Wallace Wattles discusses getting into the “Right Business” as a process. First of all, we need to take a look at 1) what we are good at and 2) what we want to do. It’s very simple but often eludes us. How many people are doing what they said they wanted to do when they were kids? If you are one of those who make a living doing what you love, PLEASE comment below.
But the rest of us usually lose our childhood fantasy somewhere between college and kids. We allow ourselves to become convinced that it reasonable to make a living doing what we love and opt for “stability”. Then someday, we finally realize that “stability” outside ourselves is an illusion.
In his White Paper on “The Illusion of Stability”, Dyke Suematsu says “Every time our definition of the world changes, our conceptions of who we are change, and vice versa. This schism is, like everything else, a binary pair that is dynamically and constantly shifting like a yin and yang symbol. It makes us play the game of stabilizing and destabilizing. And, it unnecessarily causes us to struggle and suffer.”
The idea of a commissioned sales job was the furthest thing from my mind when I graduated from Wayne State University in 1984. I wanted stability. By 1991, I had a salaried job as a corporate Trainer when realized that politics is more important than performance on the corporate ladder. Even then I had little patience for deceptive practices of ass-kissing and bribery. So I took the leap of faith that changed my life forever.
Fast forward 17 years. My husband, long-time friends and my connection to perfect music partners came directly from the mortgage business. Now, during the mortgage meltdown, record high unemployment and yesterday’s stock market crash, I know that the stability I sought as a college student doesn’t exist. When the mortgage business no longer became my Right Way to make a living, it went away.
The monthly cycle of bills often has us in a hurry for our right vocation to show up. Wallace Wattles says that whenever we feel we are rushing, stop. A hasty decision or one made out of fear is often the wrong one. He says that we should never engage in what we don’t like to do unless it is required to do the things we want to do. In other words, when the bills are coming due and the savings is dwindling, take the best opportunity available to you so that you may be further led toward doing what you want.
At New Dimensions Media, there is a MP3 by Marsha Sintar called “Right Living and Making Money Too!”. She says “Living your dream and following your heart are possible for anyone willing to engage life with passion, according to Sinetar, an organizational psychologist, who has studied many people who have become successful doing what they love. Self-esteem, overcoming resistance, accepting and forgiving oneself, taking risks and more are addressed in this visionary yet practical view of merging life and work. The mainstream definition of success undergoes a considerable metamorphosis in this dialogue.”
What do you want to do?
But the rest of us usually lose our childhood fantasy somewhere between college and kids. We allow ourselves to become convinced that it reasonable to make a living doing what we love and opt for “stability”. Then someday, we finally realize that “stability” outside ourselves is an illusion.
In his White Paper on “The Illusion of Stability”, Dyke Suematsu says “Every time our definition of the world changes, our conceptions of who we are change, and vice versa. This schism is, like everything else, a binary pair that is dynamically and constantly shifting like a yin and yang symbol. It makes us play the game of stabilizing and destabilizing. And, it unnecessarily causes us to struggle and suffer.”
The idea of a commissioned sales job was the furthest thing from my mind when I graduated from Wayne State University in 1984. I wanted stability. By 1991, I had a salaried job as a corporate Trainer when realized that politics is more important than performance on the corporate ladder. Even then I had little patience for deceptive practices of ass-kissing and bribery. So I took the leap of faith that changed my life forever.
Fast forward 17 years. My husband, long-time friends and my connection to perfect music partners came directly from the mortgage business. Now, during the mortgage meltdown, record high unemployment and yesterday’s stock market crash, I know that the stability I sought as a college student doesn’t exist. When the mortgage business no longer became my Right Way to make a living, it went away.
The monthly cycle of bills often has us in a hurry for our right vocation to show up. Wallace Wattles says that whenever we feel we are rushing, stop. A hasty decision or one made out of fear is often the wrong one. He says that we should never engage in what we don’t like to do unless it is required to do the things we want to do. In other words, when the bills are coming due and the savings is dwindling, take the best opportunity available to you so that you may be further led toward doing what you want.
At New Dimensions Media, there is a MP3 by Marsha Sintar called “Right Living and Making Money Too!”. She says “Living your dream and following your heart are possible for anyone willing to engage life with passion, according to Sinetar, an organizational psychologist, who has studied many people who have become successful doing what they love. Self-esteem, overcoming resistance, accepting and forgiving oneself, taking risks and more are addressed in this visionary yet practical view of merging life and work. The mainstream definition of success undergoes a considerable metamorphosis in this dialogue.”
What do you want to do?