the new “do it first” job application system, a.k.a. how everything i need magically comes to me.
I know I’m doing the right thing, when I see the universe helping out. And the author Karel right now is oh so grateful for gifts from the universe.
Those gifts are more ready than ever to come to us, courtesy of technology and a changing culture.
I need a book cover, so a beautiful one comes back from a great creative talent our in Pennsylvania, courtesy of a Facebook introduction. The cover comes first, the gift-from-god creator gets “hired” to do that and so much more afterwords. Conventional interview and hiring completely sidestepped. I value his work very much, so I’d love to pay; he enjoys doing it. If everything continues well for us, we have a long term relationship based on respect and trust, and if either one of us wants to change, of course it can’t be good for either of us.
I need marketing help, so not one but two talent marketers approach me, one through an unrelated chat with a friend, another finds my profile on linkedin and contacts me about something completely different. The only action I took is making sure that I asked that question “would you or anyone you know market my book” in most of my conversations, and this was natural, because the question was focus burned in the front of my attention.
I need press, so friends hook me up with authors and reports. And everyone is so busy, so who can pay attention to a new author. One wonderful reporter has the misfortune to feel under the weather, giving her the chance look at my book. The universe is net-happier when everyone gains.
All I’m doing is asking everyone I meet whether they know something about what I need. And I must be blessed with the most wonderful and talented people around me. But you know, hundred of people must also be surrounded by those very same talented people. Lucky all of them!
Social technology has dramatically changed the degree to which other people can allign with our own intention. Without it, could I have written a book in a summer, and sold dozens of copies of it a few months later, most to people I don’t know? I’ve heard it said that God operates in our lives through other people. Well, if so, God just got some big help.
We are all now empowered to “do it first”. We DO, and the universe responds to some degree or other. In Zuck and Steve Chen’s case, it responds with hundreds of millions of dollars and hundreds or millions of people helping out naturally in a multitude of ways. Or it doesn’t respond. My ptrades.com is hauntingly silent these days. So we DO again. Poke the universe and see, wait. Poke it again. Maybe in the same place. Repeatedly, with focus. Ask a friend to poke it from the other side. You have no control over what the universe does, so let go of the results. Just poke it again.
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