Part 2: Taking Action: Finding the HOW
In the article "Finding the right career (1)" last week, I wanted to find out, how we can decide what the right career looked like, by investigating our personal strengths, our passion and our past successes where we created value for other people.
So let’s assume you read part 1 of “Finding the right career” and you looked first inside yourself. You decided what your dream job is, what you really want to do and maybe you even know where you want to work.
But how do we go from here?
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Often in life we know what we want and sometimes we even start in the right direction. … but then, somehow something happens, we get caught up, it runs out, we lose track and then feel frustrated or even like a failure. We are discouraged to live our dreams out, it just did not work, again.
What can we do in a very practical sense, to just not stand in our own way and sabotage our good intentions?
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"A beggar had been sitting by the side of a road for over thirty years. One day a stranger walked by. "Spare some change?" mumbled the beggar, mechanically holding out his old baseball cap. "I have nothing to give you," said the stranger. Then he asked: "What’s that you are sitting on?" "Nothing," replied the beggar. "Just an old box. I have been sitting on it for as long as I can remember." "Ever looked inside?" asked the stranger. "No," said the beggar. "What’s the point? There’s nothing in there." "Have a look inside," insisted the stranger. The beggar managed to pry open the lid. With astonishment, disbelief, and elation, he saw that the box was filled with gold.
I am that stranger who has nothing to give you and who is telling you to look inside. Not inside any box, as in the parable, but somewhere even closer: inside yourself.
"But I am not a beggar," I can hear you say.
Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are beggars, even if they have great material wealth." Read more…
The Power of Now is one of the most influential spiritual books of our time. The following is an excerpt of the complete first chapter called "You are not your Mind".
Chapter 1 "You are not your mind" is definitely the entry point for raising your awareness to see, that identification of your self with the thoughts and emotions you have is a core error. If you become able to be the watcher of thoughts, instead of identifying with thoughts, you move to be able to free yourself from one of the greatest sources of suffering and open the door to a higher consciousness (or awareness, Eckhart uses both synonymously).
What then happens is that the mind becomes the servant, the great tool to be used consciously, instead of running on autopilot using you. Your true essence then reveals itself as the underlying awareness itself.
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Your Purpose: Deciding the WHAT to do?
Finding the right thing for you to do, where you spend a lot of time in your professional life, is a task really worth taking seriously. Usually it gets most important in our later teen-time or early twenties, but really it is a question that should be asked over the whole lifetime, since it can change dramatically when we develop ourselves.
The right career means finding a profession, where you want to, or even love to work. It’s something that fulfils you and something where you really can bring your whole person into the set; something where you really can be successful, including earning a lot of money on the long run and provide service for other people and society.
So how can we go about it? I give you my advice, which worked for me so far.
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"I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don’t know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten." – Eckhart Tolle
For most of the readers here, the topic of spirituality may be a very fuzzy and unknown place. “What’s the use of it? What can I do with this? Why should I even bother?” I hear you asking. And the strange thing is, although this is not the best question to ask, I will try to answer it. I will try to give an entry point for everybody who is not (yet) familiar with the experience of spirituality, which is usually a total different perspective than what we have in our mind as the mental concept of spirituality.
First I like to clarify that when I want to talk about the topic of spirituality, I don’t talk about religion and I don’t talk about belief (in a God or not). Frankly speaking, that was never a real interest for me. I am talking all about experiencing spirituality and nothing else really matters. Then I think it becomes a topic for everyone.
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Powderruns"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." - Wayne Dyer
How to get out of our own way
Most of the time we are our greatest enemy. From childhood on we are literally scripted like a program by things that were said to us by our parents, other close relatives, teachers or friends. Experiences that happen to us also are stored in our memory and our brain is making conclusions about what we can do and more importantly, what we can’t or shouldn’t.
This way of experiencing reality results in a set of rules that become our belief-structure and therefore our mirror of "reality" and as an important part of it our own identity. But this reality isn’t a fixed thing, it is an image, a perspective we have in our minds. If it comes to our own self these beliefs can be supporting for us, or limiting.
It is very important to realize, that these beliefs are not reality. Reality is a relative construct. Beliefs are thoughts in our head that have formed an image of the world, that we work with. But it is not reality.
You may not even be aware of such self-limiting beliefs, but certainly they are there inside. Even if you made a lot of personal progress in working on yourself, there are a lot of areas were limiting beliefs are holding you back.
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