This process can take months, in some cases, a year or more. But it doesn’t have to be that way. In fact, you can have the job of your dreams – not just any job, but the one you’d really love to have – in a matter of weeks, days or even hours.

And that’s starting from scratch with nothing – no contacts, no qualifications, no resources – nothing at all. Let me tell you how I got one of my dream jobs when all I had was a dream.

Ever since I discovered Top 40 music at the age of ten, I had longed to work in radio production. For years, I would imagine myself at a radio station, producing shows, working with the disc jockeys and being involved in the running of the station.

I did radio production in college and collected recordings of radio shows from the 1930s and 40s. In fact, I was a local radio station junkie, listening to half a dozen stations a day. I could tell you which stations played what kind of music and which ones were worth listening to.

By the time I was 24, the closest I had gotten to actually being at a radio station was working as a secretary at a company that sold commercial air time to advertising agencies in midtown Manhattan. This was great, this was fun, this was close, this was not a radio station, and I wanted a radio station.

After five months there, I couldn’t stand it anymore and something in me said, “Now.” My boss was “Ed,” one of the account executives, and I would have had no problem talking to Ed about getting me to a radio station.

But my instincts said, “Go talk to Rob.” This instruction made no sense. Rob was another account executive, but he worked on the other side of the office and I barely knew him. In fact, the extent of my relationship with Rob was to say “Hi Rob” when I saw him.

However, I had learned a long time ago to follow my instincts, so I went and talked to Rob:

	Janet: “Rob, I’ve been here five months and I really want to work for a radio station. Do you know anybody?” Rob: : “My best buddy is the program director of WABC. (Musicradio WABC was then the #1 radio station in America. The ABC building was six blocks away but as far as I was concerned, it might as well have been on the moon.) And with no prompting from me, Rob then picked up the phone and called his best buddy: Rob: “Glenn, this is Rob. Listen, I got this great girl here, and she really wants to work for a radio station. You got anything?” Glenn: “Yes, and she’d better get down here right away because we’re about to hire.”

The next morning, I’m at WABC and met Glenn who was three years older than I was but had been with WABC for six years. It turned out that Glenn was a local radio station junkie like me, so we spent our meeting talking about – what else? – local radio!

Although I had never worked at a radio station before, had no formal training in broadcasting, didn’t even have a basic engineer’s license, had no experience in radio production other than college radio which didn’t count, and they had another candidate who knew what she was doing – I became WABC’s new Operations Assistant.

I had never worked at a radio station before, had no training in broadcasting, no credentials and no experience in radio production aside from college radio which didn’t count. In fact, I had never even been in a professional radio station before aside from a tour I once took.

This WABC— the #1 radio station in America -- and everyone wanted to work there. Logically, realistically, factually, I didn’t stand a chance.

Guess who they hired to be their new Operations Assistant? Me!

As I sat in my first music meeting, I thought,

“I’m not just at any radio station; I’m at WABC, the number one radio station in America! How did this happen? How did I do this?”

How I did it was by using the Law of Attraction, even though back then I didn’t know it existed. Since I believed I already was working at a radio station – even though I wasn’t – the Universe had no choice but to create a demonstration of my belief and the job at WABC appeared to show up out of nowhere. Through the power of my belief, I literally attracted it to me.

This is what I did and didn’t do to build my belief that I worked at a radio station:

• I held the vision of already being at radio station, and could feel myself there.

• I indulged in my passion for radio, especially Top 40.

• I got as close as I could to being at a radio station by getting a secretarial job at a company in the radio business. This job came to me through an employment agency, which just “happened” to receive the job listing that day.

• I followed my instincts by speaking to Rob, who I barely knew.

• I showed up at WABC the next day and listened to some funny stories for an hour (well, Glenn thought they were funny.)

• I didn’t worry about which station I would work at. I would have been thrilled with a tiny station out on Long Island or a hole-in-the-wall in the Bronx. What I got was the brass ring – simply by reaching out for it.

• I didn’t have any expectations of what would happen from talking to Rob. Our company represented independent, unaffiliated stations around the country. It was unlikely Rob would know anyone at any New York radio station because he didn’t deal with any.

• I didn’t worry about any consequences of talking to Rob; if Ed had his nose out of joint or was concerned I was looking for another job, he never mentioned it. Besides, this all happened so quickly that even if he had something to say to me, he didn’t have time.

• I didn’t do anything remotely like job hunting – I never read the want ads (the Internet didn’t exist then), didn’t have a resume, didn’t send out cover letters and didn’t have a formal interview. And you really can’t count talking to Rob as “networking” because I was just following my instincts.

The morale of this story is that if you want to get the job of your dreams, know what you want, get passionate about having it, live your life as if you do and don’t worry about how you get it.

Just be grateful that what you’ve been asking for is on its way to you, and then stand back in awe as the Law of Attraction takes your passion and turns it into your profession.