- Cover via AmazonDo People Struggle With Success
Is This Why People Struggle With Finding Fulfilling Work
I know this subject may not be terribly cool to talk about but in order to bring it out of the dark we must shed our light on the topic.
Do you tell yourself there are so many excuses as to why you can’t make a living with your passion as apposed to why you can? Let me mention why I ask the question…
While reading last night I came across this amazing passage in Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth that I believe beautifully illustrates what happens with so many of us when we find ourselves not fulfilled in our work:
“I have also met many others who may be technically good at what they do but who’s ego constantly sabotages their work. Only part of their attention is on themselves. Their ego demands personal recognition and wastes energy in resentment if it doesn’t get enough – and it’s never enough. “Is someone else getting more recognition than me?” Or their main focus of attention is profit or power and their work is no more than a means to that end.
When work is no more than a means to an end, it cannot be of high quality. When obstacles or difficulties arise in their work, when things don’t go according to expectation, when other people or circumstances are not helpful or cooperative, instead of immediately becoming one with the new situation and responding to the requirements of the present moment, they react against the situation and so separate themselves from it. There is a “me” that feels personally offended or resentful, and a huge amount of energy is burned up in useless protest or anger, energy that could be used for solving the situation if it were not being misused by the ego. What is more, this “anti”-energy creates new obstacles & new opposition. Many people are truly their own worst enemy.
Cooperation is alien to the ego, except when there is a secondary motive.”
Is Your Work Fulfilling
- Do you feel you’re living your purpose through your work or is what you do currently fulfilling and why?
- How did you find it?
- How do you know it is what you’re meant to do?
- When did you know?
- Did you over come the excuse of the current economy and kick out the crutch?
- Why & How? Ok this is really 2 questions 🙂
If you have answers to these questions, I for one would love to hear them. There are so many people that are searching for these answers right. I have a few answers however I’m asking for your input.
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# Do you feel you’re living your purpose through your work or is what you do currently fulfilling and why?
My work as a blogger (I also have a part-time job at the moment) is fulfilling my purpose of shedding light.
# How did you find it?
My parter saw an ad about blogging and suggested I try it out.
# How do you know it is what you’re meant to do?
It nourishes me – I feel enriched not depleted while doing it.
# When did you know?
I felt excited as soon as I heard about it. By playing around with it and finding where I fitted and whether I could do it and that I could be myself doing it.
# Did you over come the excuse of the current economy and kick out the crutch?
I focus on doing what I can. The economy – and much else in our situation – is very real. The question is can we do something in this situation (however awful – and for some people at the moment it is very awful indeed).
# Why & How? Ok this is really 2 questions
For blogging it’s about making friends and providing value (my way of saying it). I’m experimenting with providing value through eBooks and seeing if I can get more search engine traffic by doing an adwords campaign for my next eBook. They why and how means dealing with the details of the situation (in my case getting more traffic to my website and blog and making more sales).
I do think for most of us that there are parts of our work that we do to achieve something else. I edit my stuff to make it clearer to people for instance. I don’t enjoy it as much as just getting the ideas out and organised but I do it because otherwise people get lost (saying things like, “Umm, could you explain the link between these ideas and not make so many jumps?”
# Do you feel you’re living your purpose through your work or is what you do currently fulfilling and why?
My work as a blogger (I also have a part-time job at the moment) is fulfilling my purpose of shedding light.
# How did you find it?
My parter saw an ad about blogging and suggested I try it out.
# How do you know it is what you’re meant to do?
It nourishes me – I feel enriched not depleted while doing it.
# When did you know?
I felt excited as soon as I heard about it. By playing around with it and finding where I fitted and whether I could do it and that I could be myself doing it.
# Did you over come the excuse of the current economy and kick out the crutch?
I focus on doing what I can. The economy – and much else in our situation – is very real. The question is can we do something in this situation (however awful – and for some people at the moment it is very awful indeed).
# Why & How? Ok this is really 2 questions
For blogging it’s about making friends and providing value (my way of saying it). I’m experimenting with providing value through eBooks and seeing if I can get more search engine traffic by doing an adwords campaign for my next eBook. They why and how means dealing with the details of the situation (in my case getting more traffic to my website and blog and making more sales).
I do think for most of us that there are parts of our work that we do to achieve something else. I edit my stuff to make it clearer to people for instance. I don’t enjoy it as much as just getting the ideas out and organised but I do it because otherwise people get lost (saying things like, “Umm, could you explain the link between these ideas and not make so many jumps?”
Wow Evan what a great set of responses!
I’ve seen you grow so much in your blogging over the past year and you certainly have done a lot of work to get there. I’m super excited for you and appreciate you sharing your wisdom & experience here at the site! I want more people to read your responses!
Wow Evan what a great set of responses!
I’ve seen you grow so much in your blogging over the past year and you certainly have done a lot of work to get there. I’m super excited for you and appreciate you sharing your wisdom & experience here at the site! I want more people to read your responses!
Thanks Tony.
Thanks Tony.
Tony,
what an inspiring post of yours. I feel privileged to have come accross your post through our fellow teaching friend David Risley. There is a lot I want to learn from bloggers like you and David and it is a pleasure to follow the conversation you are having with Evan. I take comfort from meeting men and women who are – and are like you.
I´ll send my followers in your direction.
Have a Perfect One
Mirko
Tony,
what an inspiring post of yours. I feel privileged to have come accross your post through our fellow teaching friend David Risley. There is a lot I want to learn from bloggers like you and David and it is a pleasure to follow the conversation you are having with Evan. I take comfort from meeting men and women who are – and are like you.
I´ll send my followers in your direction.
Have a Perfect One
Mirko
MIrko Thank you for the kind words. David Risley is an amazing blogger and even a better “person.” He lives what he teaches and is one reason I take great appreciation and respect of being his friend. I look forward to your input here at tonyteegarden dot com and look forward to sharing ideas!
MIrko Thank you for the kind words. David Risley is an amazing blogger and even a better “person.” He lives what he teaches and is one reason I take great appreciation and respect of being his friend. I look forward to your input here at tonyteegarden dot com and look forward to sharing ideas!