An Hour with Rick & Tami

Sounds True’s founder and guiding light, Tami Simon, interviews Rick Jarow on her latest podcast. Hear this conversation between colleagues whose journey has been intertwined for years via their respective work they love:

http://www.soundstrue.com/podcast/?p=1234

Transcript of this interview also available.

The Life We Want to Lead

The video linked below on mortgage foreclosure practices challenges any reductive or ego-centered notion of Creating the Work You Love.

It is quite possible that the same people who press for foreclosures that can ruin other peoples’ lives, go to church, give money to charity, and attend local school board meetings. They just have agreed to see “work” in a similar way that our industrial culture has agreed to see the use of animals as a food source: as something “out there,” as an object separate from “me and my intimates,” as an arena where exploitation and slaughter do not count. After all, “that’s why they call it work.”

The effort to develop “Right Livelihood” needs to be integrated with the effort to develop a just and sustainable culture. Placing work in the realm of “war” and “hunting” is one strategy that may have its place, but it is not the only way to envision working. The same mortgage brokerage and broker my dedicate their work energy toward the mission of keeping people in their homes. There is just not that much reward for it apparently, but you do have to look at yourself in the mirror every day. The very foundation of Abundance is your conscience. If your heart cannot get on board with what you are doing, get out before your wings atrophy, before you accept defeat in the form of mere comfort. I ask the brokerages, “Is this the best you can do?” Creating the Work You Love might be more aptly phrased, live and work your conscience. The stakes are too high for anything else.

http://www.consumerwarningnetwork.com/2008/07/02/mortgage-servicers-secret/

Some Inconvenient Truths about Creating the Work You Love

Creating the Work You Love is really not about work, per se. It is about your life. Work is one arena where the principles of alignment and manifestation come into process. Complaints about “the job,” “the boss,” about “there not being anything that catches your passion,” or about the “evils of the economy,” (etc.) are basically disempowering. No one owes you anything! No one owes you a job, or food, or health care, for that matter.

Loving your work is not a right, it is a challenge; you have choices and every choice, like every thought creates the next moment, which translates into the environment you live in. No one will give you “Right Livelihood,” you have to take it! You take it with the burning fire of your will, with the determination to live your ideal, with the resolve to pull yourself up and out of wage slavery and do something with your precious life that is authentic and meaningful for you, and that can be communicated to others.

It may take all your strength of character to leave behind the distractions offered by the commercial media, to let go of the seductive illusions of more money or “success.” But this strength is the voice of your Spirit to be who you are. Such strength of character knows what success is for you; knows where to uncover the peace in your heart, and knows that having the space and time to share your being with others, to be creative, to love the flowers, and to move into the ever present bliss of creative flow is worth infinitely more than anything offered by the scarcity-driven, machine laden, always –in- a- hurry to get somewhere, facsimile world. As Mary Oliver puts it in her poem, The Journey, “One day, you finally knew what you had to do, and began…”

In peace and freedom,

Rick Jarow

= THIS WEEKEND =

Learn how to develop your authentic vocation and discover the art and science of creating abundance in every area of your life. I’m offering the last two entry-level workshops of the year at the Open Center in New York City this weekend, on October 3 and 4, 2009: “Creating the Work You Love,” on Saturday, October 3, and “The Practice of Abundance,” on Sunday, October 4.

“Creating the Work You Love” reveals how to open the doors of inspiration, transform your desires into action, and find the motivation and discipline to develop your authentic vocation.

“The Practice of Abundance” focuses on how to manifest your dreams and intuitions in the physical world, and get the money, time, support, and resources to do what you want to do.

Both workshops are highly experiential and show you how to connect to your fundamental sense of well-being and live in a conscious flow with the powers of creation. Registration is $120 for members of the Open Center and $130 for non-members.

For more information on these workshops and to register, go to: http://www.opencenter.org/ or call the Open Center at 212.219.2527.