Full Circle

I was a bit absent on my blog this month since I spent the last 3 weeks in Sweden. The trip was rich with memories, learning & lessons. I thought about this story as I sat on the plane on my way there. Whenever I think of it, I am always amazed by the twists and turns of life. And more & more, I see how much is happening in the background without our knowledge if we aren't paying attention AND how much power we have when we DO pay attention.

 

I'll never forget the day I went to my first teaching assignment in Stockholm. I just got hired as a freelance Business English teacher and I took the train out to a suburb to the company I would be teaching for, Telia AB. Just as I was walking up to the building where I would have my first class, it hit me....

About 11 years earlier I was working at a Japanese trading company in Stockholm doing administrative work. I had a lot of contact with customers in Sweden and was the middle person in the purchasing of telephone cables from Japan. Our biggest customer was Telia (at that time it was called Televerket). One of the men I had a lot of contact with told me once that he was taking English lessons that his company provided him with.

I remember thinking that teaching English at a company was something that I wanted to do. I wasn't very fulfilled doing the work I was doing at the time, but didn't see how I could teach English since I had no training. I quickly gave that idea up. A few years went by, a relationship ended and I found myself back in California feeling lost and confused. Finally, I decided it was time to go back to school. I did and earned my MA in Teaching English as a Second Language.

After earning my degree I was ready for another adventure. I found a job in Finland and taught at the university of Turku for a couple of years. This was a huge challenge and a wonderful learning experience. While at the university, the idea of teaching Business English kept coming back to me so in 2002, I decided on a new adventure, going off to Stockholm to see if I could get a job doing just that.

As I stood there that day ready to begin my teaching career in Stockholm, I realized that this was the exact company and the exact location where my customer had been receiving English lessons many years before. It struck me how the plan had been unfolding the whole time without me even being conscious of it.

I've had a few of these experiences in my life and they have taught me the importance of being clear about what we want. As I've become stronger in myself, I've realized also how we can speed up the process of achieving our dreams by talking about what we want, writing about what we want and even living as if we already have what we want. This last one is key as it brings up the FEELINGS of having what you want - which helps the energy wrapped around your goal find you much more easily.

Sound a little spooky? Yeah, maybe. But I can tell you, that day as I realized the synchronicity of what had happened, I knew that I was EXACTLY where I wanted to be doing EXACTLY what I wanted to be doing. I also knew that with even more awareness of what I was choosing to focus on, pretty much anything was and IS possible.

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