My Dance with the Number 75757
Alright, let’s talk about this 75757 number sequence. It wasn’t something I went looking for, not at all. It just sort of… started showing up. This was back when I was knee-deep in trying to figure out my next move, career-wise. Felt like I was stuck in mud, you know? Same old routine, day in, day out, and honestly, getting a bit tired of it.
So, the practice for me didn’t start with some grand spiritual awakening or anything fancy. It started with noticing. First time, it was a license plate in traffic. 75757. Didn’t think much of it. Then, maybe a day or two later, I paused a video online, and the timestamp was frozen at something involving 7:57, maybe even close to 7:57:57, I can’t recall exactly but the numbers just jumped out. Weird coincidence, I thought.
But then it kept happening. Phone numbers on billboards, order numbers on receipts, even the darn step counter on my watch seemed to hit sequences involving 7s and 5s way too often. It got to the point where it wasn’t just coincidence anymore. It felt like a tap on the shoulder.
What did I actually do? My ‘practice’, if you want to call it that?
Well, I didn’t run off to join a monastery or anything. I just started to pay more deliberate attention. Here’s what I did, step-by-step:
- Acknowledged it: Instead of brushing it off as random, when I saw 75757 or a close variation, I’d mentally pause and just say, “Okay, I see you.” Sounds silly, maybe, but it felt like engaging with it rather than ignoring it.
- Checked my thoughts: When the number popped up, I tried to notice what I was thinking about right at that moment. Was I worrying about work? Thinking about a new idea? Feeling frustrated?
- Journaled briefly: Didn’t do this every single time, but maybe once a day or every couple of days, I’d jot down when I saw the number and what was going on in my head or life at that moment. Nothing detailed, just quick notes. Like “Saw 75757 on clock, was stressing about the presentation.” or “Order number ended in 757, was thinking about that side project idea.”
- Looked for patterns: After a couple of weeks of these quick notes, I looked back. Was there a theme? Often, I noticed the number appeared when I was feeling doubtful about making a change or when I was actually brainstorming something new, something more aligned with what I wanted to do, not just what I had to do.
It wasn’t about the number telling me exactly what to do. It was more like it acted as a prompt. A reminder to check in with myself. Seeing 75757 became a trigger to stop, breathe, and consider if my current thoughts or actions were really moving me forward or just keeping me stuck in that mud.
Slowly, very slowly, I started making small shifts. I dedicated a bit more time to exploring that side project. I started speaking up more about my ideas at work, the ones I usually kept quiet. It wasn’t magic. It was just… nudged action. The number didn’t provide answers, but the practice of noticing it, and checking in with myself because of it, helped me tune into my own intuition a bit better.
Eventually, I did make that career shift. It wasn’t solely because of seeing numbers, obviously. That takes real work, planning, and a bit of guts. But the whole 75757 thing? It felt like a background companion during that phase, a weird, persistent nudge that reminded me to trust the process and keep moving towards something different. Haven’t seen it nearly as much lately, which is interesting in itself.
