I Was Laid Off From My Job, Now What ?

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"These conversations are never easy but the company isn't doing well.

We have eliminated your position".

Just like that 10 years of service...gone!

Did I cry ? No...

Did I feel betrayed? Not really because we know by now how corporations operate.

I was more upset with myself because I should have jumped ship when the company was sold during the summer. I was job searching but I wasn't aggressively doing so.

If I'm completely transparent here, I was growing very exhausted from the work I had been doing (do to broken/lack of process) with zero support from management.

My frustrations had been mounting for at least a year.

What I learned about myself in this experience was, trust my gut feelings always, pay closer attention to myself once I no longer believe in a corporations new direction or vision, never ignore once I no longer have respect for management, the pit of my stomach sickness of dreading logging on the next day and living for Friday evenings. I listen to my intuition on everything else but I must listen even harder to that faint voice in my ear that summoned me... "It is time to go".

This past summer from June - August I invested in a self enrichment workshop that was life changing. Through this process we had to pick a number, that number gave us a principle. We had been instructed that whatever principal we selected via picking that number, we indeed had to acknowledge and work on that principle throughout the entire 12 week process.

"Acceptance", "what in the world do I need to do with this". I immediately thought! When I got this principal, I questioned it! "I am a person who accepts everything, WHY would I get such a principle to work on"is what I said aloud! I can express to you with all the Acceptance within me at the very moment, this word has taken on a brand new meaning in my life. So in true Hope fashion, I said "ok, this is what we are doing, let's do this".

I went to define via the etymology of the word. We hold space within a world that changes like a light switch so I wanted to really break down and understand getting the full affect.

It's amazing what you can allow in once you shut down your ego. I became available and committed to Acceptance. Once I did this my entire life shifted!

In this very moment, my life is still shifting because of the committment I made to myself on a soul level. Once I became complete in that moment about the work and understood fully what needed to happen, I asked, wrote and prayed that everything in my life that no longer served me in the now and future be released ! When we decree a thing to be so, be ready for what you declared. The takeaway that I want you to gather from this is everything that we pay so much attention too, their is so much more at scale. When and if you are experiencing a layoff at this time, please know that awareness in part is what is being presented to you but at a soul level. You are being challenged to change directions and explore on the inside and the outside. The closet thing to you energtically may be the very thing used to shift your life for growth. Trust me, its challenging at first but its's worth it!

The ego wants you upset and focused on things that are not beneficial to your next level within your evolution. Don't get me wrong, you have every right to feel a way about your livelyhood being taken away from you. It's the human thing to do. What I am expressing is don't stay upset for so long that you miss the lesson. During this time of being laid off, use this opportunity to accomplish new goals for your new chapter. Dust off the old goals or create some new goals. If you need to job search, still do that as well. If you have decided to go into business for yourself, do that. Layoffs come to teach us many leassons and offer us a new way to show up for ourselves, how will you embrace this new lease on time that you have been granted?!...