You see most people don’t see why this is so important, to live a life of passion.
\nThe thing is : I’m sorry to say this but in a 24 hour day with around 12 hours spent on the grinds of day to day existence spending 8 hours on your job means in most ways your job is your life.\u00a0 This is why you can’t just phone in your job.
\nSee A Life of Beauty, A Life of Happiness,\u00a0 and A Life of Passion; I believe for most people, cannot be separated.\u00a0 You seldom see people with a life of no or limited passion living a beautiful life. These things are aspects and results of each other.
\nPS: I understand that we cannot be too passionate about something because like a fire we would just run out of fuel. Life is in someways more of a marathon than a 100 meter dash. What I’m really against is how we seem to believe we can turn our passions on and off. I believe sometimes we need a break but we must understand that it is a break.\u00a0 I had about more than a month of Sick Leaves plus Vacation Leaves last year. half of those were for vacations and the other half was because I couldn’t just go to work and phone it in. I go to work because I was inspired to work. If I wasn’t inspired and I wasn’t being required by my boss then I just didn’t go.<\/p>\n
\nPhoning it in<\/h3>\n
\nThis was sort of shocking, at least to me:
\nI was talking to a religious leader, someone who runs a congregation. She made it clear to me that on many days, it’s just a job. A job like any other, you show up, you go through the motions, you get paid.
\nI guess we find this disturbing because spiritual work should be real, not faked.
\nBut isn’t your<\/em> work spiritual?
\nI know doctors, lawyers, waiters and insurance brokers who are honestly and truly passionate about what they do. They view it as an art form, a calling, and an important (no, an essential) thing worth doing.
\nIn fact, I don’t think there’s a relationship between what you do and how important you think the work is. I think there’s a relationship between who you are<\/em> and how important you think the work is.
\nLife’s too short to phone it in.\n<\/div>\n