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.
October 2, 2009 at 9:13 am
This “burning fire of your will” is a critical piece. It is a common phenomenon to have one’s fire dampened and snuffed by the emotional issues life brings. It can take a lot of excavation work to shovel out the damp, old ash to uncover that precious ember and fan it to life again! ~ and likely in a very NEW way than we once understood things to work. It is a new context we have to work with – and within – and our capacity to create is actually stronger than ever! With “thoughts creating” like greased lightning now — the challenge is to harness all these doubts and fears that we have to negotiate in the climate of the moment.
What helps me is my increasing sense that this is all a great hologram that our higher selves actually “play” in with an attitude of fun and adventure. It’s our street-level egoic ‘portions’ that get caught up in the fear, the lack, and then our powerful egos (and their wills) generate more of this… literally creating more of it to grapple with in each unfolding moment!
In my view, more vertical alignment (to the Great One higher up the bandwidth that is our source of all strength, power, and Love of what’s really Right for us to do/be/have) is the key. A practice of suspending oneself in the transdimensional space encompassing our expanded selves for inspiration, and Gaia for anchoring this inspiration in form (if the inspiration needs to be physically manifested, which may or may not be the case) is my current practice, with an overall attitude that this is all a contrived “mess” we are seeing as various structures around us collapse (it is time for them to go).
My perception is, we are vast Creator Beings beyond time and space who have a game of sorts going on here… and we are about to pass Go and collect a reward: the reward of true higher awareness re: how to live, love, and express Self in luminous, synchronistic flow.
(Rick’s post just inspired these ‘notes to my Self’ … that I kind of splashed out here to share! oxo ~W)
October 4, 2009 at 6:57 pm
I really resonated with this post. I believe that creating the work you love is connected to finding and living your purpose. Since we are all living during times of rapid change — having the information into “what makes you tick” will help you to stay grounded and to make conscious choices for yourself. You know what I’m talking about choices like, “Will this job make me happy?” “Is it aligned with my mission and purpose?” “Is my potential move across the country one that will magnify or diminish my purpose?” Creating and taking your own unique livelihood is infinitely easier once there is clarity about your core and the essence of who you are.