Delightful Work

At six years old, I was a wild little rascal who liked to try out studio wrestling moves on my unsuspecting friends. I was fearless back then in an untamed kind of way. But gradually my wild spirit got crushed in my upbringing.

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You are smarter, more capable and far better off than you think you are, but only when you decide to connect to your deep well of waiting wisdom within.

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Making decisions is essential to success. Without a decision, we cannot follow through and complete.

This truth seems so basic and obvious. Why then do so many get so hung up in daily indecision? I’m sure you know that completing priority items is optimum. But decision making requires courage and sometimes we’d rather distract ourselves than choose.

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I want to inspire you to do something today out of the raw, unblemished core of who you are. I want to encourage you to act for one week, one day or even one hour, as if there were nothing wrong with you. I want you to boldly go where no man or woman has gone because only you can walk your path.

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We must stand tall and speak up or our silence will make us poor. Money is attracted to confidence. Attractive confidence is the direct connection between authenticity and financial prosperity.

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I was eleven years old, watching The Three Stooges, on a fall afternoon. I heard a loud insistent knock at the back door and, upon opening it, I saw my neighbor, Little Larry, all out of breath and crying. A hunter mistakenly shot his dog Lobo. Lobo was suffering and needed help.

Larry’s family didn’t own a gun and he knew that my Dad did. But I was the only one home and I had played with Lobo. I was torn and afraid and I didn’t want to do it. I just wanted to cry like Larry was, or run from the responsibility. The last thing I wanted to do was to feel my feelings.

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We ask this question to check for understanding. We can also gain insight by questioning ourselves. When grasping new knowledge, it’s useful to both discover what we are newly aware of and then to express that realization.

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Working in a job you hate kills your spirit and drains your energy. But you’ll never escape the hell you’re in by bitching and moaning about it.

What we focus on, expands. What we give our attention to; we get more of. What we look at, whether it is pleasing or upsetting, becomes our focus point of expansion. When considering a career transition, everything we resist persists – because we are giving it our attention. It doesn’t matter if your boss is stealing all your good ideas; by complaining about it, you are keeping yourself locked in the same prison.

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I’ve found delightful work to be an illusive experience for many folks. Often it’s more effective to approach the discovery of delightful work in multiple and varied ways. Sometimes we need to sneak up on our own minds to extract the wisdom within. Other times we can set an intention and go for a full frontal exploration. And sometimes it works well to release long-held beliefs in order to consider what might reveal itself.

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One of the most challenging aspects of career transitioning from work that feels like work, to work that you love, is temporarily letting go of the money. It’s just as challenging, when you’re already self-employed and transitioning from an established income stream to one that’s more delightful but temporarily less lucrative.

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