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A couple of weeks ago I bought a copy of the eBook by Wendy Betterini called Visualize Prosperity. This post is a quick review of that eBook and the 2 bonus items that come with it when you buy.

Background

I have been a regular reader of the Wendy’s blog Creation Thoughts for several months now. I can’t remember how I came across it but I have always enjoyed the articles which are all written in an easy, straightforward and helpful way. The subject of the blog is the Law of Attraction and how to make the most of that law for the conscious creation of the life we want.

What Is The Ebook All About ?

The ebook is in the same easy-going style focusing on using Visualisation as a means of attracting more prosperity into our lives.

There are 59 pages in this book and it is broken down into a number of chapters. The bulk of the book, as we would expect from the title, is a series of visualisation exercises. However, before getting to that point, the author discusses the benefits of visualisation as a way of making changes to our unconscious habits and beliefs. Continue Reading »

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As you will understand from the title, this is part 4 (and the final part) of a series of posts describing my escape from the corporate cubicle. Please read the first three parts if you would like the full story. Here are the links to the earlier episodes of this drama !

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3

My Dream Interpretation

That was it - that was what I remembered of my dream. When I woke up I thought it was odd that I had remembered this dream but I really didn’t think much about it. It was only the following day that I suddenly realised what it was all about - and it hit me with some force !

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When I relate my interpretation now, it seems a bit weak and not really very clear or obvious, but at the time, it felt like a revelation !

The 3 people who were killed represented the 3 day week arrangement that I wanted at work. That arrangement had to be killed off. That was the main point. The other aspects of things slipping and being unsafe in the current situation were not as strong. But if I wanted to build something substantial and solid in my life, the 3 day week needed to go. The job at the bank needed to go. It was time for me to break out on my own.

Going It Alone

I spoke to Linda, my manager, and told her I was thinking of leaving. She was great and said that if I wanted to talk it through with her, without any pressure, she would be willing to do that. We did have a talk but by then I had become clear in my own mind that I was going to leave. I handed my resignation in and left a month later. That was May 2005.

I had no business plan, no other sources of finance and I felt Fantastic. I KNEW I was doing the right thing. After 17 years in the corporate world I was on my own, responsible for myself, free of the politics of corporate life and having to do things I didn’t agree with. I felt like I was coming into my integrity. I felt like I was growing up. I felt free.

I do not have any regrets about leaving at all. I miss some of the social side of work and meeting lots of new people. However, my life is so much richer now. I may not be earning as much money now as I was then but, I tell you, the life I have now is so much better, so much more me and allows me the freedom to live the way I want to without feeling chained to that cubicle and all it represented.

Observations From My Experience

Here are a few thoughts about what I learned from this experience. Continue Reading »

As you will gather from the title, this is part 3 of a series of posts describing my escape from the corporate cubicle. Please read part 1 and part 2 first if you would like the full story.

A Slow Start

Given that my homeopathy practice was slow to take off and my finances were a little strained, having done a 3 day a week work pattern for a year, I agreed to go back to work at the bank for 4 days a week again. This was OK. It seemed like the right decision and I did not resent this one bit. I was just disappointed that my homeopathy business had not taken off in the way I had hoped.

A Big IT Project

At this time in my career at the bank I was given a large and time critical project to deliver. I had a great team and, over the course of 3 months or so, we did all the necessary work and completed the project successfully on time and under budget. Great !! And, I knew that I could not do this type of work forever. I wanted to develop my homeopathy practice and do more of something I felt was more worthwhile so I asked to reduce my hours at the bank again.

The Dream

Photo by Martin Pettitt

My manager could not agree to my request due to my responsibilities and said she needed to do a reorganisation in the department in which she would find me a 3 day a week post. I was happy with this arrangement until I had a dream.

Now, I do not often remember my dreams. However, one night around this time I had a clear dream which I remembered the following morning and the story of it has stayed with me ever since.

In my dream I was looking at a building site. On this land a huge, immensely tall building was being constructed. It was at the early stages of construction and there was just a skeleton of girders there. On the ground there were people, machinery, mounds of earth and all sorts of construction materials.

There was a massive crane hoisting the final girders up to the highest point of the building. Two long metal girders were being lifted in a loop of chain. The steel girders were just balanced in this loop of chain. Nothing else secured them. As the crane moved I could see these steel girders start to slip. I was too far away to do anything apart from watch as these two long, heavy steel girders slipped and fell to the ground. As they came crashing down, I could see that 3 people on the ground had been killed.

Next time I’ll tell you about how I interpreted the dream.