This weekend, March 31st, I’ll be celebrating an important anniversary: The day I submitted my resignation letter to my former supervisor back in 2016.
I remember the months, weeks, and days leading up to that moment. In fact, on January 1st, I set the intention to move into my consulting business full-time starting June 1st, 2016.
At the time, I didn’t have any clients as I had finished up my client work at the end of 2015 and had no clue where the next client would come from. I just knew that it would happen.
For two years, I had set a deadline for me to leave my job, only for those deadlines to come and go, leaving me increasingly frustrated with myself because I hadn’t met my internal deadline.
I’m not sure why 2016 felt like the time to make the leap, but it just felt right. On New Year’s Day, I had gone to the One World Trade Center Observation Deck. As I looked over the New York City skyline, I felt good about 2016 being the year I would do it. I thought about how it would feel to walk out of my work building for the final time on May 31st, knowing that the next day would be a new journey for me. Again, I didn’t have any clients lined up, though I knew that everything would somehow work itself out.
While I still showed up at my job, I had already mentally checked out of where I was. While I did worry about what would happen if no clients showed up, but I challenged myself to only dwell on the end result and not on how it would all happened.
When I got the inspiration to do something towards my goal, I did it. I submitted a proposal for a consulting job with a former client, who ended up choosing another consultant. I let it go, thinking that there will be more opportunities to come. A few days later, the same client offered me another consulting position on the same project, only this time the skillset needed was a better match for me. Around the same time, I spotted a job announcement on a listserv I’m on. Instead of applying for the job, I contacted the person who shared it and asked if the job could be done on a contract basis. I heard back 3 weeks later, with the person asking me if I were still interested in working with them as a contractor, as the person they hired ended up not being able to take the position. Around the same time, I went to a training where I met a woman who was a graduate of my MSW program and the executive director of a New York City-based organization. She knew of me through a mutual friend, and offered me a consulting contract on the spot. All three consulting opportunities were finalized on March 30. I went home that evening, typed up my resignation letter, and gave to my supervisor the next day. I stayed on at my job to help hire and train my
I didn’t realize it at the time, but I was “living in the end”. “Living in the end” is a concept popularized by Neville Goddard where he states that our thoughts should be in alignment with the vision we’re holding in our mind. The focus is not only on what we think we’ll see once we get to the
As I approach Year Four of full-time consulting, I reflect back on that moment of staring out at the New York City skyline, resting in the knowing that it was time. I knew there would be highs (hitting the ground running in Year One) and lows (hitting several speed bumps in Year Two), but that I would eventually hit my stride (as I’ve mostly experienced in Year Three).
Whether it’s submitting your last student loan payment, walking down the aisle, or walking out of your office building for the final time, we’ve all had moments where we’ve accomplished a goal that once seemed far away or even impossible. But when we live in the end, we allow the HOW to reveal itself to us. The one action that seemed insignificant at the time just may end up being the catalyst needed to propel us to our final destination.
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