Rev. Dr. Tami Coyne

Tami Coyne
Berkley, 1998

Currently Out of Print.
Look for a new edition in 2005.

Table of Contents:

Introduction

Part One: The Map Is Not The Territory
1. Getting Down to Business

Part Two: Perspective Is Everything
2. Loving the Work You Do
3. Coping with Layoffs and Other Failures
4. Handling Stress and Pressure
5. Make a Spiritual Resume

Part Three: All The World's A Stage
6. Dealing with an Impossible Boss
7. Coping with an Insecure Colleague
8. Managing Yourself and Others
9. Play Your Part

Part Four: Your Reap What You Sow
10. Advancing Within the Ranks
11. Finding the Work You Love
12. Manifesting and Accepting Success
13. Create a spiritual Plan For Success

Part Five: The End Is Always The Beginning
14. Traveling the Road to Cosmic Consciousness

Excerpted from:

CHAPTER ONE: GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS

American society as a whole, and particularly the workplace, is currently undergoing a profound transformation. The results of the current shift from a modern industrial society to a postmodern informational society are obvious. As individuals, we that we can no longer expect to work in the same job, much less the same career, for the duration of our work lives. The job skills we have at any stage of our career need to be updated on an ongoing basis if we want to be able to compete ever-changing technological marketplace. The terrible realization has hit us fully in the face-the "good old days" of prior generations, when the all-powerful but beneficent employer took care of all our needs in return for an honest day's work, are long gone.

The birth pangs of the transformation that is under way are felt by every working person, from the factory worker all the way up the ladder to the CEO of a multinational corporation. Apparently no one is exempt from the dreaded buzzwords of the early years of this new millennium: downsizing and restructuring. The great majority of us are not free from the anxiety and panic that result when a job held one day may or may not exist the next. Who will survive and flourish in these times of uncertainty?

The people who are ultimately seen as trailblazers and success stories are the ones who, driven by trying circumstances, realize that adaptation is the key to evolution. These individuals see latent opportunity during times of transformation, confront and challenge their outmoded beliefs about "how things really work," and regain the control over their own lives that they once so willingly handed over to the almighty powers that be. Once in the driver's seat, these individuals are no longer willing to return to being passengers who are simply along for the ride.

Each one of us has the potential to be a trailblazer and a success story—regardless of our sex, class, educational level, or age—and it is our spiritual power that is the key to this success. It is not a coincidence that cultural and economic transformation is occurring at the same time that interest in spirituality is growing by leaps and bounds. Seen in its true light, the entire transformation is the result of the process of spiritual unfolding that is at the core of our development as a species. We are renewing our bond with the Spirit within and are slowly awakening from the spiritual slumber that has lasted for centuries.

Signs of this awakening are everywhere. Once the slaves of established dogma—political, economic, and religious—Americans in large numbers are now seeking alternative ways of understanding the situations with which they are confronted, as well as the world as a whole. Spirituality, once solely the domain of priests, ministers, rabbis, and other religious leaders, is now becoming an individual matter. As we shift from an industrial to an informational economy, we are also shifting from a culture that sees God as out there somewhere to a culture that feels God is somewhere inside us. The darkness that has enshrouded us for generations is slowly being replaced by the light of heightened self-awareness. The recognition dawns that we have not been forsaken by God, that we do not need to give up our power as individuals in return for security, that we have the ability to satisfy all of our own needs and to transform our personal and work lives into soulful expressions of our true spiritual nature.