The subject line of the email dated 1/2/10 read: OH MY GOD…I JUST GOT A LETTER THAT I THOUGHT WAS FROM YOU… and it was from Erica Green, a client who has become a dear friend.
In many of my Mastermind and Transitions groups, I have the participants write a letter to themselves at our last session. The instructions are to create a vision of their future by writing the letter as though what they hope to achieve has already happened. Putting your goals in writing is the A-#1 tool for accomplishing them.
The date is six months to a year away, which was the case with Erica’s letter. She had written it in June. I tucked hers, and everyone else’s from that group, into my December tickler file to be mailed at year’s end. That was what Erica found in her mailbox Saturday morning. This is her response:
I just came home from my morning walk that I started in the dark and opened the mailbox. What? An envelope from Jane? [I put all of my clients’ letters in my business envelopes.] A bill perhaps? I must owe her more money because the benefits of our time together are exponential. And I miss seeing and talking with her.
I was startled by the script on the letterhead. It didn’t look like your handwriting and then again it did. (Our handwriting is somewhat similar and your style, in more ways than one, feels very familiar.)
I kept looking at it. But is says “Dear Erica”? Finally I figured it out! I wrote this so long ago that I forgot about it and from a very different place. WOW! I haven’t even had time to process what I just read and I am flabbergasted!
You cannot believe the power of my letter to myself…or, more importantly, my intentions. I wrote so beautifully and lovingly to myself. And my actions far exceeded anything I could have imagined on that day in June.
You brought it out in us and me especially. Wow.
On November 12 of last year Erica debuted her Big Connect the dream she had been imagining for years and had come to my group to realize. She sure did.
Dear Bonnie,
It is 2010. You have a clean slate to find your full time dream job,or get your design bussiness to support you. Your new job is waiting and they need you. Keep trying to find them. You are bright, hard working , and worthy.
Do your best at the job coach and keep your options open.
God and the the angels will help you every step of the way. I know you can do it.
Keep praying and keep looking.
@Bonnie
I see you got right into the spirit of this. Next step is to set the date a year from today — January 2011 — and tell yourself exactly what job you’re pursuing in exquisite detail. The more you can imagine and detail it, the more likely the Universe will supply it to meet your requirements. Thanks for writing!