I just [finally] finished reading Carolyn Myss’s Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential.

In her previous works, Myss, a self-described medical intuitive, has posted that failure to understand your life’s purpose can manifest as mental or physical illness (depression, anxiety, disease). She wrote this book with the intent of helping others discover their own Sacred Contract, by which she means the theory that our souls enter into a “contract” before birth wherein we agree to have various experiences and encounter certain people in order to learn lessons. Discovering your Sacred Contract would presumably answer the age-old question: What is my life’s purpose?
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My last experiment with intention-manifestation was a smashing success, and I’d like to try another community experiment if anyone’s interested in playing along. This round of the experiment will run from August 1 to August 31. (Any interest in doing a longer time frame next time around, maybe September 1 to December 31?)

Here’s a refresher on how to participate:

• Find a place to be alone. (You’ll need a pencil and a piece of paper.)
• Close your eyes, take a few deep breaths, and relax.
• Look inward and ask yourself you’d like to achieve/manifest by August 31.
• Open your eyes and start writing ideas as they come to you.
• Once you have a few possibilities, select the one that you feel most passionately about. It also needs to be something you can truly believe in.
• Write a specific goal statement, which ends with “Make it so!”
• Read your statement out loud with as much feeling and conviction as possible. Feel that mental “click” as you DECIDE to achieve your goal.
• Leave a comment or send me an email to let me know that you’re participating (you don’t have to disclose your goal).
• Be on the watch throughout the month of August for the manifestation of your goal. It may not appear in the form you’re expecting…
• Report back and let us know how you did!

My goal is to receive $500 from sources other than my salaried income by August 31, 2008. Make it so!

I wanted to try a money goal not because I need $500, but because needing money in order to feel “secure” is something that holds me back from pursuing writing full-time. It’s hard for me to contemplate leaving a regular paycheck for the uncharted (and potentially unpaid) waters of the writing profession. Knowing that I can “manifest” money would be a huge confidence boost when it comes to taking the plunge and quitting the old day job!

What goal did you choose and why?

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As I mentioned last week, I’ve been offered and have accepted a paid writing position. (By the way, today is the final day of the Community Experiment. Any results to report? Email or comment to let me know!) I’m extremely excited about this opportunity, and I absolutely cannot wait until the administrative boxes have all been checked and I can get started with the actual writing. It feels so good to know that I’ll be getting paid to do something I love!

Even though getting paid to write has been a goal of mine for YEARS, I might not have been as excited about this opportunity if it had arisen a year ago. As a matter of fact, I might have walked away from it. Why on earth, you may rightly ask, would I have been anything less than thrilled about a paid writing opportunity? What possible reason would I have had for ignoring it or turning it down?
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Last week’s Question of the Week addressed the idea of the “forever job”, by which I mean a job that is aligned with your purpose and is a perfect fit for you, now and always. When I answered the question, I noted that–while I’m not convinced that there’s a “forever job” out there for me–I do believe that I have a “forever purpose”, a single message that I’m here to express in this life. Put simply, my message is “You can do it!”–or more accurately, “WE can do it!” (After all, I want to help me too!)

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Ladies (and gents, if you’re out there), prepare to have your mind blown…

Do you remember the Community Experiment I started on July 1? The idea was that I (and any of you who played along) would set an intention to achieve something by July 31. At the end of the month, we’d check in and see what had manifested in our lives in response to that intention. I thought about setting an intention to manifest $1 million…

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…but I decided to stick with something more realistic and believable. My intention was to secure a paid writing assignment unrelated to my full-time job by July 31, 2008.

Funny story.
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