Monday, June 15, 2015

The work Era

I have sat on a subway and heard conversation from random strangers, walked on the streets of NYC at different times including during my morning and evening coffees, I've seen people walking their dogs and talk on their cell phones. The number one heated and controversial conversation I hear is regarding how they don't like their co-workers and on top of that hate their job, and the list basically goes on in these two areas. Well, at the crossroads of should and must (below blog) and all of the complaints I have reached one conclusion- complaints attracts complaints. For one thing you have to change your mindset then once you clear out that "kind-of" poison you need to choose a job that you love doing or the MUST.
I understand that you may not know the correct route or the right answer to this question, so it's best to leave it as is. Sometimes not knowing is better than knowing the answer and accepting that you are in a confusion mode. There is nothing wrong with confusion mode and for people who think there is something wrong, well the answer it simple. It's based on their insecurity. Insecurity hits many people and some people are hit with a storm to such an extent that judgement and increased fear conquers their soul. The good part is this has nothing to do with you. The simple awareness factor the secure holds against the insecure leads to integrity. A bit different in quality but both beautiful as one leads to another. That said, move forward, live life because you only really have one shot at it- Life is not a dressing room.
Don't allow petty things such as 'co-workers' , 'the ego', 'what they think and how they judge' affect your want, your character, your direction and most importantly your heart. Grab control of your thoughts before they influence your direction. Your thoughts create everything! The secret recipe of human programming.

Tuesday, June 2, 2015

BEA Discovery- A Cocoon on May 28th

The gaps and spaces in life all have meaning and every coincidence in life has a definition but should not be looked into a lot. I read a book yesterday specifying the distinction between job, career, and calling. Sometimes you get a job in order to work on things you love in life because you have to pay the bills. Then you have more bills to pay and you have to stay in that job even more until what you love to do and this "unwanted bill paying job" get to a break point.

Ultimately, the real mental awakening comes when red flags as to "What am I doing in this job?", "I have so much more potential!", "I am doing the work of 4 people!" or "This stuff is so, so, soo elementary for me!" or "My co-workers are so different than I and I feel useless" arise at work. Well, with loads of honesty ringing in I feel I've felt that I've had one or two of those phrases coming in and out at one time or the other. Well, the reality of the situation is simple. If you have a job you don't like try using your PM hours or weekends doing what you love until you can quit the job you don't like. Now, if the job you don't like eats up your time and doesn't allow you to do what you want to do then eventually you will forget about what you LOVE in life- your actually being- and go back doing what you "should" be doing and not what your being "must" be doing. Then you are simply not being you and are doing someone else's duties- the should. The should maybe something your parents drilled into your head or society has pressured you to become or do.

Sometimes that gap or that space of doing what you don't really want to do but are doing it to get closer to your shoulds clears and polishes the path to what your MUST is. It is a bridge, a polisher, a learning curve, but never compromise your Must for the Shoulds in life.

Must is like being in love. When you Know, you know. — Elle Luna


Check out the crossroads of Should & Must on Elle Luna's article that quickly went viral!


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