If you have ever worked a job for wages, you have been jammed.

Trying to keep this email clean and that’s the nicest word I can use. But you know what I mean.

In my case, I had led a successful program for a year – shortstaffed and overworked and we delivered results better than anyone expected.

So when it came time to fill the “official” lead role, I thought it was in the bag.

As a friend of mine once cackled, “you thought wrong!”

They picked someone from outside the organization, with no experience.

But he checked a “box.” In this case, “disabled.”

Guy’s got 2 arms and 2 legs and don’t look disabled to me. But that’s another topic.

Then it turns out, the guy can’t figure his way out of an empty box – and has a personality disorder to boot!

Did they fire him and give me the job?

HAHAHHAHAHA.

No. The boss of bosses called me into his office and asked me to “keep an eye on him.”

Translated, that means keep doing the job you’ve been doing all along, AND make sure he doesn’t mess up in such a way it makes a mess.

It also meant, “take one for the team.”

So I did, because the pay is good and I have my business on the side that I’ve been building steadily.

But this kind of thing doesn’t last forever and the exit sign is blinking.

I am certain you have your own story, probably a handful.

After all the word “job” is Aramaic for “you’re screwed!”

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Sincerely,
Frank

Teachers show up when you’re ready. But they require you to be an active participant in the teaching.

It’s easy to think a teacher is going to show up and give you knowledge but it doesn’t work like that.

You have to use the initial gift and then do some work.

Ask questions, see if this lesson fits, is practical, etc. Then the teacher gives you some more.

An epiphany as a teacher is even more slippery. Sometimes they’re gone in a second and you say, that was weird. If you don’t pressure yourself to get something out of it, there’s no lasting impact.

What’s happened is that you’ve seen some fireworks on the inside of your mind, you watch and say oooh, and then it fades.

Letting them slip away is like refusing to go through an open door.

But because it was your own mind that produced the burst of realization, it might be that epiphanies can lead to the greatest leaps forward in our lives.

Again, you have to be willing to take the gift and run with it.

I saw a picture on the Internet this week that practically knocked me over when I realized the significance it had played in the lives of most of us.

In an instant, it explained a lot of my own behavior over the years – and also unlocked a key to understanding the behavior of those around me.

So the initial explosion resulted in me experiencing a great deal of peace.

And because I kept asking questions of this teacher – who’s lesson was over in a millisecond – I was able to unravel some principles in how to use it to create effective marketing.

The best part is that because it was kind of “spiritual” the marketing principles we can take from this are actually compassionate (as opposed to cheap manipulation).

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