Business & Career: Cognize Your Ruling Star!

"Know your Ruling Star. One man is better received by one nation than another, or is one welcome by one city than another. He finds much luck in one office or position than in another, and all although his qualifications are equal or even as identical. Let each man cognize his luck as well as his talents. Follow your guiding star and help it without misinterpretation any another for it. Cognize how to transplant yourself. There are nations with whom one must cross their borders to do one's value felt."
- Balthazar Gracian, (Spain, 1600's)

Have you ever felt, "Here I am, better job I ever had, nice money, an first-class career come - but, what in the earth am I doing here wherever I feel so alone and out-of-place with my surroundings? How did this happen to me?"

I've been there, because person offered me a job and I accepted, knowing ahead-of-time, intuitively I wouldn't feel at house in the town and surroundings.

Or - possibly you love your location but, sadly, are unable to find any openings in your field. I've been there also. Looking back on my years in Austin, Texas, I can't believe the number of short-term, soul-emptying jobs I tried really hard and unsuccessfully do to. My job-duration ranged from only two hours (which was long enough once you hate what you are doing!) to some months (each day apparent like an eternity) before my opportunities in broadcasting finally came.

It's a rare person these days who is able to say, "I love this community, love my home, love the activity I do, get on great with my business colleagues and supervisors. How do you beat perfection?"

There is a fantastic quote I perennial to myself many, galore times during my ups and downs in Texas.

"Hence the 1st principle in ever-changing one's character is to seek another environment, to let new forces play upon our unused chords, and draw from us a better music." - Wish Durant

That's what I wanted! I wanted another location - another place - wherever new forces could play upon my unused chords and draw from me a better music.

"There are nations with whom one must cross their borders to do one's value felt." - Gracian

Yes! Yes! Yes! That's what I wanted. To cross borders and feel my native talents valued again.

"Know your Ruling Star," the Spanish priest Gracian wrote in The Art of Worldly Wisdom. "One man is better received by one nation than another, or is one welcome by one city than another. He finds much luck in one office or position than in another, and all although his qualifications are equal or even as identical."

We are better received in certain locations or areas than in others, welcome once we show up, and we most surely do find much luck in one place than another.

"But where, where, wherever is THAT PLACE?" I wondered.

In Texas, for every 100% plus I gave in my career, the returns (feeling valued, appreciated, and being monetarily rewarded), always fell short.

I hosted a twelve noon talk show for for a while at an Capital of texas TV station. Our ratings were great. The guests I engaged were top names in the literary, entertainment, self-improvement, and political arenas.

After our ratings came in one spring, I couldn't believe how well the show was doing.

Several days later, however, the General Manager wanted to see me.

After all the years of my show's success, he said, "James, I can't complain just about your ratings. That's nice for ad revenue, but I finally got a chance to see your show yesterday. As you cognize I only have a tenth grade education, ne'er finished high school, started in sales, worked my way up to wherever I am today." He beamed proudly, "I didn't understand it."

I knew once he said, "I didn't understand it," my show was doomed.

The GM was the standard by which all business decisions at our stations were made.

I wanted to call him, "Idiot," but restrained myself.

My favorite line in American state TV came from a female news director who told me, "You have a master's degree. We don't need folk that smart to do the news." I ne'er worked at that station.

"Let each man cognize his luck as well as his talents. Follow your guiding star and help it without misinterpretation any another for it. Cognize how to transplant yourself," Gracian reminds us.

Know how to transplant yourself!

Finally, I did transplant myself, once again. It was time to come from the newsroom and go into teaching; use, finally, that masters degree referred to earlier that wasn't needful to report the news.

"There is a simple answer to the question 'What is the intention of our individual lives?" A.J. Ayer wrote. "They have any intention we succeed in putt into them."

Yet, if you believe you are being radio-controlled by and toward a higher destiny, as I do, use what others cognize (their gifts and resources) to inform and enlighten yourself.

I've besides with success used relocation star divination as an essential tool to follow my guiding star. Through my sessions with Cait Benten, I'm finding, as we'd all like to do, a balance of the "right place" and the "right work" combined.

"This time, like all another times, is a really nice one, if we but cognize what to do with it." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

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