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Karen. Yes, every once in
a while you think that you are really

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on the right path. You are
dead on, you're going, you're progressing

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perfectly. You have left behind all
the judgmental and egotistical kind of personality traits

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that you have. And that is
when a universe says, I am time

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for a gut check. Time for
not only a gut check, in an

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all round check. From personal experience, it's important to remember that we are

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all a work in progress, and
just when you think you've got it all

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figured out, that's the time to
realize you don't have anything figured out,

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because the universe is so much more
complex than we would possibly imagine. Well,

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I think that's when the ego kicks
in, you know, when you're

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like, oh, I've got it
figured out. I've made that called check

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because as humans, that's what we
want. We want to be able to

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reach that level or any level,
the next level. Yeah. Absolutely,

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I think there's like a it's like
a natural inclination to as you're getting good

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at something, you start thinking that
you're really good at something and well,

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maybe I should share a story that
just happened to me recently. A lot

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of people will remember us talking about
the fact that we are going through a

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tumultuous time in our professional lives.
The company that I worked for was going

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through a reorganization and my job was
eliminated, but I was invited to apply

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for these other positions that were there
within the organization, one of which was

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tailor made for me, or so
I thought. So I interviewed for two

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different positions, the one that was
tailor made for me and the one that

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I already had but with bigger responsibilities, and thought. I aced both interviews

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like I just crushed it. I
was so sure, I'm so convinced that

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I've got this job that I know
I'm perfect for and all that kind of

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stuff, only to learn more Nope, I got the other one. I

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got the one that I'm already doing
but with bigger responsibilities. But what happened

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when I was told I did not
get the other job that was Taylor made

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for me was such a punch in
the gut that I immediately fell back into

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the ego centered thought process, and
I was really upset. I remember that,

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yeah, like like really upset to
the point of you and I talked

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about resigning like I'm done, I'm
out of here. They don't appreciate me.

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And then and then I had a
special somebody remind me that I should

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probably reread The Surrender Experiment. Those
who don't know the book The Surrender Experiment,

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it is a fantastic book about the
importance of just trusting the universe and

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knowing that the universe is going to
put you in the best place possible.

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And for some reason, the universe
thought that that job was not the best

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place for me. And I think
going back, you could look at all

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of those reasons and see them glaring
at you and blinding light. But still

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maybe maybe that light blinded you because
you didn't see them. Well, what

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blinded me was my ego, because
suddenly I'm being rejected or denied a job

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that I thought I was perfect for, which would have been a promotion,

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and all I felt was betrayal.
Right, and that's all that I saw.

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But you're right going back with a
different perspective, mindset and looking at

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the potential, looking at the messages
that the universe has been sending me,

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it is glaringly obvious that if I
had accepted that other role, the direction

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that we want to head in,
we would not have been able to do

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absolutely not. And I think the
message is so interesting because you know,

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you work and you try really hard, and for us, we have been

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on this spiritual journey or quest and
you know you kind of feel like,

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Okay, I'm at this level,
but bam not really. Yeah, I

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think there's so many lessons there,
one of which obviously is surrender. Everything

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is going to work out the way
it's supposed to. The universe has better

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plans for you, and if you
trust the universe, they will take you

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to where you are supposed to be. Right. But then also, don't

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think that you are disconnected from ego
as much as you think you are,

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because the act of becoming much more
spiritual when you hear it all the time

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spiritual teachers who then suddenly lose themselves
because they allow their own thoughts of themselves

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to take over, and suddenly the
ego sneakily comes in and takes over,

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and then all of a sudden you're
found to be more human than you thought

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you were. Well, it's really
a lesson in humility, absolutely, and

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that is part of the surrender.
Surrender, being humble, not thinking too

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much of yourself, just quieting all
of those thoughts. So that you can

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really hear the lessons. Yeah,
And when I think about it now with

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a fresh perspective of a better mindset, we're here to serve others. Our

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role in this life is to serve
others. And if you can't be humble

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in the service of others, then
really who you're serving is yourself. And

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that's probably the biggest lesson that I've
had to face doing all this, going

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through this change at work, that
I thought I was serving others, but

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at the time, really it feels
very self serving.