Swim To Yr Ship

 “Some people talk about waiting for their ship to come in, but the people who win in life are willing to swim out to the ship.”
                                       Les Brown

We have to put ourselves out there… we have to swim out to our ship.

When we put ourselves out there in any area of our lives, it creates an energetic frequency that must give us back what we are putting out. 

I recently heard the story of teenage millionaire, Cameron Johnson who is a money making protégé. The story I heard was not one about him making money, but more specifically about him putting himself out there; his first key to success.

Cameron was eight years old, and he loved the movie Home Alone. It was his dream to visit NYC and stay in the Plaza Hotel, the same hotel Macauley Culkin had stayed in, in the movie. He wrote a letter to the owner of the Plaza Hotel, Donald Trump and asked to tour the suite the movie was shot in. Upon his arrival to the Plaza Hotel, he was greeted by the concierge, who told him that Trump had arranged for his whole family to stay in the suite during their time in NYC.

In his book You Call the Shots, Cameron Johnson uses this story to explain the importance of putting yourself out there, because you never know what you might get back.

As we get older putting ourselves out there becomes a bit more complicated. Swimming out to our ship can cause our Ego to kick into high gear…

If I put myself out there, I might get laughed at.

If I put myself out there, I might offend or step on someone’s toes.

If I put myself out there, I might fail.

Putting yourself out there, can be scary… But the possible pros that can arise, greatly out weigh the cons. So why not put yourself out there?!  

I’ve recently been challenging myself to do just that, and Ive had some great responses.

--A few weeks ago, I attended an agent meet and greet, and had a great conversation and connection with one of the agents. During our session she said, “Wow, you should really get Mimi, from Rent on your resume.” I smiled and said, “Id love to play that role, and I’ll work on that.”

I went home that afternoon, and saw an audition posting for Rent Off-Bway, and thought what an interesting coincidence. I decided to put myself out there. I wrote to the agent, and asked her to consider submitting me for an audition appointment. I also included a demo cd of myself, singing a song from the show, to spark her interest.

I cannot tell you how great it felt to drop that letter in the mail. Now the excitement was paired with a little bit of fear, but it was overall empowering. I thought “Cool, if she calls me great and if not, at least I did my part.”

--About a month ago a close friend of mine, offered to submit my headshot and resume to her agent. (Now this was sorta putting myself out there, through her putting herself out there… but Id say it still counts.) Anyway, she submitted my information... and yesterday, I received the good news that her agent would like to meet with me this coming week.

--Now my family and I have been going through some rough times for a while now, and last week we all reached our braking point. It was decided, big changes needed to occur immediately. One of the big changes was my need for another job as supplemental income.

I began my job hunt, and was lucky enough to receive two job offers within the first couple hours I was out interviewing. But the pay and time constraint wasn’t the most applicable for my lifestyle.

And then, something inside me told me to call this swanky nightclub and ask for a job as a waitress. I don’t know what compelled me to do it, but for some reason I just knew I needed to try my luck. So I called at 2pm, thinking no one would answer. But shockingly, someone did answer. The guy on the phone said that I could send in my resume for consideration.

So I sent my resume. Low and behold, I received an email back just a few minutes later. The guy on the phone, who I had just sent my resume to, just happened to be my ol’pal from my freshman year dorm at NYU. I started training just a few days later, and began working the week after that.

You never know what you’ll get if you just put yourself out there. You could get nothing. But you could also get something, something even more exciting than you could have ever imagined. 

Like energy begets like energy. So if you put out positive energetic frequencies, you must receive back the equivalent. Now it might not come right away, and it might not come in exactly the way you had planned, but once the energy is out there, the like-energy is bound to come back your way.

Fear stops most of us from doing this, but all the “fear” is, is your ego, and we are so much bigger than our ego. 

So why not put yourself out there in all aspects of your life, and see what opportunities may arise. My guess is you’ll feel empowered… and this empowerment will generate the flow of success coming your way.