Sometimes paths are blocked because they’re not for you. You want your life to be a certain way. On your job, you’re not promoted or paid as you believe you deserve to be. Opportunities are not afforded you. There is constant tension. You pursue an objective for many years and it doesn’t manifest. You have specific intentions. You do every single thing that you can think of to achieve a goal and don’t understand why it’s not attainable.
Maybe all of the doors that you’re knocking on are not meant for you. One door is wide open; but, you think, “I don’t want that door. That’s not in my plan. I didn’t envision that for myself.”
However, if this is the only door that is open, your choices are to stay where you are or to walk through that door. Personally, I’d rather see what’s on the other side than to keep doing what I’ve always done and to stay where I’ve always been, especially if I feel that my potential has been limited.
For me, it’s about trusting and having faith that, if this is the only door that is open, then this must be for me. I must have the courage to step through that door and into uncertainty.
Many times we want things that are not for us. The things that I put my highest effort towards were tangible things. I wanted a job that gave me a certain amount of money. When I switched to wanting intangible things, my life started changing very fast. Opportunities opened that I would never have considered, but decided to accept even though I didn’t know why they were being made available to me. I decided to just flow and say, “Wow! This is interesting. Let me go with this.”
Going through that door has not yet given me the money that I want or need. Nevertheless, I have received intangible experiences that matched my revised intentions: being around fluid, open, and friendly people; people who appreciate me and acknowledge my skills and potential. When I chased money, I was rarely validated or affirmed. I suppose I was around other people who were also primarily pursuing money and not really happy. They expressed their unhappiness. Being also unhappy, I was a receptive vessel.