I actually began writing this post October 21, 2011, not realizing until now just how long this post has set in "draft" mode as well as my life right now being back in the spot where I was when this post idea originated: Time for change.
Where am I coming from? I'm coming from a point of where not having what you want, desiring more than you're actually turning out, and remaining in a limited restricting circle of influence that can't get you over to another spot, area, set that will bring greater opportunities for you to win big. This is where I coming from.
Notice this: If I actually started writing this post more than two years ago and I'm regretfully realizing that I am still in a most painful empty spot - then this post certainly suggests I've made a decision: I'm moving out of this spot. Someone else can occupy it now. I certainly have no use for it now or ever again. And as the title of this post suggests: I should have done it sooner rather than later.
I've given my all to others for as long as I can remember. There were times when giving was all I wanted and felt great doing it. But then what eventually occurred is depletion; Being totally overwrought with no reward of being refueled neither replenished. I am exhausted.
Want, unfulfilled desires, stress, pressure to deliver, over-compensating have all left me exhausted with no one standing ready to replenish what I've given. No one standing with a cold glass of water, neither is there a hot cooked meal beautifully served up on exquisite dinnerware waiting for me to dive right in for replenishment. I got noodles.
If the people you're standing with have nothing to compensate you for your work, if they have no profitable network of associates to introduce to you for further advancement, if they have nothing to offer you other than what you can offer yourself - it's time to expand your circle of 'affluence' rather than your circle of 'influence'. Influence does not always suggest good, great, positive, meaningful, etc. However, affluence always suggests a means for greater resources.
In order to acquire the things I need and want my navigational sphere has to lead me into greater resource opportunities and gain. I can never make it to the Ocean Club if I continue vibrating at this penniless level that affords me no more than the things I do not want neither serve me. I must extend my hand across the table to meet others that are already seated where I desire to sit. Just as I am valuable to myself, my family, my friends and my clients - then too, I am just as valuable to those who don't even know me and don't even know they need me as yet.
It isn't until I show up in my full authentic self, possessing and utilizing all the same gifting, skills, and knowledge that others are benefitting from and have immensely enjoyed for quite some time that newcomers (affluent) can see, benefit and enjoy while at the same time greatly compensate.
Doing it now requires me to redesign, rework, and recalculate my steps in order to reposition myself. Stepping out and away from the needs of others that have blocked greater resources from getting to me and vice versa is the second requirement. Now, I have to be visible to be attractive. I have to be seen to be asked. I have to be heard in order to be favored.
I have to do it sooner rather than later. And of course, I knew this was needed October 21, 2011 when I first started this post. SMH!
