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Craig, you are so right! Even though I get very frustrated at times and wish I could close the door on that part of my life, I know I am not quite there yet. It is my own business that keeps me going and gives me something to look forward to. As most of our sales are done at shows on weekends, I look forward to each and every one as a new opportunity. This just keeps me plugging along. We never know from weekend to weekend what is going to happen, what new thing we will learn about or who we will meet. It somehow helps to make everything else a little more bearable. . .

Suppose we were to look at the idea of hating one`s job and not caring, from the perspective of harmonic resonation? This is the idea that whatever is taking your attention at any given moment, it`s part of your self--what you`re working on internally but don`t yet see directly.

In this process, you begin with the stipulation that EVERYthing in your life is all the same. It`s all part of you, your personality, personal traits, and beliefs.

Your job is part of you. You chose it, you were excited about getting it at one point, and you wanted it more than anything else. How could you hate it? What happened?

If you get really detailed, really specific about what exactly it is you hate about the job and write it down, you`ll find yourself looking at what you really hate about your whole life. Authors use this all the time, generating symbolic metaphors for what`s happening in the characters progress through the plot. It works because it`s real.

It puts a different spin on the idea that if you don`t like what you`re doing, change it! :-)

Same with facing a-holes. WHY are they a-holes? What specific character trait is repeating in your attention that grates on your nerves, bugs you to no end, and is taking more and more attention? That characteristic is almost assuredly somehing you yourself are doing, yet you don`t see it.

What`s interesting about the concept of the universe as energy and vibration is that as you begin to change yourself, "somehow" the world around you changes to conform. So as you change or remove whatever it is you think someone else is doing, "somehow" you discover shortly thereafter that they`re not in your life anymore. They`ve moved, you`ve moved, or things changed.