Last year I attended a workshop and was cursed by one of the speakers, who will remain nameless for legal reasons. Now I realise she didn't mean to curse me, but we have a saying amongst my people – don't wash your mouth on me: meaning don't say bad things about what might happen to me in case it comes true. It’s similar to the idea behind why some people say “touch wood”.
Anyway, I was at this millionaire’s women's boot camp when up pops this nameless celebrity, with a new eastern philosophy for why her life suddenly took a turn for the worst. Apparently it all had to do with a thing called a 9 star key, which consists of a cycle of nine years going from being in the trough struggling, to excelling to your highest heights, reaching a plateau and then back down to the trough. According to this viewpoint, what year you are in is determined by your year of birth, kind of like the Chinese Zodiac system. Yes you’ve guessed it. My 50th year, my glorious 50th year, was my trough year!
I recall thinking at the time "Well thanks a lot nameless celebrity (actually I said her name). Here's me planning a new career, a new lease of life and you just go and washed your mouth on me".
Naturally I was determined that I was to going have a fabulous you. After all "The Secret" says is about your intention and what you attract to you that counts and more people have heard about "The Secret" so that must be right. Pooh-pooh to your little- heard –of, bad luck voodoo, nameless celebrity!
Unfortunately, try as I might this does seem to be the year of my trough. Every lesson I've learn seems to cost me dear in monetary terms and I've been rushing around wearing myself out like a busy fool for months, getting nowhere!
That leaves me with two choices. Give up, stay in the trough and celebrate like hell 31th December. Or stick with my initial thought i.e. "Pooh-pooh to your little- heard- of, bad luck voodoo, nameless celebrity!" and get on with it.
So I've decided. I'm on a quest. A quest for the elusive first customer, or should I say first paying customer (I’ve had lots of customers who have not paid -pro bono aka professionally broke). Now I'm looking for someone who's going to pay me money for what I have to offer. No more pretending it's all going, well it's not. I need to fix it from the bottom up. Chuck everything out and start again – well actually perhaps sieve through everything and sort the good from the not- this- time- sunny/lassie and build a fabulous sound business worthy of the FSTE 100.
The future is not set; it's what you make of it that matters. So each day I'm going to identify one thing that pours scorn on the notion that this is my trough year. Today it is my decision to make a change and get out of the rut. Now I wouldn’t have been able to do that if this was my trough year.
Have you ever defied fate? How do you keep bad luck at bay? I’d love to read about your experiences.
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