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my passion?  What do I love to do?

After many years of thinking of myself as a biologist, I said,  "This job doesn't quite fit me.  I am limiting my own potential by being in it."    I was afraid to leave my job because it was comfortable, because it was status quo.  And yet I felt as though there was something wrong. When I first thought about doing spirituality in the workplace as a job or a career, the barrier I raised was..."but how am I going to make a living doing this?" 

Once I started taking action to do my vocation, synchronistic events followed one after another so that I could be well-paid for my work by doing keynote speeches at conferences and management consulting and corporate coaching  of clients on spirituality in the workplace. 

I have met people who have told me that they fear concentrating on themselves because it might be selfish.   Others have said that they fear that if they look at themselves and their lives, they might not like what they see. Our lives are made up of many cycles of mental, emotional, spiritual and physical birth, growth, maturity, death and rebirth.  During these cycles, we can choose to focus on ourselves and do some self-exploration or not.  However, we cannot be fully of service to ourselves and to others if we don't know who we are.   If we don't like who we are and what our lives looks like, then we have the opportunity to change. The ongoing investigation of the question, "Who am I in this moment?" keeps life lively and exciting. 

Life is a continuing process of experience, integration and consolidation of our  experiences.  We can continually discover and express our natural gifts, abilities and personal values.  We can choose work that is aligned with who we have become and who we are becoming in life.

We are human and cosmic beings having both a human and cosmic experience of body, mind and spirit at home and at work.  By knowing the intricate fabric of who we are, we can appreciate just how special we all are.  We each play an important role in the unfolding plan of the universe.

Exercises:

Spend time by yourself, reflecting and taking stock.  Ask questions of yourself.  Write an autobiography and organize it thematically.  What are the great passions of your life which bring you joy?   Write down the Peak experiences of your life.  How did you feel when you were experiencing these moments?  Write down all of the things that you love to do and all of the things that you don't. 
Knowing who you are not is as important as knowing who you are.  What things do you not like to do.  What kind of environments do you not like being in?   What kind of topics do you not like talking about?

Ask yourself this question.  What are your gifts and talents?  Think of the feedback from others that you have received over the years about your gifts and talents.  Ask other people what they think your gifts and talents are.  Write down or draw, paint, sing or act out your answers.  What kind of subjects do you love to talk about?

An Awareness that We Have a Life's Purpose

I had a curiosity about my life's purpose from a very young age.  I asked myself and other people what is the meaning and purpose of life?  More important, I asked myself what is the meaning and pur

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