Learning to listen to the angels as they always know best!
What a day today. I started the day off stressed - stressed for a number of reasons.
- I had escalated an approval to execute a contract to my boss on Monday and hadn't heard back from him (he responds really quickly). Because of that, I was dreading that I had done something wrong and he wanted a phone call with me - to discuss that contract and my annual performance evaluation (gulp).
- I was trying to juggle a lot of work at the same time so felt like things were going a bit out of control.
- I thought that a phone call with the lawyers from a vendor was going to get nasty so I was preparing myself for that.
- Given the call with my boss, I was trying to figure out whether to tell him my decision to change careers (double gulp).
Throughout the day I was trying to plan out my career transition to make it work for myself and my company. I spoke to the head of Australia and New Zealand and we were trying to figure out whether I let the cat out of the bag now or later. He initially said don't say anything but if my boss asked me directly, then tell him. I also had a good conversation with the HR director to get her advice on what to do as well. Then at 4pm, the head of Australia and NZ msgs me telling me he told my boss (cue heart palpitations going through the rood)! How was my boss going to react? Could we come to some sort of arrangement to make it work for both of us? OMG... I was already sweating buckets because I had thought I had done something wrong in my review of a contract and now I had to chat to him about this on the call too?!
Not to mention that I still had no idea about how many hours I could work once I started full time study. The college hasn't been in contact to let me know how they're structuring the new course so I was really worried that I actually could not work enough hours to get the money I needed to do this!
ANYWAY - the phone call comes along and we had a good chat. My boss was shocked of course but he told me that I had to pursue my dreams and my passion, and that he could tell I had thought long and hard about this decision and that it wasn't an impulsive one. He then told me that he was really proud of the work that I have done over the past year and that he was putting me forward for a promotion! He said that he needed some time for the news to sink but was open to working together so that I could still work as long as I needed and study as well. You have NO IDEA how relieved I felt when he told me that... *phew*
As for the other stuff, my boss just wanted to discuss a certain clause but when he realised all the approvals had been received he approved the execution of it, I managed to get on top of my work load and the phone call with the lawyer wasn't that bad and we managed to close off the issue. Score!
It just goes to show that you really do bring your stresses on yourself. I worked myself up terribly on baseless assumptions. Throughout the day I kept checking my angel cards and they kept coming up with "Listen to us - it'll all be fine". No joke - that card came up every single time I asked :P I need to learn to really leave my fears with God and the angels and really trust that things will turn out the way they are meant to be.
P.S Yesterday afternoon I was doing automatic writing and my spirit guides drew a cat. At that point I thought it was an acknowledgement that I was balancing out my feminine side.. but I find it funny that today the "cat got out of the bag" so to speak and everything was fine ;)