Missed Opportunity or a Different Drummer?

By Marilyn Jenett

On a social media forum, an independent web designer once shared an experience she had. She was personally referred for a job opening in a large national company headquartered near her city. She felt that she practically had the job wrapped up, but she needed to schedule a time to visit the recruiter and provide her resume.

Weeks went by and she didn’t do it and when it was too late, she experienced the anxiety of having missed a great opportunity and jumping on “such a hot ticket.” The pay was outstanding – more than she had ever made in her entire career. The job would allow her to gain greater skill and knowledge, she would have a stamp of approval from a well-known and established company, and it would skyrocket her credibility.

But then a few days later, it hit her. All of the things she had hated about being a past employee in the “corporate culture” and what it had done to her personality – it all came back to her. She visualized herself doing this new job and didn’t want to go down that path again. And she would have to juggle her personal client work at the same time.

So, she said she subconsciously must have realized all of these things when she didn’t jump on it sooner.

But she asked on the forum:

Have any of you experienced a missed opportunity like this? What were you thinking at the time? What did you do and what was the result? Do you regret your decision, and why?

I took great interest in her situation because I felt that many other growing entrepreneurs have probably experienced the same thing. And I thought it was a perfect opportunity to share my views on the subject…

Missed Opportunity – Not!

I believe she was wrong about one thing she stated:

This wasn’t a missed opportunity. At the deeper level of her spirit — her intuition — she knew she would not be happy in a structured situation again. She didn’t analyze at that time — she didn’t have to because she was being intuitively guided. It helps to analyze it after the fact, but the fact was that this was not her perfect opportunity. Big name, salary, resume — those are not required for our happiness.

I have had opportunities come to me in the past and I didn’t follow through because I knew in my heart of hearts I would not be happy. I did not want to compromise.

Being true to yourself is one of the greatest blessings one can have. And if you can be true to yourself at times when outer appearances suggest that you must be insane based on what seems “rational,” then I think the blessing becomes far greater.

Now, if you can be true to yourself and yet develop the kind of faith to drive you to where you are truly happy in your work or play — that’s beyond a blessing. That’s nirvana.

One of my early students wanted to manifest her ideal job and ideal salary. She did. So it seemed. Everything appeared to be perfect. It was the big corporate opportunity that she waited for, for a very long time. But she was in pain. Her stomach hurt, she wanted to cry. Her physical body was telling her something. She said that still small voice of intuition was “screaming” at her. She asked me if it was right to turn down an opportunity that the Universe had brought her, especially while applying my prosperity lessons.

I gave her my thoughts about it, without telling her what to do. She alone would have to make the decision, based on her intuition, not her rational mind. Here are my thoughts which I later incorporated into the lesson material of my Feel Free to Prosper® program…

Should I Accept Everything the Universe Brings?

You do not have to accept every opportunity that presents itself. Follow your intuition and listen to your feelings and your body symptoms. I believe that sometimes options arrive so that you know you have a choice or so that you can make a clearer choice about what you really want and what you don’t want. By having other options to choose from, you will always know that you didn’t miss the chance. I also believe that the right decision always feels peaceful.

When we step out in faith to release the lesser, the greater will appear.

Also, sometimes you attract results that may be the effect from an earlier cause, perhaps before you were doing the prosperity work. Just know…the work you are doing now to create new causes will result in new effects — the ones you really want.

The result for this student? She turned down the “big opportunity” and three weeks later, out of the blue, she got a three-month contract job with Disney Studios for her writing skills. THAT was the perfect opportunity for her at that time.

Different Drummer? Yes!

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. —Henry David Thoreau

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Marilyn Jenett, renowned prosperity mentor and accomplished entrepreneur, founded the Feel Free to Prosper® program to mentor and teach others to become aligned with Universal laws and accept their right to prosper. For more information and her free gift, visit www.FeelFreetoProsper.com.

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