My 18 Hour Job Search

I want to share with you how I used the Law of Attraction to bring me not just a job, and not just a good job, but a fantastic, brand new job that was created for me a mere 18 hours after getting laid off right before the Christmas holidays. All it took was a simple shift in my thinking.

If you’ve never heard of the Law of Attraction or “The Secret” before, try to picture yourself as a living magnet. You literally attract people, things and situations to yourself through your thoughts, feelings and beliefs – both conscious and subconscious. This is the Law of Attraction at work.

The Law of Attraction – like the law of gravity, the law of soil, the law of electricity and the other Universal Laws – has these qualities:nn* It’s universal: It works exactly the same way for everyone with no exceptions.nn* It’s consistent: It does only one thing and it does it all the time.nn* It’s impartial: It doesn’t play favorites, have feelings or care about who uses it or how it is used.nn* It’s effortless: It does what it does without effort, so size doesn’t matter, and using it is effortless too.nn* It’s infinite: No matter how much you use of it, there will always be more.nn* It’s mysterious: We know what it does; we just don’t know how it does it.nn* It’s predictable: Because it will always do what it does exactly the same way for everyone all the time under all conditions, it can be intentionally used.

December 17thnLike most layoffs, this one wasn’t a surprise. I was working at a very small company so it was easy to tell how we were doing by the noise level in the office. And it was quiet. Much too quiet.

Finally, the president called us into her office and told us that the company was in serious financial trouble and even if we all pitched in and gave extra effort, she couldn’t promise it would help or that she’d even be able to make the next payroll.

I don’t mind helping out and doing more than my share, especially when you need an extra hand, but when you tell me you probably won’t be able to pay me for my work, I’m gone. And there it was. I was out of a job and right before the Christmas holidays too.

That nice, comfortable feeling of having something to do, a place to go, people to see, a steady paycheck and great benefits had suddenly been replaced by a sickening, sinking feeling in my stomach.

Since I’m only human, I allowed myself to panic for about five seconds and then I caught myself. With my next breath, I remembered the power of the Law of Attraction and replaced terror with calm, dread with joy, and uncertainty with faith.

As the author of the world’s first guidebook to using the Law of Attraction to attract and get a dream job, I knew all about the Law. I knew with absolute certainty that I could expect to see very powerful demonstrations of whatever I focused on with my thoughts, feelings and beliefs coming to me very rapidly.

I knew if I focused on the feelings and experiences typically associated with being laid off – like fear, uncertainty, loss of income, loss of pride, a long period of unemployment and having to start all over – that’s what would show up in my life.

Since I didn’t want any of those things showing up, there was only one thing for me to do: I had to think differently. So as I’m being laid off, this was going through my mind:

“Okay, Universe, I thought this job was my demonstration of prosperity, but obviously it’s not. Clearly, this was just a step on a path to a greater good. I don’t know what that greater good is now, but whatever it is, I’m moving toward it.”

Now, when you’re on a path and want to move forward, the first thing you should do is assess what you have right where you are, so I looked within. “Janet, you’re a publicist and sales rep. That’s who you are and what you do best,” I thought.

The second thing you should do when you want to move forward on a path is to look at what’s right in front of you. So I thought about what was on my desk and the 35+ vendors I had brought with me when I folded my business into the company.

And then it occurred to me that I could do for these small vendors what I had done years ago as an independent commercial real estate writer and publicist – help them build their businesses through publicity and writing.

But now that I was an established sales rep, I would add in the extra benefit of helping them build their sales, resulting in extra income to me through commissions. I knew the vast majority of these companies were small, short-handed and limited in terms of their marketing reach.

And since I was already dealing directly with either the CEO and/or the national sales managers, I’d get a yes or no right away. As a publicist, I knew there were numerous opportunities to promote both their products and companies, and increase their sales as a result. I was really getting excited about this!

The upshot was that by the time the president had finished telling us the bad news, I had already formulated the concept for my business and was eager to get started. I told the president that I couldn’t stay to pitch in and would be out by 5 PM.

It was now noon. It took the rest of the day for me to email all of my vendors explaining that I was gone, why I was leaving, what I was doing next and inviting them to join me.

In addition to the vendors I had brought with me when I joined the company and the handful more I had recruited during my four and a half month tenure, there was one vendor who had come in from left field.

This vendor was unusual because it was local, and was at the point of being ready to sell its products – a unique line of pain management devices that had just been approved for sale by the FDA and was covered by Medicare and most insurers.

Since we were a local distributor of medical equipment and supplies selling to the Veterans Administration and other US governmental healthcare facilities and agencies, getting together seemed a natural fit.

Unfortunately, this vendor had no sales force, no organized way of getting their story told and their products sold, and not much money. They also had no way of knowing that we were about to fall apart as a company and couldn’t have done what they wanted us to do anyway.

Although they had never become a client, I sent this vendor one of my emails with the passing thought that given their circumstances, if anyone could use me to help them build their business, it would be them.

As I cleared out my desk, I gave thanks for having worked at that company and all the good it had brought me. Infinite abundance was already mine, and now I was ready to receive it in another form. I was about to find out very quickly what form it was to take.

December 18thnMy phone rang the next morning. It was Tim, president of the pain management device company, saying, “I just got your email. What you are proposing is exactly what we are looking for. Can you give us more information?”

I spent the next two days flushing out my concept and emailed it to Tim and his national sales manager, Bill, who had sat in on the phone call. We agreed to speak again after the long holiday weekend and they had had a chance to read and reflect on what I sent.

December 27thnThe conversation was short and sweet. It was a go with smiles all around.

January 3rd and Beyond
At 10 AM on the first business day back from the holidays, I’m sitting with Tim and Bill signing the papers formalizing our agreement that I would be their first outside sales rep. I knew it wouldn’t be long before sales – and commissions – would be rolling in.

And the publicity? Yes, they wanted that too, and it would come once there was cash flow to pay for it, which would be in addition to my sales commissions.

This job – which I manifested literally ove
ight and came to fruition over the Christmas holidays – is exactly what I always wanted as a manufacturer’s rep:nn* The company is small and local – I can be at the office in 15 minutes.nn* I work from home, set my own schedule and cover the Metroplex, so I sleep in my own bed every night.nn* Best of all, we have a hit. The clinicians see it, they try it, they love it and they write prescriptions for it. It couldn’t be easier or more fun to sell.

Postscript
When I joined my previous firm in August, I had no way of knowing that by mid-December I’d be out of a job and by the first week in January, I’d be repping a product line that is revolutionizing the treatment of pain. Here are some early stories:nn* One pain management nurse used our device and reported that she no longer needed daily shots for her chronic back pain. nn* A chiropractor with neck pain used our device and now no one can get it away from her.nn* It took just five minutes for one pain management doctor to decide to stock our units in his clinic so his patients could get a prescription for the device, be trained how to use it and take it home with them before they left his office.

I got into healthcare product sales more than a decade ago because I wanted to make a good living by helping people have better lives. And now, thanks to the Law of Attraction, I’m really doing it.

And when you intentionally, deliberately and carefully direct the awesome, unlimited power of the Law of Attraction through your thinking, you can get the job of your dreams as easily and effortlessly as I got mine.