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My Angel Story
 This
Christmas season, you may be watching "It's a Wonderful
Life". In it, Clarence the angel shows up
out of the blue, to save the life of George Bailey,
Jimmy Stewart's character.
George is trying to commit suicide because he believes
that everyone would be better off if he were dead.
Clarence sticks with George until George has learned
his lesson -- that his presence, his choices,
his existence touched many lives and made his town
a better place. His family and friends need him.
Once George sees that, Clarence's work is over.
He has earned his angel wings, and he disappears.
In 2009, I was visited by my own personal
angel or spirit guide, who came into my life out of
nowhere, and left just as suddenly.
That was my cat, Troy.
When I adopted him in January, he was very
skittish and so nervous about how I would treat him.
He spent the first two weeks under the bed,
full-time. Then he came out but needed to maintain
a safe distance of about 10 feet away from me at all
times.
Fast forward to December, when he was cuddled
beside me on the sofa for hours, alternating between
encouraging me to pet him and dozing. He
had come a long, long way!
One December night at 10:45pm, he became
sick very suddenly. I rushed him to the emergency
vet, through the beginning of a blizzard. He had a
blood clot that paralyzed his rear legs and was causing
him tremendous pain. He was also in congestive heart
failure.
Three hours later, I came back home without
him. The vet couldn't save him and he was
in so much pain that the humane choice was to euthanize
him.
I missed him a lot! For weeks afterward,
every time I opened the front door, I expected to
see his little face. Every stray bit of cat hair floating
around reminded me of him.
I'm still coping with the sadness his absence
brings.
What comforts me is the belief that he was
here to teach me a lesson. Once I learned
that lesson, his work here was over, and he was gone.
It's no coincidence his last week on Earth
was an amazing week for me, with a huge mindset shift
on Thursday, in which I stepped forward into playing
a bigger game in my business and really becoming my
authentic self.
Thirty hours later, he was gone.
From the beginning of my time with him, I
was convinced he was in my life for a specific reason.
Along the way, I thought it was to teach
me how to live in the now (all animals excel at that!)
and how to ask for what I want.
In retrospect, I see that the even bigger
reason was to open up my heart more and more. My
cat-owner friends reassure me that losses like this
just make your heart bigger and stronger.
I had a lesson (or maybe, several) to learn
from him and he had something to learn from me. He
learned to trust me: that I'd take care of him, love
him, and he'd always be safe with me. I learned patience
and how to love him. He was a steady role model for
me of how to live in the now, to sleep when you're
tired, and ask for love when you need it.
This year, when I'm watching Clarence, I'll
be thinking of Troy.
CALL TO ACTION
Whew! I always cry a bit whenever I re-read this
story. While it is a story about loss, it's
also a story about growth. Troy helped me grow. And
whenever I grow, my business also grows.
One of my favorite self-help experts, Dr.
Pat Pearson, recently said on a call for direct sellers
that every time you grow as a person, your income
will go up by $25,000.
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Some were regular cats; some were special. Troy was
one of the special ones and Dash is also. 
Do
you wish you had beauty at your fingertips? A constant
companion you could turn to for wisdom, guidance, and
peace of mind at the snap of a finger?
