Question: I recently had an experience involving an important investment decision at work. I politely proposed a solution that would have saved 30 million euros for the investors, but my team leader did not approve of the idea and even took it as a challenge to his authority. This incident nearly cost me my job. Should I view this experience as a lesson to be at peace with circumstances beyond my control or should I see it as a challenge to persevere and strive towards achieving the common good?
Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2023 Korean Conference.
Well, that depends very much on the situation and the dynamics between you and the other people. What you can always strive to do is look at your own reaction. You can see whether your reaction was, what we might call, obsessive compulsive where you felt a strong compulsion to speak out about this and you felt a strong emotional reaction to the situation. This reaction comes from some subconscious selves, so it will only help your growth if you work on uncovering them and overcoming them. This should be the first priority. Once you have overcome the selves that caused you to go into an unbalanced reaction, then you have much more freedom to determine what to do next or what to do in other situations.
Generally, my advice is this, whenever there is a situation you speak out, you state the way you see it without directly challenging the authority of those above you. You simply state it in a neutral manner as an observation, and then, you respect that, in any workplace situation, there might be someone above you who has the final word, and then, you say: “I have spoken out. I have stated my case, but it is not my decision to make, so I must allow those who are in the decision-making position to make that decision and experience the consequences.”
It is not really, in most cases, the behavior of Christed beings to directly challenge other people, at least not in an unbalanced way. I know you can look back at Jesus’ life and say: “But did not he challenge the scribes and Pharisees?”, and yes, he did, but sometimes he was unbalanced in doing so. In other cases, it was necessary for him to do this because it brought about their judgment. This can, of course, be the case for you as well but again strive to be as balanced and non-attached as possible.
Simply state your case and allow the people to make the decisions who are in a decision-making position, and then, be at peace with knowing you have done what you could do. If there is an opportunity afterwards to make people aware that the outcome could have been different, then, do that but also in a non-attached manner.
In general, there can be exceptions but, in general, simply allow the situation to outplay itself and reason that you have done what you could and that if there are people who see you as a threat and take measures to have you fired, for example, this will bring about their own judgment. You can, of course, also if it is appropriate go to a higher authority than your immediate supervisor and seek to get them to look at the issue, but this will often cause your supervisor to see it as a threat to his or her authority. So, you need to evaluate the actual situation.
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