Comments on: You Feel How You Think, Not How You Are http://www.newstasis.com/2008/09/20/you-feel-how-you-think-not-how-you-are/ helping you find a better life one state at a time Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:26:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Pat http://www.newstasis.com/2008/09/20/you-feel-how-you-think-not-how-you-are/#comment-1702 Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:00:40 +0000 http://www.newstasis.com/2008/09/20/you-feel-how-you-think-not-how-you-are/#comment-1702 Thank you for your comment Rachel. You raise a great point that most people never become aware of let alone consider - we find our purpose through living life, we are not born with it. You and the cleaning lady have identified their purpose and pursue it with passion. Most people move through life with a need for passion but having never found what it is they are truly passionate about. As a consequence they approach the filler / necessary stuff in their lives - work, relationships, driving, eating, etc... - with this passion. They never find fulfillment in getting good at these things because they don't really care that much about them; misdirected passion create excellence but not necessarily happiness. Lucky are the ones who are able to identify what they love and do whatever is needed to allow them the time to pursue it. You will never work a day in your life is you are able to make a career out of your passion and it sounds like you are well on your way to making that a reality. Pat Thank you for your comment Rachel. You raise a great point that most people never become aware of let alone consider - we find our purpose through living life, we are not born with it. You and the cleaning lady have identified their purpose and pursue it with passion.

Most people move through life with a need for passion but having never found what it is they are truly passionate about. As a consequence they approach the filler / necessary stuff in their lives - work, relationships, driving, eating, etc… - with this passion. They never find fulfillment in getting good at these things because they don’t really care that much about them; misdirected passion create excellence but not necessarily happiness.

Lucky are the ones who are able to identify what they love and do whatever is needed to allow them the time to pursue it. You will never work a day in your life is you are able to make a career out of your passion and it sounds like you are well on your way to making that a reality.

Pat

]]> by: Rachel Leroux http://www.newstasis.com/2008/09/20/you-feel-how-you-think-not-how-you-are/#comment-1638 Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:24:05 +0000 http://www.newstasis.com/2008/09/20/you-feel-how-you-think-not-how-you-are/#comment-1638 Amazing Patrick! One creates the world they inhabit. I too struggled with this concept until about a year ago when I engaged a cleaning lady who works at G4S, the company I dispatch for. The cleaning lady's primary responsibility is cleaning the toilet then the air vents and she works nights. When I see her she is always happy and seems to be content with what she is doing. I struggled for a while as I watched her trying to understand how she can be happy being a cleaner and how can she feel fulfillment in her life cleaning the most uncleanly of surfaces. I asked her one day “how do you find happiness in your position as you are always singing and smiling?” She replied with” do you judge me with what I do?”. I said “no” and she replied once more with “this is an easy job which allows me to have and do the freedoms I wish to do. Would anyone work if they had to? She said those hours, the pay coincided with her life in that it game her freedom during the day to spend with her family and do her real passion, painting. She aid it was just something she did to fund her passions.” This invoked my mind and turned the world 180 degrees in my mind to make me realize that I am lucky as I have found my p[passion in Athletic Therapy! Not only is it a career for me but a passion and yes I would treat people for free if I knew I could somehow survive from that. The cleaning lady allowed herself to create a world in which she placed her energy into painting and her family and that cleaning was just something she did to make her real dreams come true. To me this was earth moving as I have the choice to create a world where I can be happy if I choose to be doing anything I do as long as I can recognize my passions and still make time for them. There are only limitations if we choose there to be and rather setbacks are merely challenges. I have the choice to be happy in the heae and now and am lucky to be living in a country which allows me to even practice my passions. I am living in my day dreams as I believe the cleaning lady is as well. Amazing Patrick! One creates the world they inhabit. I too struggled with this concept until about a year ago when I engaged a cleaning lady who works at G4S, the company I dispatch for.
The cleaning lady’s primary responsibility is cleaning the toilet then the air vents and she works nights. When I see her she is always happy and seems to be content with what she is doing. I struggled for a while as I watched her trying to understand how she can be happy being a cleaner and how can she feel fulfillment in her life cleaning the most uncleanly of surfaces.
I asked her one day “how do you find happiness in your position as you are always singing and smiling?” She replied with” do you judge me with what I do?”. I said “no” and she replied once more with “this is an easy job which allows me to have and do the freedoms I wish to do. Would anyone work if they had to? She said those hours, the pay coincided with her life in that it game her freedom during the day to spend with her family and do her real passion, painting. She aid it was just something she did to fund her passions.”
This invoked my mind and turned the world 180 degrees in my mind to make me realize that I am lucky as I have found my p[passion in Athletic Therapy! Not only is it a career for me but a passion and yes I would treat people for free if I knew I could somehow survive from that. The cleaning lady allowed herself to create a world in which she placed her energy into painting and her family and that cleaning was just something she did to make her real dreams come true. To me this was earth moving as I have the choice to create a world where I can be happy if I choose to be doing anything I do as long as I can recognize my passions and still make time for them. There are only limitations if we choose there to be and rather setbacks are merely challenges. I have the choice to be happy in the heae and now and am lucky to be living in a country which allows me to even practice my passions. I am living in my day dreams as I believe the cleaning lady is as well.

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