Settle for your short-term security or...
Poetry Oracle: Week of August 7th
Welcome back to the Self Love Confidential Poetry Oracle, where the universe sends you the message you need to hear right now by way of a poem from one of my books.
If you’re ready to step beyond your comfort zone and into your dreams, this week’s Oracle is for you.
“Settle for your
Short-term security or…
…Nurture your
Long-term vision.”
The Shift: Poetry for a New Perspective.
This poem pair from The Shift was born of a realization I had during a deep, guided meditation in January of 2021, when I gifted myself two days alone in a luxury hotel a few miles from my house. I booked a room at The Proper with a very clear goal: it was time to decide whether I would keep running multiple businesses as a solopreneur, or would I instead sign a book deal and focus exclusively on being an author and poet. Both sides had their appeal: being an entrepreneur meant maintaining a steady income while serving a community of people I deeply treasured, while being an author full-time meant honoring my highest calling. When I stepped into that beautiful (but empty — peak pandemic!) hotel on January 3rd 2021, I didn’t know which one to choose, but I was sure I could no longer keep adding jobs on top of jobs like I had been for the last decade. It was time to choose something, and by that I mean, it was time to let something go.
View from my desk during my solo vacation at The Proper in Santa Monica, January 3-4, 2021.
The meditation I did was the free Clarity Exercise by To Be Magnetic, and it is something you could use to achieve clarity, too. I’ve also subscribed to TBM in the past and it was a highly effective tool for me to revisit some deeply embedded narratives and reprogram them. I highly recommend trying it (especially on Tuesday — see below!). But I digress.
During the meditation I reached a critical realization: many of my decisions during the prior decade had been fueled by my authenticity, but were nonetheless tethered to my need for financial security. I was never willing to double down on anything because I was afraid of giving up my safety net. When most people get a new job, they let go of the old one. Not me. I had four jobs at once: resume writer, Self Love Pinky Ring purveyor, self-published author of multiple books and mom of three, which is probably the biggest job of all. When the guided meditation asked me to envision myself in a space where I was honoring my highest calling, I found myself on a stage sharing my books and my message. I wasn’t the most successful entrepreneur in the world. I was me being me.
From my journal. “Money is not security. Big moves are security. Stop choosing small money over big moves.”
I wrote these words in my journal after the meditation and they have fueled my decisions ever since. They also inspired the poem that now lives in The Shift. I am no longer sacrificing my long-term vision for my short-term security. Now, while I am passionate, young, capable and energized, is the time to make the big moves that pull my dreams into my reality. I’ve been operating using this principal ever since, and if you’re here, you’ve witnessed the results. But what about the money, you wonder? It has come and it will come. I cannot let it be the driving force of my decisions anymore. How was I able to make this switch? I got a lot more comfortable with the unknown. I don’t know exactly what comes next — but I do know that the decisions I am making are aligned with my truth, my highest calling, and my richest potential. The unknown used to keep me were I was. Now the unknown pulls me towards where I need to go.
Tuesday, August 8th (8/8) is the Lion’s Gate Portal, which is an astrologically potent time to seek clarity and begin manifesting. What does your long-term vision look like, and how are you willing to commit to it today? I believe sharing your vision with others out loud is the best way to claim it. Leave a comment so I can send affirming energy your way.