Finding your work …

A dear late friend and mentor of mine had a saying:

“Everyone wants a job but no one wants to work.”

I like that saying but I lately find the opposite to be true for me. I don’t want a job; I only want to work.

We need jobs to pay for the stuff we think we need until or unless we find our work. If your work is raising a family than you definitely need that job but don’t forget about your work. Your work pays in infectious joy.

Here are examples of the work I am talking about …

Helping others, helping yourself; writing a personal journal, blog, a novel that will be translated into twenty-six languages, and everything in between; daily yoga and/or meditation practice, handling mental illness, handling addiction, dancing, acting, playing, sharing, learning, praying, being kind when you don’t have to; painting, hiking, sculpting, mentoring, coaching, serving, physical fitness, making peace, being love, and coming to understanding.

Notice something? If there is or was something you used to enjoy doing but fell off of it because someone told you it would never pay the bills you are on the right path to your work, my friend.

Finding your work can be tough. No one can show you. It is not promoted by western education systems. It is not supported by governments.

Your work is inside you begging you to release it. Your work is painful and beautiful and unique.

And when you find your work; the reward will be far greater than you ever imagined.

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“We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.

If we fix on the old, we get stuck.

When we hang onto any form; we are in danger of putrefaction.

Hell is life drying up.”

-Joseph Campbell