If you are not in alignment with your true purpose, the universe tends to nudge you onto something else or it slams you with a left hook from heaven that sucks the life out of you until you pay attention.

When I had my design business in the early ‘90’s I began feeling guilty about ripping out perfectly good carpet just because it wasn’t the right color. This was before the recycling days and dumping this behemoth of plastic in a landfill weighed heavily on me.  It would take the elements thousands of years to decompose that houseful of carpet.

I didn’t realize the universe was working on me to change my profession. Even bankruptcy didn’t make me get out of the business. I just kept trying by scaling down, moving the business home and doing it all myself including making the draperies.

Finally, placing an iron to the stain-proof, fire-proof drapery fabric filled my lungs and I couldn’t breathe. Years of hauling the toxic carpet and fabric around in my van had caused a buildup that could no longer be denied.

The doctor treated my condition as pneumonia because of the cloudiness in my lung X-Rays and continued to give me stronger antibiotics to no avail.  I became sicker from the medications and exhausted from trying to breathe.  When I would feel better I’d go back to work and became sick again.

I finally saw a naturopathic doctor who broke the news…I had to get out of the design business. But this was my calling!  What else can I do??

So…………….what do you do when you can’t do what you’ve done for 20 years? The universe had the answer: “You go into real estate.” As soon as I removed myself from the toxins, I healed and another journey began.

Are you receiving nudges from the universe about leaving a job or changing careers?

If you don’t take the steps to make the changes, I guarantee that more “nudges from the universe” will come……..

Please share with me in the comments section below what nudges you’re receiving and why you’re afraid to make the change?