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/