Abundance Unleashed by Christian Mickelsen

Author:Christian Mickelsen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hay House
Published: 2016-07-21T04:00:00+00:00

THE GIFT AND THE PRICE

If we don’t work on these stories from our past, they continue to shape us as adults. When I was in my early twenties, I started my own business—Giftastic—selling gift cards, but I wasn’t putting much energy into it. I was afraid of taking the steps I needed to take to make it a success—cold-calling was a big one. I also had a full-time job in manufacturing, which I didn’t like at all and didn’t feel I was very good at. I felt lost and unmotivated. Every day I spent in that job, a small part of me died inside.

As time progressed and I became more discouraged about the job and my business, I started feeling weak emotionally and, eventually, after a year with the company, I attracted the attention of the company bully, Charles. He was a like a shark who could smell blood in the water. He’d never messed with me until one day, when I was feeling at my weakest, Charles made an L with his thumb and index finger, held it up to his forehead, and called me a loser in front of everyone at work. I felt such shame and embarrassment. One time was bad enough. But he held that L up to his forehead every single day—in front of my co-workers, in front of a girl I liked, in front of my boss. I didn’t know what to say or do.

I was so miserable that I knew I had to get the heck out of there. The pain of being at work with Charles was worse than the pain of doing the things I was frightened of doing to make my business successful. I had to make my business work. So I hired my first success coach to help me, and I started taking action. Every day, consistently, I took care of the tasks I needed to for my business to succeed. I worked at my job from nine to five and on my gift-card business in the evening and on weekends. I started getting stronger on the inside again. And then, one day, Charles, perhaps sensing my inner strength, simply stopped harassing me. Once again, when you change inside, the outer world also changes.

If I’d stayed stuck in the story of how painful my job was, and stayed immersed in my insecurities about my ability to succeed, I might never have gotten out. We’ve all been through tough stuff, some more than others, but we don’t have to be owned by the story. Everything that happens to us has a gift and a price. Charles’s bullying was extremely painful. The gift was that I felt so terrible, I was forced to do something about my life. I ended up quitting my job, working for myself, and eventually becoming a success coach myself. Charles’s motivating me to follow through on this path has led me to some of my greatest success and happiness.

The gift was well worth the price of the pain, but I don’t need to continue paying the price forever.

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