Are You Ready to Receive What You Asked For? | DFS 423

Welcome to Destin for Success. I'm your

host Jennifer Takagi, and I want to follow up a little bit on

last week's episode with Lisbeth. And the question

Are you ready to receive what you asked for. Are

you ready to receive what you asked for? Long ago and far

away, I wanted a job. I wanted a very specific job. I applied for

the job, and I knew in the depths of my soul that I was

going to be selected for this position. I was moving

organizations, and it was going to be great. And I just knew it

was mine. You can imagine my devastation when I found out I

didn't get the job. I didn't get the job. I was very distraught.

I was very sad about It and several weeks later, I had

surgery. I had bunion surgery on my right foot, and as I'm

healing from my bunion surgery, I receive a call and they say,

"You have now been selected for the job, and at the time I was

so taken aback. I was so shocked. I said, "Can I call you

right back?" And the woman said, "Yes, but we need an answer."

And I said, "You'll get an answer. The answer is yes, but I

just need to absorb this for a minute. Let me call you right

back. And I hung up and I turned to the. I had two gals that we

shared a little office space with, and I was like, "Oh my

gosh! Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! You're not ever going to believe

this. I got the job. She just called and offered me the job,

and they were like, " Oh my God! Really? So I I caught my breath

and I called the woman back and I said yes, I will accept the

job. I have to give two weeks notice. I I can start on this

date, and she said okay, great. So they started the paperwork.

So I called my mom and I was like, "Oh my gosh, I got the

job!" So my mom, in all her infinite wisdom, said, "It's a

good thing you didn't get it when you first were turned down,

because now you've gotten your first foot operated on, and you

can have the second one operated on, and be healed up. What? So

as it turns out, I went back to work, or I got started my new

job. I was there for a few days, and I had my follow-up surgery,

and just took off half a day when I had surgery, and then I

went home one day because I was like, "Man, this is too much. I

need to I need to stay off this foot for a day." But had I

gotten the job the first go around, I wouldn't have had that

surgery. And let me just tell you, if you don't know anybody

who has bunions, they're extremely painful, or they can

be. What I found out was, on that bone by your big toe on the

side of your foot, if the nerve is on the outside of that bone,

every shoe hurts because it's pressing on the nerve. Some

people have bunions and their feet look really funky, but they

don't don't hurt at all. And it's because the nerve is on the

inside, not the outside. So you know, medical jargon that you

really didn't care about. But I thought I wanted that job, and I

was devastated that I didn't get the job. But I got it later. I

got it when I was in a better position to say yes. I was in a

better position to say yes. So sometimes we don't get things in

the timing because we weren't really ready for it, and we

really have to put on our big girl panties, our big boy

shorts, whatever you wear, before we can see that. So I

just prompt you to look back on a time when you didn't get what

you wanted, what you asked for, what you planned for, what you

trained for, and can you see a really valid reason that it

wasn't the right time for you right then? Because everything

shows up in perfect timing. Some. Times you don't get what

you think you want because they don't look like what you thought

they should look like. So are the opportunities showing up for

you?

But since they didn't look quite right, you're saying no, And

other times, are you paying attention to the things you even

ask for? I can remember sitting at my desk one time, and I had a

beautiful view of a beautiful church in downtown Oklahoma

City, and I was like, between phone calls, between meetings

had a chance to catch my breath, and I'm looking out the window,

and I thought, I'm kind of bored with what I'm doing. Like I've

been doing this for a hot minute, I'm kind of bored. I kid

you not. The next day, I got a phone call, and I was told that

I had to go to Washington D.C. and spend the summer in D.C. on

a special project. And I was like, "Holy crap! Holy, that

didn't show up. That opportunity to do something different did

not show up like I thought it was going to. That was not the

summer that I thought I was gonna have, and it was quite the

summer. Let me tell you, it's not what I thought it was gonna

look like, but it turned out to be great, and it was a great

opportunity, and it laid the foundation for a whole lot of

other things. But I can tell you right now with complete

certainty, it didn't look like I thought it was going to look

like. Not at all. Another thing that didn't look like what I

thought it was going to look like, I was invited to attend a

summit to support one of the people that was going to speak

on it, and unbeknownst to me, she had an entire list, an email

list. I thought she invited me personally. She did not, and I

attended this three-day summit because I didn't have anything

better to do. It was the summer of 2020, August of 2020, and I

have no idea what to expect. So when you talk about

opportunities and expectations, I had none. I didn't know what

to expect. I didn't know what was about to happen. So on this

summit, there is a speaker, and she talks about Akashic records,

and I had heard about Akashic records, and she offered 10

slots, 15 minute sessions. I was like, "Holy moly! I'm all in.

I'm getting that. I'm doing that." So I probably typed

Jennifer faster than I ever typed Jennifer in my life, and I

booked my call. And that one call changed the trajectory of

my life. I learned to read Akashic records, which led to

Holy Fire Reiki, which led to emotion code, body code, belief

code, and energetic magic. I would have never done any of

that. If I hadn't said yes to registering for a summit to

support a speaker, we need to pay attention when offers are

made, when gestures are made. They don't always look like

they're going to turn into anything, but sometimes they do.

When opportunities show up, say yes. Say yes to every possible

opportunity that comes your way. Now, I don't want you to make

$100,000 investment in a coaching package if it's not for

you. I'm not saying yes just to say yes. But before you

automatically say no, I want you to sit back and think about the

possibilities. Is this a possible good fit for you? If I

take that opportunity, what could it look like? I often

coach people on taking advantage of the next steps so that they

can meet their goals, so they can create the life they want to

create, and one thing that often comes up is social media posts,

and they're like, "Oh, well, I need to do a post," but and then

they overthink it, and then they don't do it, and they don't do

it, and they don't do it, and I'm like, "Oh my goodness, set a

timer for 12 minutes.". Think of something you said in the past.

Make it a quote. Put it on whatever your brand colors, if

you have any. If you don't, do it black and white. Do a solid

background with the letters on it. Put your name at the bottom.

Put it out there. Post something. Get your name out

there. Get your brand out there. Your brand comes as you build, I

want you to think right now. What is one thing that you want

to do? You need to do.

You could do, and then spend 12 minutes doing it. Just do the

thing. Write the post, write the article, go into AI. They have

all your information and say, write an article that sounds

just like me. Just do it quickly, easily. Just do the

thing. Do the thing. Are you ready for what you ask for? You

have to be willing to recognize it when it shows up. You have to

be willing to receive it and act on them when they show up. How

many opportunities have you missed because you weren't

paying attention? You put it out in the universe that you want

something, you jolly well be paying attention when the

universe starts to deliver. You know why? Because if you pass it

up, the universe is going to deliver it to somebody else, and

then you're going to say, "Oh wait, that was my idea." Well,

it was your idea, and you pass it up. Pay attention. Pay

attention to your surroundings, pay attention to the

opportunities, pay attention to the thoughts that you have, and

pay attention to the people you're hanging out with. If you

want a little assistance with this, book a call with me,

yoursuccesscall.com, and I would be happy and thrilled to help

you break down your next goal into 12-minute increments. I'm

Jennifer Takagi, and I look forward to connecting with you

soon.