphere, isn't that by design?


A common piece of wisdom is "accept the things you cannot change" yet IM says (talking abraham here), we can make it so only good things come to us usually. I mean, we're supposed to not try to change people. Yet for a lot of folks, they can only be successful at work or happy, if other people DO change. So WE have to change.

Thoughts?

[dancer]

I think ALG will have great things to say about this as I recall reading how he IM'd his work day.

Perhaps, it is about setting an intention around the way you see your work environment and that will in turn change your whole experience.

IM is working all the time. I'm not really setting intentions, but my thoughts have created quite a few significant changes in my life. Some good and some not so good. You may not notice manifestations in the office because you go in with the expectation that there is political and ego warfare and other boring things in your office. Isn't that what you are getting?

[cylon]

Originally Posted by dancer

You may not notice manifestations in the office because you go in with the expectation that there is political and ego warfare and other boring things in your office. Isn't that what you are getting?

Something like that. Sometimes my workplace is more political than a... political campaign. People look out for themselves, friends and enemies change back and forth, and watch your back! Lol. Fun stuff.

I don't ever recall EXPECTING life to be like this (political atomosphere). I noticed it around me and had to learn to work within it and knock heads myself. But for some reason, I attracted it anyway. Shoot.

I was thinking of this when I read ALG's visualization of how his work day would go. I tried to imagine myself doing the same, in this case, not being taken advantage of, but in order for his thing to work at MY place, everyone would have to have life altering realizations and change their lives.

I can deal. The dream seems so real though.

[dancer]

How did you word "not being taken advantage of"?

[cylon]

Well being underpaid and passed-over for promotions based on favoritism, all that stuff. Probably for the best though. But I didn't expect that when I started. I thought I'd go to the top, but what happened is my inept direct supervisor was threatened by me so he tries to trip me up. So it sort of shakes my faith in people being good at what they do getting rewarded for it.

See it's already getting negative on the cylon-end, lol. I laid in bed last night and told myself I have to just let all this go, to stop caring that it didn't work out and accept "defeat".

My ego is heavily invested in this place, even though I'm trying to move past it.

[dancer]

Intend a successful career development discussion with your supervisor. Tell him your goal is to advance within the company and ask him what areas he feels you need to focus in order to set you up for a promotion. As a manager this is part of his job to develop his stars. Be the star, you don't have to kiss butt or anything.

When I've been bored in positions, I've looked at my skills and where I can improve them and told the right people my goals - this landed promotions.

[dancer]

And while you're at it... Prepare a list of all your achievements before you go in for your salary discussion. AND, do a super intention session.

[cylon]

Well my supervisor is afraid of me replacing him. That's the whole problem. He doesn't want me here because he rightly perceives me as a threat.

He's buddies with the owner from outside work so it means he keeps his job out of friendship, and I don't progress in the company, because of that. I've talked about this directly with the owner, he stalls me. Tries to give me better assignments but tries to not hurt his friend's feelings at the same time. This has been going on for years.

Guess it sounds like I'm whining, or that I'm a victim. I've made peace with the fact that although I didn't get a fair shake here doesn't mean there's nothing better for me, and yes I am looking.

But what I've described, it seems to set in stone. It's all about people's fears, and their ego. I'm just one guy, IM or not. I can't change other people.

[cylon]

I appreciate it though dancer. That would work most places.

[dancer]

You could always intend him a promotion and for you to step into his position.

[cylon]

Originally Posted by dancer

You could always intend him a promotion and for you to step into his position.

I could, it would be his years long nightmare realized. He's already got two separate job titles. He can't bare to part with one, and there's nowhere "up" for him to go. But it could be a nightmare for me too. The only person with real power, is the owner. And he is not a very good person, or at least (cough) I am interacting with his ego and perceiving him to not be a good person.

I just don't see a way out other than the universe turning inside out and all the people involved to become different people. Which is probably more work for the universe than just getting me somewhere else. Guess I still have some resistance to a new life. Part of me is scared of the unknown. There ARE certain aspects of the job I like. Mainly, I can listen to music all day, wear what I want, and am sort of left alone. I don't know if I can expect that somewhere else, along with the recognition and cash.

Looks like I'm running in circles again, lol.

[dancer]

Know what you want and leave it up to the universe to work the details. Intend: salary requirements, dresscode, freedom to listen to music and an open & friendly atomsphere. Oh, and intend a supportive boss that encourages his employees to excel and don't forget about cool and interesting co-workers and assignments.

Keep sending your CV and let headhunters know you are in the market for the right position.

One thing that struck me in one of your previous posts was that getting your boss's job could also be a nightmare for you. Resistance? Might be something to look at.

And one last thought. Intend to release the resentment you are holding cause it is probably adding to the negative vibes. Sorry for being a bossy boots!

[cylon]

Thanks dancer. Getting my supervisor's position would be a nightmare only because I'm afraid my hands would still be tied by the owner. He's the only one with real power. He calls you a manager than undercuts your authority. Now if HE had a brain transplant and let me do the real work the job-title entails, it would be different.

But even having said all this, yes I'm working on the resentment. Seriously.


I swear.

I just think I've outgrown everything. Maybe even hopefully the negative vibes.

[dancer]

Thanks. I'm going to make an intention to create positive vibes. That is such a cool intention! I'm also going to take my own advice and intend to let go of some resentment I'm holding.

Thank you for my new intentions.

[cylon]

You know I was thinking about your post about what to intend and thought "why the hell am I not doing that?" And I remembered that I DID intend that stuff, but that somehow I doubted my job marketability. I started distracting myself by "learning" new skills, like no one would hire me unless I learned a new software program. Subconsciously I was saying "I'm not good enough right now". Or, that I will lose my freedom and work 18 hours a day. Instead of 8.

I forgot to trust.

So I'm going to take what you wrote and incorporate it into my little visualization/affirmation deal. Thanks for reminding me to believe in what I actually want.

[dancer]

The 'I'm not good enough right now' is a manifestation assassin. Suffer from that at times, too.

It's great you realised some of your resistance. Good job. Really hope your dream job manifests in record time.

[cylon]

Assassinate the manifestation assassins!

[Acting Like Godot]

In the offline world, there are few people I talk to about the LOA (for fear of being believed to be insane). But by a strange little synchronicity, in a previous job, I did come to discover that one of my colleagues (let's call her V) had been using the LOA for many years. She does the Shakti Gawain version - creative visualisation.

Needless to say, V and I became very good friends.

Anyway, V once told me that all these years, she's kept her working life very smooth, by constantly using creative visualisation to remove difficult bosses and colleagues from her environment. How does she do it?

Of course she does not IM for the difficult people to get sacked etc. That would be black magick.

What V does is that she systematically IMs for them to discover new, exciting job opportunities elsewhere; or find something more meaningful to do with their lives.

One by one, all the difficult people vanish from her workplace, as they resign and move on to other organisations. Either that, or they transfer to other roles within the same organisation, where they no longer have anything to do with V.

In one case, the difficult person, a hard-headed, highly driven career woman with no social life, inexplicably adopted two orphans from a 3rd world country (Cambodia), opted for early retirement, and became a full-time mother.

--- To Be Continued

[Acting Like Godot]

Sometime early last year, my wife and I were (as usual) discussing all the strange oddities about this amazing thing called the LOA.

We began to latch on the idea that the way to test the LOA was to use bizarre and highly unusual intentions, which, by conventional reckoning, ought to be very unlikely to come true. Thus if they did come true, it was much less likely to be attributable to a meaningless random coincidence.

One of the bizarre, unusual intentions was for my wife to become CEO of her company. You must know firstly that she is only in her early thirties, working in a company which is quite hierarchical, seniority-based and stable. In the hierarchy of things, my wife was at best around No. 8 and this is the kind of organisation where the top 3 or 4 people are likely to stay in their roles until they retire or die of old age.

Anyway, just for the fun of seeing if the LOA works, my wife and I both started manifesting for her to become CEO. (Of course we added the intention that all this would happen in a way for the "highest good of all").

Again - an odd string of coincidences. A few people started getting transferred, moved around to other parts of the world etc. One of the chaps got moved all the way around the world to the coast of Africa (my wife works in a shipping company. It owns a fleet of about 60 ships - which is quite a lot - and also various specialised vessels, eg those that work around deep-sea oil rigs; or are used for deep-sea oil exploration.).

Suddenly my wife became No. 4 in the company.

However, around this time, she got unhappy about a couple of things in her job. Also one of my kids fell sick and ended up in hospital.

After that, my wife started having thoughts about quitting work to be a full-time mum, or getting a part-time job. Basically, she was not interested in being CEO anymore.

We began to IM other sorts of intentions for her career. I've discussed them in the forum before - see Event No. 3 in this listhere.

Amazingly it worked. She now has a three-day work week, with no pay cut. Furthermore she can choose to work from home or in the office.

If they need her back to work full-time on urgent projects, they will pay her extra. That is, she now works Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. If they need her to work Tues & Thurs, they pay extra.

(There were some very minor trade-offs - for example, the company no longer covers her medical expenses. This is an insignificant trade-off; since my own employer's medical benefits cover my wife + kids.)

----- To Be Continued

[Acting Like Godot]

Anyway, as I said, my wife occupies Position No. 4 (broadly speaking, because there's some flatness in the structure).

Now, most recently (one week ago), it was announced that by the end of 2008, the CEO & Managing Director of the company would be leaving (he would be transferred to a new role in the parent company in another country).

The current Deputy CEO would take over as CEO. There are no plans to hire a replacement Deputy CEO.

So effectively my wife will move into Position No. 3.

Now the Deputy CEO is quite old. In fact, he had been making plans for retirement. Now that he's going to become CEO, he's put his retirement plans on hold. However, he IS quite old and who knows, it's quite conceivable, he'll retire, say, in another 2 years.

Assuming that nothing else changes, that would place my wife in No. 2 spot. Which is REALLY quite remarkable for a person working only three days a week, and often from home, and who would be only 36 years old by then.

[cylon]

Wow ALG. Thanks for posting all those amazing results.

One thing I have noticed about your posts is a specific force of clarity in your intentions. You make the intention, follow through, result, next intention, abc. You don't appear to have the same misgivings or, (I don't want to say DOUBTS), but the additional ponderings on what the "other" potential ramifications of the intention could be, you just "do stuff".

You have a very bare-bones, result-oriented approach to this stuff. You just dive right in. Seems like your "guidance system" is always aligned with the intention. No cobwebs in the brain slowing you down.

This is where I need to start heading.

[Acting Like Godot]

I want to share with you another of V's stories.

V had a close friend (let's call the friend X) who worked in a bank. Let's just say that the bank is one of the world's biggest banks. The friend held quite a senior position in the bank.

The friend had a bit of a midlife crisis. She started wondering about the meaning of life etc etc. She felt that her job in the bank was really, really not what she wanted to do with her life.

V asked, "Well, what do you want to do with your life?"

X said that she wanted to do meaningful things to help people. Social work; volunteer work; help the poor; save the environment. That kind of thing.

V said, "Well, if that is what you want to do, why don't you get a job in some charitable organisation?'

X had a lot of difficulty with that. Basically she had no relevant experience for the kind of thing that she wanted to do, therefore she didn't see how she could get a job that paid well. (Bear in mind she was working in a senior position in a bank, and already earning a lot). The money was still very important to her - she was not prepared to forsake that.

X did proceed to try looking for jobs in charitable organisations, but as she feared, she could not find any suitable jobs.

At this point, V decided to tell her friend about the LOA (or rather, Shakti Gawain's creative visualisation methods). V said, "If you cannot find your dream job, then you will just have to create it from scratch."

X said, "What do you mean?"

V told her about the visualisation stuff.

X thought V was crazy.

V said, "Yes of course, but no harm trying, right?"

X gave it a shot. Within one month, a new kind of job was created within her bank. The job was advertised internally. It was something like "Global Head of Corporate Social Responsibility".

For those of you who don't know what CSR is, well, you can google. Nowadays, basically many MNCs now have some form of CSR programme, but in those days, it was quite rare. CSR means all those activities whereby the MNC organises, towards worthy social causes. For example, they may support AIDS awareness; or organise fundraising activities for the victims of natural disasters; or support specific charities, and so on.

(It's not done purely for altruistic reasons, but partly for PR reasons. It's also for gaining goodwill from government bodies, when you start doing new business in different countries).

ANYWAY, the thing is, X's bank suddenly decided that instead of doing CSR activities on an ad-hoc basis in different countries, they needed a Global Head of CSR, who would build a team over time and systematically coordinate the bank's CSR efforts around the world.

X went for the interview. She had no experience, but she got the job. She was internally transferred. There was no pay cut.

Last I heard, she was still Global Head of CSR.

So you see, using creative visualisation, she created her dream job from scratch. In fact, because her bank is so huge (it operates in probably 70+ countries around the world), she's now in charge of the bank's charitable efforts literally all around this planet.