Our Deepest Fear
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us.
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Our Deepest Fear....
So the last post just brought to mind the below piece by Marianne Williamson. Remember the movie coach Carter? Yeah, that same piece. This is one poem that wrongly accredited to many people....Nelson Mandela, The Dalai Lama, Michael Jackson....I'm pretty sure someone slipped in Wayne Rooney there once! (okay, I joke, I kid!). But seriously, this poem and the previous post kind of relate! Enjoy! :)
For the love of..........
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” That is what that wise man Confucius said.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.....admittedly, it sounds a bit exaggerated, and not to be taken literally - but he has a point. The struggle that many 20-something year olds (and even older) go through is trying to find what really drives them. You wake up in the morning and slip into your normal routine, get to work and do what you do daily, then head back home without once feeling like you will burst at the seams from excitement. This is the cycle that many have considered the norm, so much that they see nothing wrong with it. Others spend time trying to search, find and figure out what it is that is their passion, what it is that they should be doing. But here's what I realised - you're wasting time searching for something that could easily be staring at you right in the face. The only reason you don't notice or realise this is that you spend your time calling it a hobby.
There is that one thing that gives you a rush while you're doing it....that one thing which excites you, but you find that you do not even realise that this is where your calling is, because you're spending too much time trying find yourself (whatever that means). And don't get me wrong....I love to eat, I love to sleep, but my destiny most definitely is not to break world eating records, or to be the world's greatest bed-tester. But I do wish to spend my life doing the things I love the most - to explore and to exploit that passion. We spend endless amounts of time indulging in things that give us pleasure - but never consider to turn those into our pay-cheques. We doubt ourselves. We are unsure of our abilities. We live in a society that tells us what to do. We don't dare to break the barrier.We don't dare to step out of the norm. We fear failure............we fear failure. And in that, we eventually fail to be happy.
Maybe now is the time to change all of that......reset, refocus, realign! Let your heart guide you. Take a leap of faith. Do it....what you want...DO IT!!
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.....admittedly, it sounds a bit exaggerated, and not to be taken literally - but he has a point. The struggle that many 20-something year olds (and even older) go through is trying to find what really drives them. You wake up in the morning and slip into your normal routine, get to work and do what you do daily, then head back home without once feeling like you will burst at the seams from excitement. This is the cycle that many have considered the norm, so much that they see nothing wrong with it. Others spend time trying to search, find and figure out what it is that is their passion, what it is that they should be doing. But here's what I realised - you're wasting time searching for something that could easily be staring at you right in the face. The only reason you don't notice or realise this is that you spend your time calling it a hobby.
There is that one thing that gives you a rush while you're doing it....that one thing which excites you, but you find that you do not even realise that this is where your calling is, because you're spending too much time trying find yourself (whatever that means). And don't get me wrong....I love to eat, I love to sleep, but my destiny most definitely is not to break world eating records, or to be the world's greatest bed-tester. But I do wish to spend my life doing the things I love the most - to explore and to exploit that passion. We spend endless amounts of time indulging in things that give us pleasure - but never consider to turn those into our pay-cheques. We doubt ourselves. We are unsure of our abilities. We live in a society that tells us what to do. We don't dare to break the barrier.We don't dare to step out of the norm. We fear failure............we fear failure. And in that, we eventually fail to be happy.
Maybe now is the time to change all of that......reset, refocus, realign! Let your heart guide you. Take a leap of faith. Do it....what you want...DO IT!!
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