Not Accomplishing What You Want May 22, 2007
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Don’t find any question but I for one cannot accomplish the things I want to do. This is not a question but maybe you have some answers to it.
Be happy, enjoy what you have or or are accomplishing. There will be always things you will not accomplish.
Passion, Profession and Security March 19, 2007
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Can anybody make their passion work? Can I study something that doesn’t give me a clear profession, even if I value security?
Passion: It is waking all the time.
Clear profession: What value do you want to create? What work/profession best enables you to create and offer your value? All work is changing. You are the change.
Security: It is you. It is not external. All is changing. Know yourself. Be yourself. Accept yourself. You are your career. The profession is a framework within which you can express (create and offer) your value.
If Studying Feels Like Work March 2, 2007
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What if studying feels like working? Should you drop out and find something else to do?
First: Value who you are and what you like. Appreciate and enjoy all that you are.
Ask: How can what I am studying enable me offer my value? The study time is very short.
How to Find My Passion and Love February 27, 2007
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How will I find my passion? My joy and my love?
Your passion/joy/love is already within you. Ask: what am I doing/thinking/believing that is stopping me from experiencing my passion/joy/love?
It is not what you do that guides your passion and joy. Express your love and you will experience love. Express joy and you will experience joy. Express passion and you will experience passion.
How do I go about to find my true passion, my joy, my true purpose? I am seriously building up my life. How do I find my purpose? How do I best improve the world?
Look within. What triggers that passion? Ask: What do you express that activates that passion and joy? Improve the world by adding your value in the world.
How to Discover Your Passion February 12, 2007
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How to find the one thing you are so passionate that you can live in it for the rest of your life. How do you know this is the right thing?
First, what is the value you most enjoy creating? What positive changes do you wish to make in peoples lives? In what ways do you want others (the world) to be better? Your answer defines the value you would experience the most joy in creating. It defines, the maximum value you can and wish to create. Where you create your maximum value, is from where you can receive the maximum value (i.e. income; satisfaction).
Second, where are the opportunities that are already there or you can make for you to create your value? Which organisations would most like to offer the value you can create for the benefit of their staff and/or customers? Who would you like most to work with to co-create the value you wish to create?
Story of the two cleaning ladies who work cleaning a large office in New York who were overheard talking in a lift:
First, says “I have a horribly boring job. I am unhappy.”
The second says “I have a wonderful job. Every day I see and meet all these people walking in the corridors. Most seem so stressed. I smile at them and say hello. More and more of them are smiling back at me. Some say hello. Some stop and talk. Most slow down after they pass me. I think they maybe a little less stressed. I hope so. I feel I’m making a difference. I so enjoy my work.”
It is not the work you do, it is what you bring to your work; that is what makes the difference! And the difference is you!
Work and Fulfillment February 2, 2007
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It is practically impossible to do what you like doing and it’s not becoming work.
I assume you mean that doing “what you like” and “work” are different. They can be very different and very the same.
All work is transformed by what you bring of yourself to the work. Your satisfaction (fulfillment) comes from bringing your value into what you do. Then it no longer seems like “work.” It can require much effort and be very satisfying. It can require little effort and be very unsatisfying.
The more you can bring your inspiration, motivations, thoughts and actions into whatever you do, the more satisfying it is.
To know what you want to do, first know yourself (your value) and the value you wish to create through what you do.
What makes work feel like work?
Is it because it is boring? If so, why?
Is it stressful? If so, why?
Does it require too little from me? Work may keep us very busy expressing only one of our abilities. We may have much more to offer. If we do, we may feel frustrated and undervalued.
Experiencing “work” feeling like “work” is an excellent opportunity for you to ask yourself “why” and what would it take from you for “work” not to feel like “work”. When you discover this, you are discovering how you can be more of who you are, and that is enjoyable! That opens the way for you to create your highest value.
If Everybody Did What They Wanted January 31, 2007
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You were talking about the woman that decided to sell flowers for a living, because that’s what she loved the most. At some point that woman hired her neighbor because she wanted to do something else (work in the flower shop and later with her friend). My question is: What is with the neighbor? She was also getting 7€ per hour, working 5 days a week. What if the woman decides to fulfill her wishes? What if everybody would decide do what they want? Who would be the 7€ neighbor?
She had the choice of not working for $7.00 per hour or working for it. She accepted because the work was only a few meters from her home and she could therefore supervise her children.
What were her wishes? If it is not her wish to work for the flower lady for $7.00 per hour, what were her wishes? She had the power to offer to work for:
- Less pay
- No pay
- A per unit rate
- A share of the profits
- Flowers which she could then on-sell
- Goods (i.e. petrol, groceries) or services
What if everybody decides to do what they want?
