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I admire you for writing this out and asking for advice. Sometimes the best way to figure something out is by trying and failing.
What you’re missing is alignment with your truest self and faith in the path. Your truest self isn’t what you do it’s what you love. If you need faith find people who have already gone a bit farther on the path and listen to their stories.
Who are you?
You love nourishing your body and disciplining it by challenging it beyond what it’s capable of. You enjoy sweating and being in pain. You enjoy the pride that comes from having that discipline, for taking excellent care of your body. You have an engaging relationship with exercise.
As far as work goes..you don’t love a lot of it. You flirt with ideas but you aren’t dedicated. It’s a shallow relationship. You’re not giving yourself time to connect fully with any one idea enough to value it. You’re doubting your relationship with work because it might not be worth your investment. You might not get back something as valuable as your time. But how valuable is your time worth right now..?
Finding a career or business is very much like finding a friend. It’s NOT like finding a family or a wife or a soulmate. You’re going to have lots of friends in your life, hopefully, not just one.
How does friendship work? You introduce yourself, find similarities, meet regularly, make each other happy or content by exchanging energy and then... BECAUSE you are happy with this person you then say “Oh yea this is my best mate” And you keep being friends.
What you’re saying about trying and failing is that you keep meeting a bunch of great “people” (paths or careers or businesses) but that when it comes down to deciding if you really want to invest in them and be a better friend by hanging out more often with them, you stop and give up and say - “meh. They’re not worth my time because who knows if I’m supposed to be wasting my time with that kind of friend?!?”
But right now you have no friends. So.. that sucks.
You aren’t magically meant to do just one thing in this universe. Your “calling” if you choose to believe in such a thing isn’t to be a roofer or an insurance salesperson or an entreperneur or a teacher. Your calling is to bring love and focus and commitment and precision into the world by being a person of love and focus and commitment and precision.
Which business sparks your desire? None of them? GOOD. Businesses aren’t girlfriends. They’re friends. Which business do you want to be a friend with? Which business do you think will laugh at your stupid jokes and bail you out of jail at 2am? Which business will you be happy to introduce to your other friends and family? Which business will you prefer over your other friends?
What you’re missing is alignment with your truest self and faith in the path. Your truest self isn’t what you do it’s what you love. If you need faith find people who have already gone a bit farther on the path and listen to their stories.
Who are you?
You love nourishing your body and disciplining it by challenging it beyond what it’s capable of. You enjoy sweating and being in pain. You enjoy the pride that comes from having that discipline, for taking excellent care of your body. You have an engaging relationship with exercise.
As far as work goes..you don’t love a lot of it. You flirt with ideas but you aren’t dedicated. It’s a shallow relationship. You’re not giving yourself time to connect fully with any one idea enough to value it. You’re doubting your relationship with work because it might not be worth your investment. You might not get back something as valuable as your time. But how valuable is your time worth right now..?
Finding a career or business is very much like finding a friend. It’s NOT like finding a family or a wife or a soulmate. You’re going to have lots of friends in your life, hopefully, not just one.
How does friendship work? You introduce yourself, find similarities, meet regularly, make each other happy or content by exchanging energy and then... BECAUSE you are happy with this person you then say “Oh yea this is my best mate” And you keep being friends.
What you’re saying about trying and failing is that you keep meeting a bunch of great “people” (paths or careers or businesses) but that when it comes down to deciding if you really want to invest in them and be a better friend by hanging out more often with them, you stop and give up and say - “meh. They’re not worth my time because who knows if I’m supposed to be wasting my time with that kind of friend?!?”
But right now you have no friends. So.. that sucks.
You aren’t magically meant to do just one thing in this universe. Your “calling” if you choose to believe in such a thing isn’t to be a roofer or an insurance salesperson or an entreperneur or a teacher. Your calling is to bring love and focus and commitment and precision into the world by being a person of love and focus and commitment and precision.
Which business sparks your desire? None of them? GOOD. Businesses aren’t girlfriends. They’re friends. Which business do you want to be a friend with? Which business do you think will laugh at your stupid jokes and bail you out of jail at 2am? Which business will you be happy to introduce to your other friends and family? Which business will you prefer over your other friends?
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