I started on my
new job just two weeks ago. I don't have a lot of past experience in this area - so I have to learn a lot from scratch.
I intend to be promoted in early 2008. The promotion would depend on my performance in 2007. Since I joined in late March, I have only nine months (Apr to Dec 2007) to convince my new bosses to promote me.
Is this realistic? Probable? Possible at all?
Let's turn back the clock to December 2002.
Back then, I had just started work in Job A. At that time, I would describe myself as an "above average" employee. But definitely not "outstanding".
Also, at that time, I knew very little, about topics like personal development and self-improvement. I certainly had not heard of the
Law of Attraction.
Four months later, in April 2003, I was browsing in a bookstore and picked up a
book with a grossly unrealistic title.
I don't know why, but I bought the book anyway.
This book was to change my life. It opened my eyes to my own vast, unfulfilled potential (and indeed, the vast, unfulfilled potential of just about every other human being around me).
I began to apply some of the "Goals!" ideas at work. And I did very, very well. In the subsequent months, throughout the organisation, people whom I worked with on different projects kept calling and emailing my boss.
To tell her how much they enjoyed working with me. How very impressed they were with me. How they couldn't possibly have succeeded in this or that, if not for my help.
In October 2003, just
ten months after I had started in Job A, and six months after reading "Goals!", I was promoted.
This was a very special promotion. Employees never got promoted at that time of the year. However, my boss felt that I deserved to be promoted as soon as possible. Hence she went to great lengths to convince the HR Department, the Finance Department (in charge of salaries) and the CEO's office, to give me this immediate promotion.
And so I was promoted, in October 2003.
I continued to do well and in fact grew so fast that I ended up outgrowing the job. The following year, in July 2004, I resigned and took up Job B.
This new organisation announces promotions and gives bonuses in February each year.
Eight months later, in February 2005, I didn't get promoted but I got the biggest bonus in my life up to then (6 months).
One year later, in February 2006, I got
promoted for my 2005 performance and earned an even bigger bonus (11 months).
Eight months later, in October 2006, out of the blue, I got an
82% pay increase. This again was a special pay increase, not only because of its size, but because it was another "off-cycle" increase - in other words, given at a time when no other employees were due for any salary review.
Once again, my boss could only promote me, after making special efforts to wrangle and wrestle with assorted HR and Finance policies. Once again, my boss succeeded.
Four months later, in February 2007,
I got promoted again, and received yet another record sum in bonus money.
Again this promotion was a special exception. The official HR promotion policies say that at this level, there ought to be a gap of at least two years between promotions (that is, if I had been promoted in Feb 2006, I shouldn't be promoted at least until Feb 2008).
But they made a special exception for me, so I was promoted in February 2007.
Shortly thereafter, I
resigned anyway - despite the management's
attempts to persuade me to stay. So now I am in yet another new job - one with even greater potential for future earnings.
Look at my career history. Do you still think that it's not
possible for me, to be promoted, based on my performance over just the next nine months?
And do you still think it's not possible
for me to be the CEO of a bank, one day?
Of course it is possible. Numerous people have achieved far greater things, starting from the moment that they began to believe in themselves.
Belief, after all, is a key component in the Law of Attraction. Your thoughts create reality. If you believe that you can, if you
truly believe that you can .... then the universe will bend and shift and spin, creating events, circumstances and opportunities, at the right time, in the right place ...
so that you really, really can.
And then even HR policies and Finance Department policies cannot stand in your way. ;)
I leave you with a wisdom quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who died in 1832. The phrase "Law of Attraction" probably did not exist then, but Johann must have already known of the existence of this universal law. The quote is below, the italics are mine:
"... the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way."
That is how the Law of Attraction works.
