Last night after I came back from a networking meeting, I tweeted about following your passion. A friend on twitter, @mlanger (Maria Langer) replied that I have been listening to The Secret for too long and just go for it.
I personally thought “The Secret” was kind of shallow. Yes, it got people’s mind flowing with creating vision boards and so on. I have done all that. But it didn’t incorporate alot of the action – GO FOR IT! that my twitter friend, Maria said. I have always been a good doer left brain trained type of person. I would have preferred to have had my sister, Maria(not same as twitter friend) partner with me as we had envisioned. But she didn’t go for it. So my plans got revised. And they got put on hold because of my need to create immediate income to pay my bills.
My birthday is coming up this week. Birthdays are celebrated to remind you of that point in time when you took that leap into this world to embrace life. I celebrated a pre-birthday moment yesterday when I went to a meeting with the Association for Women in Communications(AWCS). It was the first time I met anyone from this group. The topic was about social media, so there were a lot of local twitterers there, including men.
I let it be my coming out party in a business setting of embracing my new future career. A guy I was talking to said: “What do you do?” I answered, ” I am letting go of my identity today.” His eyes widened, and I could imagine him wondering if I was having a crisis. I quickly continued, “I am officially letting go of the association that I have identified myself for 24 years as a real estate broker today.” We both laughed. I kept my real estate business cards in my purse all night.
Real Estate served me well. I gave it my last hurrah in the last year by attempting to get my foot in the door of what I thought was the most probable niche that would produce income – bank listings. In this niche, clients that I seek are not the regular day to day people looking for a property. They are Asset Managers who are hired by banks to sell their inventory of homes that people lost. I got my foot in the door with one. They have been giving me bank assignments which pay very little.
The hope was that in exchange for doing this work, I would be receiving bank listings. I am qualified for the job, but it isn’t paying my bills. So the foot is half way in. I didn’t pursue other niches of showing property to buyers, quite frankly, because of hurting my ankle. Most deals in this market are short sales and they take about six months on average to close. I also didn’t want to run around chasing deals that had a big likelihood of falling apart as they did for me last year. There is a remote possibility that the banks will come through. But that is like getting a no income documentation loan these days. It is also a business dominated by maybe only 1% of Realtors.
My other foot at night has been writing on this blog and figuring out how to get a book published. I am ready to GO FOR IT now. As I was happily engaged sharing my vision of the book cover with a graphic artist, someone chimed in and said, “Are you doing a script for a movie?” I cracked up laughing and said to him, “No I am just having fun being inspired.”
I trust my more liberated self will carry me to find a job where I will be happy and where I can contribute my talents. I think this time, my efforts in sending out my resume will be more energetic now that I shed this old association and am excitedly embracing a new experience.
I am looking for a job as an Operations Director for a creative company. It could be full time, part time or even as contract work. If anyone knows someone, please send them the link to my resume. Thank you.
P.S. You can tell them that I can also be “Inspirational Director” to boost employee morale;-)
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