Corporate Job, Artist at Heart: Express True Calling and Make Money

We are constantly creating. With each thing you do, you are creating. Broaden your perspective of what is creatively possible.

Question: Dear Alana, I am a published author and an artist, yet now I am forced to work in the corporate world to keep a roof over my head, where I am in an executive assistant position.

Do you have any ideas on how I can express my true calling while still making decent money? I thank you for any career advice you might provide.

Alana’s Answer: Hello, dear one! Thank you for your question. Alana is delighted to share career advice, and I wish to mention that I sense much passion and creativity within you.

I also sense your desire for a balanced life in which your needs are met, and your heart is full.

Blending Needs with Balanced Vision

Dear one, it feels like you are learning much about being committed to your creativity while still honoring the other needs that exist: the need to have the things you like. It feels like you have a small belief that you are afraid to surrender and commit fully to your creativity.

Alana feels you have a grand creative ability and expression. But it’s important to honor the parts of you with grounded in a conservative nature without limiting possibilities.

I want to ensure that your needs are met and that you do not go out on a limb as you listen to this encouragement.

Need’s Inventory

So, dear one, continue to take small steps rather than just leaping into the unknown. Reflect on your life and notice where your needs are being met. Next, examine where you feel they are not met.

Take a needs inventory! Where your needs are unmet, commit to include them in your life.

Ways to do so will appear as you take small steps that feel secure while remaining aligned with your commitment to creativity and passion.

By taking these small steps to ensure you are meeting your needs, you are also reinforcing the energy that will gradually support keeping this part of you very much alive.

Alana feels you can have the best of both worlds because they co-exist already. But, also carefully look where you compromise or may be selling yourself short keeping the recognition of possibility illusive. In these areas, create with discernment and then realign.

Building Energy Through Intention

In other words, declare what you would like to experience more greatly in a present tense, active state. This intent will build energy to attract more expansive vocational opportunities.

Expansive possibilities will bring in your other creative, artistic, and authoring skills as they appear. What feels the two roads that seem like they are not co-existing will come together so you can experience them in the physical world as an expression in your life, like they become one.

Time Fuels Transition

As you move through this transition, it may take approximately three more years where you continue to experience your current lifestyle. Bit by bit, your initiative steps will draw in a commitment to your artistic direction and the authoring that exists within you.

The parts that feel a practical path provides greater security would like to gradually loosen, so the definition of what that feels and looks like broadens.

Then, you’ll find a position that embraces some of your conservative nature while giving you the flexibility and the freedom to create, create, and create!

We Are Creative Beings

We are constantly creating. With each thing you do, you are creating. Broaden your perspective of what is creatively possible. Ask the Universe to provide guidance, help, teachers, mentors, and co-creators into your life experiences.

You will find more monetary assistance because you are more authentic to who you indeed are.

Thank you, dear one. You are doing well knowing this is the perfect time for this question to arise! You are in a transition right now. Time is a great tool for manifesting what you dwell upon.

Watch your thoughts and keep your creative intention fueled by inviting more passion to align with your work. Keep your passion alive; you will do well, and the money will follow.

Thank you, dear one, for your career question.
–Alana