Persist...Persist...Persist

The Daily Teachings from "The Secret" is kind of like a daily calendar with an inspirational thought for each day. It's a notepad with 365 undated pages. Each page contains the day of the week, along with a quote or comment related to "The Secret." The pad is inside a hard cover with a lift-up top, and of course, has all the lovely packaging of any of "The Secret" items.

I bought the Daily Teachings to give myself a continual reminder to use the principles of "The Secret" on a routine and consistent basis. It's so enjoyable to open this up each morning and pull off my thought for the day. I'm always excited to see what I'm going to get and how it pertains to my current situation.

Anyway, a recent thought for the day began with "Persist...persist...persist." The gist of the Daily Teaching was to use "The Secret" principles routinely until they just become second nature. I thought of this as I experienced a few good things at my old job, even after I'd begun to think that I was not making progress.

It seems as if it's really important to persist in using the principles of "The Secret" even when things seem dark and as if nothing is really changing or happening. I think the happening is taking place behind the scenes, so to speak, and isn't always apparent until some time later. So, my goal is to persist...persist...persist. I can do it.

Focus

I was telling someone about my day today, and in the midst of the telling, realized I was focusing my story on the one hour of extreme unpleasantness I'd experienced. I had completely forgotten about the many hours of real enjoyment I'd experienced doing work I really, really love.

It was only after I'd complained about my day, and was onto another topic, that I remembered what fun I'd had working on a project. I told my listener about the fun part of the day, and as I was talking I realized how I'd let one hour become the story of my entire day.

When I really think about, I got to spend many hours doing the things I love most about work. I had a big writing project, which allowed me to:

• write topics of my own choosing.
• take difficult or technical topics and turn them into customer-friendly language through interviews and collaboration with topic experts.
• research subjects I don't have complete knowledge on.
• search the web for content ideas, statistics, etc.
• spend time quietly focused on the writing project, to the exclusion of all else.

I LOVED this part of my day. As I think about my Dream Job, writing and research are definitely a very large portion of my day.