By the Ocean
Birds Are Already Up 72 Degrees
5:47 a.m.
When you go to all the trouble of merging your “work” with your purpose on this plane, the line between life and work starts to blur. Eventually, it disappears.
What exactly do you call the activity you do with others that makes you feel alive?
Is that “work?”
Does that change if it brings you money?
Is THAT “work?”
What actually does the word work mean?
Are you working when you’re raising children? Are you working when you’re talking to your spouse? Are you working when you’re driving to the beach?
The dictionary says “work” has to do with effort or exertion used to accomplish something. Or that it’s about employment and your livelihood. Or it’s about labor or toil.
None of those sounds fun at all! Who would want to do that?
If that is what work is, no wonder people are tired after a full day of it.
But that’s not what I’m talking about.
I’m talking about the activity where you solve problems for other people, walk away with more energy than you had before AND have money pop out as a byproduct. What should we call THAT?
Some people call it business, but I’m not sure that’s right. A lot of business people don’t care what they have to do to get money. They’ll work 26 hours a day, watch their most valued relationships crumble, ignore every facet of their health…completely sidestep any clues that something is out of balance…because…success….do whatever it takes…suck it up…blah, blah, blah.
This is a new way of navigating the material plane. Where the value you hold on the inside becomes the value you see on the outside. And that alchemical process actually provides joy and contentment to you while you’re doing it.
Maybe we should just call it magic. Because that’s probably the most accurate word for what’s going on.
Is that even legal? Are we allowed to do this? Won’t the teacher come and tell us we have to be miserable like everyone else?
The lines between work, play and life are fake. They were put there by someone else and we were told to believe them.
Those lines suck. And they lead to misery. Just look around for proof.
The problem is, you’ll only see it when you believe it. And that’s the hard part. Believing it can be another way is the obstacle between where you’re at and everything you want.
Once that belief is in place. Once you allow yourself to imagine BETTER for YOU, then you start walking. And with that first step you complete what is actually the hardest part of the entire journey.