Your Life's Work - Part 2

Too many of us give in to this vicious cycle. We know what we do on a daily basis isn't good for us, but we don't know how to get out of it.

I have a friend with a heart of gold. She does missionary work in Bangladesh, she helps refugees, and she also sells carbonated drinks for a living - something we not only don't need, but is bad for us. She has a gentle soul that feels pain and frustration when she sees suffering and how greed for material needs eats into our society. But yet, she is nourishing the very thing that upsets her by contributing to work towards provoking more non-essential (possibly even harmful) material need in people.

She would love to help people for a living and she could very well choose to, but fear often holds us back.

I could choose to write for a living and share my journey as I heighten my awareness, but fear slows me down. How will I make a living?

The truth is we can easily make more then just a living. We could create and lead richer lives.

If my friend focused her efforts on helping others build their lives, how would she not be able to make one for herself? Resources abound at her finger tips - just as someone who teaches others to fish is bound to know how to fish for oneself.

I could easily venture into writing. I know writers who started with little to no experience. Some come from completely different backgrounds – Accounting, HR, Law.

Literature is everywhere – pamphlets, flyers, websites – and writers are needed to fill these pages. I could resign from my job right now and join a writing school in Bangsar. I could approach everyone I know who has a remote link into the writing world and offer to take on jobs as a freelance writer. The first year might not bring much (or any) income, but I’d have opened some pretty big flood gates of opportunity.

So, what’s holding me back? One; my parents would worry themselves sick. And two; I’ve been indoctrinated to believe that I need a secure job – which I sorta have now.

Our society has trained us to believe that we NEED ‘standard’ secure jobs just as much as we need cars, houses, television sets, Ipods, Omega watches, Channel bags, and Coach purses, when what we really need is pretty much to fill our tummy's and protect ourselves from harsh climates. I.e. we only REALLY need food and shelter. Everything else is what we've been told we need to survive and succeed in life. Everything else on top of that is just stirrings of desire from clever marketing ploys for luxuries we feel we absolutely have to have.

The more we give in to what society deems ‘right’ the more it becomes our reality.

What if there was no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’?

What if reality wasn’t created yet and what if you were in charge of creating reality?

What would you do if you could start on a blank canvas?