As you may or may not know, I've been working on a new book, tentatively titled Find Your Passion, Live Your Bliss. Well, after reading a recent e-mail from Brian Johnson, founder of en*theos, I have modified that to Giving Service, Finding Bliss.
Brian's message is that e-mail, which introduced the Craftsman mindset as espoused by Cal Newport in his book So Good They Can't Ignore You, is that you find your bliss by creating value, by providing service.
A quote from Cal Newport's book goes like this:
"Whereas the craftsman mindset focuses on what you can offer the world, the passion mindset focuses on what the world can offer you."
Brian also asks the question, "How can you serve more profoundly?"
One of the reasons I am happy and content in my current job is that I feel like I am truly serving the people I work for and with to the best of my ability. Coming home at the end of the day tired because I've done my job well is a much different feeling that coming home drained due to office politics and the feeling you can never do anything right and/or what we do doesn't serve the right purpose, or any purpose at all.
So, my question to you is, "How are you serving profoundly?"
If you are not serving profoundly, what can you do to change that right here, right now so you can move down the path to living your best life now?
Next week, we will finish out the month by exploring the myth of multitasking.
Until next time, Namaste!
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Tuesday, September 22, 2015
Monday, July 6, 2015
MaXIMIze - Career - Find Your Next Mountain
Wow! I look over my posts from last year on the topic of careers and I don't know how I can top those!
Sort of fits the theme of this post - Find Your Next Mountain.
I think we've all been there (and if you haven't, you will)…that time and space where you feel you've hit the pinnacle of the job you're currently in. For me, that was in the months following my last performance appraisal, when I got the highest rating we can get in our appraisal system - a 1 - out of a scale of 5, with 3 being fully successful. When we did our mid-year reviews a month or so ago, I realized that I had hit a pinnacle and the saying followed soon after that - Find Your Next Mountain.
I spoke with a co-worker in the the elevator this morning - he hasn't got to the summit of his mountain yet. How could I tell? Because his job hasn't settled into a flow yet. Yes, when you hit that Zen flow in your current position, where everything just comes together and feels easy or right, it's time to find your next mountain.
At least, that is one time - one good time - to find your next mountain.
A not-so-good time is when you are going through the opposite - trying to support something you feel you truly cannot support anymore. When the other players are just too frustrating, and management may or may not be waking up to this not being a good thing, and/or it just compromises your value system to the breaking point - and, burn out is setting in.
This is a time to do two things - take a serious sabbatical and find your next mountain.
It's easier to find your next mountain when your job has become flow.
It is much harder when you feel like you are continually fighting the current and get to a point where you wonder if it's anything really worth fighting for anymore.
When you are exhausted from fighting the current in this way, you really need to find a way to pull back and reconnect with what makes you feel alive again. You need to find your passion, your purpose in life again.
Our careers take so much of our lives and are our physical - monetarily - support for our lives, and we need to be fulfilled in them, otherwise we live a half-life instead of a full one.
The best job is the one that doesn't feel like work. It feels like purpose. It feels like focus. It feels like, well, passion. And it gives us bliss.
If our jobs, our careers aren't doing that, it's time to find a new one.
Question to ponder for the week - if you could do any job in the world, what would you do and why?
Until next time, Namaste!
Sort of fits the theme of this post - Find Your Next Mountain.
I think we've all been there (and if you haven't, you will)…that time and space where you feel you've hit the pinnacle of the job you're currently in. For me, that was in the months following my last performance appraisal, when I got the highest rating we can get in our appraisal system - a 1 - out of a scale of 5, with 3 being fully successful. When we did our mid-year reviews a month or so ago, I realized that I had hit a pinnacle and the saying followed soon after that - Find Your Next Mountain.
I spoke with a co-worker in the the elevator this morning - he hasn't got to the summit of his mountain yet. How could I tell? Because his job hasn't settled into a flow yet. Yes, when you hit that Zen flow in your current position, where everything just comes together and feels easy or right, it's time to find your next mountain.
At least, that is one time - one good time - to find your next mountain.
A not-so-good time is when you are going through the opposite - trying to support something you feel you truly cannot support anymore. When the other players are just too frustrating, and management may or may not be waking up to this not being a good thing, and/or it just compromises your value system to the breaking point - and, burn out is setting in.
This is a time to do two things - take a serious sabbatical and find your next mountain.
It's easier to find your next mountain when your job has become flow.
It is much harder when you feel like you are continually fighting the current and get to a point where you wonder if it's anything really worth fighting for anymore.
When you are exhausted from fighting the current in this way, you really need to find a way to pull back and reconnect with what makes you feel alive again. You need to find your passion, your purpose in life again.
Our careers take so much of our lives and are our physical - monetarily - support for our lives, and we need to be fulfilled in them, otherwise we live a half-life instead of a full one.
The best job is the one that doesn't feel like work. It feels like purpose. It feels like focus. It feels like, well, passion. And it gives us bliss.
If our jobs, our careers aren't doing that, it's time to find a new one.
Question to ponder for the week - if you could do any job in the world, what would you do and why?
Until next time, Namaste!
Sunday, July 13, 2014
MaXIMIze - Career - Follow Your Passion, Find Your Bliss
When you focus on doing the things you do well, that bring you joy, you find your bliss.
When you focus on doing the things that bring fire into your life, you find your passion.
When you focus on all the above, you follow your passion and find your bliss.
I've written on this topic before, and will likely write on it again since part of my passion is helping others be the best they can be, and that means helping them follow their passion and find their bliss.
Is what you're doing right now feeding the fire inside? If not, you may like your work, but it still feels like a job rather than a vocation.
For some questions to consider while you're looking for your passion, see my post from December of last year on my previous blog page.
You can even create a Manifestation Board that shows concrete images and words connected to that which makes you feel alive, that which feeds your fire.
Here is a quote from The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand to consider:
"Why do they always teach us that it is easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves. It's the hardest thing in the world - to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage."
Do you have the courage to follow your passion and find your bliss?
Or are you content to live a lukewarm life?
The choice, as always, is yours.
Here are the links to my previous posts on the subject of passion and bliss:
More Questions To Consider
Finding Your Passion
Find Your Passion
Next week, we will discuss taking charge of your career.
Until then, Namaste!
When you focus on doing the things that bring fire into your life, you find your passion.
When you focus on all the above, you follow your passion and find your bliss.
I've written on this topic before, and will likely write on it again since part of my passion is helping others be the best they can be, and that means helping them follow their passion and find their bliss.
Is what you're doing right now feeding the fire inside? If not, you may like your work, but it still feels like a job rather than a vocation.
For some questions to consider while you're looking for your passion, see my post from December of last year on my previous blog page.
You can even create a Manifestation Board that shows concrete images and words connected to that which makes you feel alive, that which feeds your fire.
Here is a quote from The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand to consider:
"Why do they always teach us that it is easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves. It's the hardest thing in the world - to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage."
Do you have the courage to follow your passion and find your bliss?
Or are you content to live a lukewarm life?
The choice, as always, is yours.
Here are the links to my previous posts on the subject of passion and bliss:
More Questions To Consider
Finding Your Passion
Find Your Passion
Next week, we will discuss taking charge of your career.
Until then, Namaste!
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