A few weeks ago I started taking a class. No, it is not a class that has anything to do my post-grad studies. It’s aside from that. It’s extra. Now, you may be asking (and with damn good reason), “Why, oh why, would you commit yourself to taking another class in addition to the many, many classes that you need to finish the THREE post graduate degrees that you are currently pursuing?” Good question. I don’t really have a good answer except to say that Ruppe wanted to do it and it sounded good to me.

Anyway… The class is about focusing on positive energy in order to get what you want. By identifying the situations in our lives that make us feel bad, we can, sort of rephrase the situation so that positive results are achieved. Wow. That doesn’t even make sense to me. Let me just cut to the chase:

I need a car.
Phrasing it like that evokes a certain emotional response; one of need. By emitting a vibration of need, what I am attracting back is more need. You get what you give. Rather than focusing on needing a car, the thing to do is focus on having the car that I want. So, today, I did. I picked out my car, imagined that I already have it, and focused on the emotions surrounding what it’s like to have that car; what it feels like to drive it; what it smells like.

I picked the Toyota Yaris; the Bayou Blue one. Her name is Blithe (which means joyful, merry, carefree). She gets 40 mpg and is extremely cute. I copied a picture and set it as the wallpaper on my desktop. I spent the entire day imaging smooth shifting and tight steering… loud music and air conditioning. It was exhilarating. I was entirely blissed out. We were taught in class not to worry about, or try to plan how we will bring our goals to fruition. All of that would take care of itself so long as we were emitting positive, high vibrations. So, any time any thought crept into my head about how in the hell I was going to afford such a shiny new thing, I simply looked at the picture and said, “This is my car”, and once again put myself behind the wheel.

This afternoon, only about 4 or 5 hours after deciding that Blithe is my car, I got a phone call. It was a man from a company I had interviewed with a couple of times. They hadn’t gotten back to me after the 2nd interview, so I had kind of assumed that they found someone else and just didn’t bother to call and let me know. Not so. He offered me the job. Here’s the really interesting part: the difference between my current salary and the salary I was offered today is almost exactly the cost of the car that I chose. In short, if I changed nothing about my spending habits, I could pay for Blithe inside of one year.

Coincidence? Perhaps. Stay tuned.

So, the job: The job is CAD Manager at a Landscape Architect/Environmental Consulting firm that has global reach and a pretty impressive record of building sustainably. I will be well compensated and have mucho time off since they are in the habit of working 9 hour days and making every other weekend a 3-dayer. Not to mention the fact that every hour I work overtime will be comped as vacation. *ding* [that’s the noise my smile makes.] More on this later.