Not Setting For Less

What an interesting synchronicity this week. As I was preparing for my teleseminar this past week, Manifest More Rather Than Settle For Less, an interesting situation came up to "test me"....to see if I walked my talk.
 
So here's what happened...
 
Last weekend, I receive a call from a literary agent about possibly authoring/so-authoring a book for a large publishing company. Wow! I thought. What a fantastic opportunity!
 
So the first things I'm experiencing as I learn about this is a feeling of gratitude to the Universe for presenting such an opportunity. In the past, I would have been immediately negative about it..either thinking that I wasn't good enough, or even worse, purposefully NOT celebrating (with gratitude) because it wasn't already a SURE thing.
 
Does that sound familiar to you at all? Do you ever experience anything similar?
 
At the same time I was celebrating the opportunity, I needed more information. Almost immediately, I asked myself, "Am I attached to this opportunity working out?" The answer was NO. I knew from all the study in the Law of Attraction that being attached to a particular outcome actually pushes it and similar opportunities away from you. It repels it.
 
I knew this was a test for me. In the past I would be worried about failing or worried about things not working out in my favor, so I'd be attached to the outcome. I understood the power of having a publisher ask me to write a book (as opposed to me pitching a book to them), so it would have been easy to get attached to being published.
 
So this is what I did. I asked for more information to see if it was a fit. I wrote a biography as they requested, based on my expertise and the best fit I saw possible. When the editor wrote back with a more precise description of what he was looking for, it was clear to me that although I definitely COULD have written the book no problem (it wouldn't have been hard to do the research and then write it), I realized that I didn't WANT to write it. Thus it wasn't a good fit.
 
Do you get what I'm saying?
 
I quickly released a very good opportunity that many others would have thought was CRAZY to give up. The literary agent even gave me another opportunity to rewrite my biography so it would better fit the description of what the editor wanted. But instead, I just turned it down...and referred them to a dear colleague of mine who WOULD have been a better fit for them.
 
Why did I so quickly nullify a fabulous opportunity? And what is the lesson for you?

I am committed to the highest resonance, the highest vibration. Had I forced myself to write a book I was not passionate about, I would have been out of sync with my vibration - I would have lowered it in fact. I would have proven to the Universe that I was willing to settle for less.
 
And I'm not willing to settle for less. Not any more. And neither should you.
 
That's the lesson.
 
In the act of LETTING GO of this valuable opportunity, what I was actually doing was MAKING SPACE (see Chapter 6 in Creating Your Fairytale Love Life) for something even bigger or better to replace the void. One of the steps in harnessing the law of attraction to manifest your dream partner is making space for that person.
 
And how do I feel? Well, the old "me" would have felt like I lost something. But who I am today sees things differently. I practice shifting out of scarcity thinking (i.e. there isn't enough opportunity out there) to abundance thinking (i.e. there are plenty of opportunities out there!).
 
Can you feel the difference?
 
There are other publishers. There are other book deals. There is a better time for all this. There is a better fit. I'm not worried about it. I'm just quickly moving on....in gratitude.
 
And I'd advise YOU to move on as well, especially if you're currently in a relationship that isn't fully resonating with you and you've explored all the reasons why you manifested this person in the first place - what were you supposed to learn?
 
So here are the gold nugget gifts I received from this amazing experience and I thank the Universe for it's in bringing it to me in it's mysteriously wonderful way!
 
1. The work I'm doing is of value and is being noticed.
2. I was able to celebrate and be non-attached simultaneously.
3. I was able to see how easy it was to let go compared with my past experiences. Yeah!
4. I established new relationships in a field where I had no prior direct contacts (literary agents, publishers)
5. This was a sign that things were expanding in alignment with my vision of what I wanted to create/manifest in my life.
6. I now had teaching material for this blog!
 
When I posted what happened on FaceBook, a friend commented, "You must have a lot of faith." I thought about what she said and concluded:
 
Yes. Yes I do.
 
That is what my wish is for you too.

Blessings,
Dr. Karen Kan