How I Retired At 41 - Part 3

The power of intention is real, my friends.

I’ve recognized it for most of my life.

As far back as middle school, friends would often comment about how things ‘just happen’ for me. Coincidences appeared too often for me to believe them random.

I didn’t know what it was called back then – manifestation, law of attraction, I just knew that it worked.

Not always in the way I’d imagined, but fate seemed to play a big part in my life.

I remember sitting at the dinner table with my family when I was just starting high school.

My sister said something like ‘you’d better get used to it, you’ll be there for 5 years’. (Back then, where I grew up there was a grade 13 if you planned to attend University).

I declared that I would only be at my high school for 4 years, because I would be going to Spain as an exchange student for one of them.

They laughed at me.

We weren’t part of a service organization and we certainly didn’t have the money to jet off to a foreign land to study.

But, lo and behold, I won a scholarship for a yearlong exchange anywhere in the world I wanted to go for my Grade 12 year.

Spain was replaced with Switzerland, but the outcome was the same.

Manifestation at its finest.

So, when I decided to get fired from my job, I put the intention out to the universe but also made some plans in the background.

I wouldn’t do anything illegal and wanted to leave my employer on good terms, so I had to leave the details up to the Universe.

I had worked at my company for 15 years.

I held many different roles and knew a little about a lot of things. I knew the people well and liked them. We were all just doing our best.

But the endless red tape and politics to manoeuvre in order to achieve anything at all were exhausting to me.

I was ready for something new, where I would be in charge of my own destiny.

But I was afraid.

The security of a job was comfortable. I knew when and how much I would be paid. My children and I had benefits. I had a daily routine.

I was waiting for a sign that the time had come to leave. It would have been irresponsible to simply quit without a fall back plan. And I was very responsible.

I was also unsure in which direction I wanted my life to go, so I enlisted the help of Life Coach Bill.

I had done a lot of therapy to get through the country song times, but now it was time to design the life I wanted.

The options were overwhelming and Bill helped me narrow things down and focus on what I truly wanted vs what was expected of me. Bill’s methods were centred around the Law of Attraction. He was my kind of people.