Follow Your Bliss through Open Doors
Joseph Campbell said, “Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.“
Then Steve Jobs said something about loving what you do, “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking. Don’t settle.”
Joseph was right when he said that the universe will open doors where there were only walls. Might I also add that we need to have strong faith, courage and trust that it will all turn out great too? More often than not, we need to walk through the wall or to knock it down to build door. The universe favours one who work hard and delay gratification is assured. Be patience. You ask why? As the saying goes, “Easy comes, easy goes.” And so it will be with the gift bestows to you from the universe. It is important to prepare one mentally to receive that greatest gift of becoming the person we were born to be.
The preparation could have come in the form of lessons in life and work. Steve Jobs mentioned that work is going to fill a large part of our life. So doesn’t it make sense to do work that we love, work that bring out our best potential, work that we are naturally good at? It certainly makes a lot of sense. As the saying goes, “When we love the work we do, then we don’t have to work anymore for another day because we will be playing everyday.
That happiness found in work will surely overflow to the other parts in life; affecting first and foremost the relationships with our family and friends. Don’t we all know of someone who is everyday complaining about work? It is rather sad actually to see someone we care about going through the unhappiness. Yet I think Randy Pausch put it best when he said, “Too many people go through life complaining about their problems. I’ve always believed that if you took one tenth the energy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you’d be surprised by how well things can work out.” Are we also falling into such a cycle of complaining? A gentle reminder to myself, “Acknowledge the challenges and then to focus on the solutions.”
Acknowledging the challenges is important as we cannot change what we are not aware of? Being happy is not only good for the people we loved and cared about, most importantly it is exceptionally good for ourselves! Are you joining me in this happiness journey?
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I have a quick question about your blog, do you think you could e-mail me?
Heather
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