June 28, 2007 | Posted in: Leading Hartfully, Living Hartfully
In the past two weeks I’ve received a dozen phone calls and emails from others telling me of their life transitions and seeking a bridge from what they’ve been doing to what they want to be doing for the next phase of their life. Many have been doing what they think they ‘should’ have been doing, they either studied it in school, they were good at it, or they just got very comfortable, but now bored with it. Three of these people just quit their jobs and others told me they couldn’t believe how much energy they felt after their last day. It’s called FREEDOM. I just received an ezine that stated: employees commisserate and entrepreneurs brainstorm. Enough said on that one.
Note to self: just because you are good at something doesn’t meant you should be doing it as a career.
How do you know you are doing what you should be doing or to stop doing what you’ve been doing? It can be summed up from a passage from The Seat of the Soul:
“When the depest part of you becomes engaged in what you are doing, when your activities and actions become gratifying and purposeful, when what you do serves both yourself and others, when you do not tire within but seek the sweet satisfaction of your life and your work, you are doing what you were meant to be doing. The personality that is engaged in the work of it’s soul is bouyant. It is not burdened with negativity. It does not fear. It experiences purposefulness and meaning. It delights in its work and in others. It is fulifilled and fulfilling.”
As a person experiences “flow”, where their knowledge, skills, abilities and talents are met with the appropriate challenge, all time and space stand still – they are in the zone. That is when you know you are on the right path. When you take the Tingle Test – when you think about your profession and you get chills and tingles just thinking about a career move or an experience, you are on the right path. If the thought of that experience doesn’t move you or thrill you, then you are probably not moving towards your calling.
When you get antsy with your job, then start researching and journaling and finding the delicious intersection of what you love, what you’re good at and what the world needs and will pay for. When you’re on target, it will ignite your energy like you never dreamed.
Gaia Hart
As the CEO (Chief Energizing Officer) at Hartful Living including GaiaHart.com and BizBuilderCards.com; I’m a Messenger and Mentor for women entrepreneurs, connecting them to their capacity to energize their work and their lives in the art of living Hartfully. At BizBuilderCards.com, you can make a living through giving with greeting cards and gifts to build your network net worth as an additive to your current business or an easy way to send gratitude and kindness to the world.
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