| A few years after becoming professionally qualified as | | | | The next few days were a mix of worry over the |
| a management accountant in the UK, I had an | | | | financial consequences of what I had done, and the |
| opportunity to move to what seemed a great job. It | | | | excitement of thinking "I don't have any idea what is |
| was in a lovely part of the country with some | | | | going to happen next". As a keen traveller in my |
| attractive properties, in idyllic villages. All seemed | | | | younger years, I had always loved the idea of not |
| perfect, and my years of hard work were about to | | | | knowing where I would be the next day. But this was |
| reap just reward. | | | | playing with fire; a wife and two children to support, a |
| However, after I met my future boss for the second | | | | brand new and very high mortgage. |
| time, my intuition told me it was not going to work out. It | | | | Quickly, the positive thoughts took over, and I began to |
| was a powerful bout of negative intuition, which | | | | tell myself I would get an even better job; not just any |
| happens quite rarely in my life. I felt physically quite sick | | | | job, but one that was better paid than the job I had just |
| as my stomach told me, in no uncertain terms, that I | | | | resigned from. Despite the severe financial pressure, |
| should not take the new job, despite the higher salary, | | | | my mind was most focused on the positive, although I |
| excellent benefits, and superior location. | | | | do admit that, in the UK winter, my body was reeling a |
| Against my better judgement, I took the job. I set off | | | | bit from the stress. |
| south from Cambridgeshire, where we lived at the | | | | I could not actually see that I would be without a job |
| time, lacking the excitement and anticipation you | | | | for long, and that was what kept me going. I turned out |
| normally associate with finding a "better" job. Within | | | | to be right. I did get a better job, and in two quick |
| only two weeks, I knew my gut instinct had been right. I | | | | moves of employment, had increased my income |
| knew I had to act quickly, otherwise the following | | | | significantly. |
| weeks and months would be a nightmare. I scribbled | | | | With hindsight, I could so easily have gone a long time |
| out my resignation letter Friday lunch time, and drove | | | | unemployed. Whatever your qualifications, getting a job |
| over 100 miles home. | | | | in the UK at over 35 was not easy. However, the |
| Home was a house we had not lived in for long, with a | | | | positive thoughts won in the end. |
| new and high mortgage; our second child had only just | | | | That experience, and those recalled in the two |
| arrived. I had no job and no income any more. As I | | | | previous articles, are just three major examples of |
| drove home, my mind was in a whirl, swaying between | | | | where positive thinking has played a major part in my |
| "Thanks to God" that I am away from there, and a | | | | life. Whether or not you can agree that positive thinking |
| dark shadow of financial disaster hanging over me. | | | | could have played a part in those events, will depend |
| Intermingling with those extremes, though, was a sense | | | | on your own belief. However, they are three reasons |
| of excitement; without a job or income, what was | | | | why positive thinking is now an every day part of my |
| around the corner? Where would I be in a month's | | | | life. |
| time? | | | | |