A good friend of my wife’s will be staying with us for the next three days while he helps her with a video shoot.
An amazing photographer, he has traveled to the world’s most dangerous hot spots, and occasionally his life has been in jeopardy.
He worked for one network for 25 years as a freelancer. A few months ago he was covering the story of a poor woman whose husband just had been killed. He was with a young, lightly experienced reporter who wanted to go inside the family home and observe the new widow’s response. Meanwhile, at this moment, the police inside were explaining what had happened.
Unabashed, the reporter insisted on forging inside even though her first journalistic job was merely one week old. Our friend strongly suggested her actions were inappropriate. Wait, he counseled, allow the victim’s wife to fully grasp the tragedy. The raw reporter insisted while our friend refused to go in.
It Was Over
When the new reporter recounted the incident to her bosses, our photographer friend was fired within 10 minutes. From that point, the network refused to acknowledge he ever had done any work for them. The messy ending cost him two more jobs he applied for. Prospective employers would not hire him because his former boss stunningly declined to admit he had worked for them even though the truth was known.
Eventually, he hired on with a television station, and everyone was excited.
Placing in storage what he did not need, he moved to a new apartment. Within a month, though, he was abruptly let go again. The photographer he succeeded was returning because his cancer was in remission.
Unable to afford his apartment, he lived in his car. He had lost all hope. The nagging downward spiral meant he would be living on the streets.
Don’t make the mistake many do in this kind of pinch, focusing on what you do not want, I told him. Don’t allow the negative situation to weigh you down. See in every detail the work and the job he wanted as well as the place he would live, what he would wear down to the stitching on his clothing.
He promised to take my advice to heart. Within one week of changing what he was visualizing, he found employment with another network and still is there.
A New Idea
A client recently gave me an idea about how to think positively. Imagine, my client said, that the only way you get what you want is to let a committee who does not speak English decide what you get. Everything hinges on the image you convey to the committee. Obviously it would be better to send the “committee” the image of what you do want instead, not a vague assumption.
Simple process. Very powerful. When you combine this kind of positive thinking with the strength of subconscious visualization, you can be 100 percent sure that you will gain the image that you want. It may take time, you understand.
I encourage each of my readers to think positively, to remember that whatever the job, love it as much as you can. As they always say, “When you are doing the job you love, you never work a day in your life.”
Do not hesitate to contact me by telephone, 310.204.3321, or by email at nickpollak@hypnotherapy4you.net. See my website at www.hypnotherapy4you.net
