The Answer to All Our Problems: Individuals pursuing their life’s work

I am convinced that pursuing your life’s work will make the world a better place. First off, think of why there is so much pain and suffering in the world. It’s because of people wreaking havoc on the world (from global, to local, down to the family system) instead of creating their truth in the world. I feel we haven’t had direction in terms of our spirit until just recently. Or rather, until just recently, our spirit really needed direction. Our world has insanely evolved and we don’t know what to do with it. We’re like babies living in an advanced world. This is where the revolution begins…people begin to create the good in the world they were meant to create.

From Surviving to Thriving

We’ve gone through the stages of barely surviving in caves, to slaving away in farms, to slaving away in offices, now it’s time for the next level…thriving. Life in general down to the individual is made to evolve to higher and higher levels. That higher level is moving the masses to see how important they are and build them up where they stop messing around and listen to their inner calling.

Specific Outline to Find and Pursue Your Inner Calling

• Address baggage that continually brings you problems. Get help from a professional, from loved ones, from church, from a book, or journal, pray, meditate. This is the time to stop ignoring the problems you know you have (we all have problems). Address this fully, do it right the first time; however, don’t get stuck addressing problems once you’re no longer going anywhere and it’s time for the next step.
• Focus on creating what you want in your life. The past is over with and you’re learning how to live it. Now it’s time to focus on the present and future. How would you like your life to be now? Do what it takes to see that way of living be reality in your life.
• Spend time in silence to discover your life’s work. What are your interests, what are you drawn to, where does your mind go drifting? Listen to the sense you feel regarding about what you’re meant to do.
• Map out how to bring your life’s work into the world. For short-term work, it’ll be easier to write out your plan. For long-term work, break it up into manageable parts and then take things one day at a time.
• Most important, resist the temptation to give up and resist the voice that tells you you can’t. You are important. And as one of my favorite author and artist Steven Pressfield writes, “Don’t cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you’ve got.”

Help a stranger

Today I helped a stranger. I never tell anyone when I do this. I do this almost every time I see someone in need. I decide not to tell anyone because I do it out of my personal desire to help anyone in need and not got any credit for it. Today is different because I started this blog and there’s something I really want to say about this. My blog’s domain name is live and love again revolution. This is the name because there’s been a stirring in my heart about helping people revive their lives and spread love in their immediate surroundings and then extending it to the whole world. I feel people need to revive their lives because I feel people have lost their sense of selves and are drowning in following what everyone else buys and does. Some examples are having an iphone, wearing the same clothes, having a 9-5 job they don’t care about, looking forward to getting wasted in the weekend, and then repeating the same cycle. I don’t feel this is living. Moreover, I feel we’ve lost our sensitivity to the other person, especially strangers in need. I’m so sure there are people who do random acts of kindness everyday, but I feel the majority prefer not to get involved out of habit or out of fear of standing out.

Today I was running some errands and there was this senior man sitting in his walker with a plastic bag next to him. I had just finished dropping off my UPS package, saw him, got in the car, then felt my spirit nudging me. It was nudging me to help the guy. What went through my mind was: what if he doesn’t need help, what will this lady in the van with her children think, what if he gets offended? But then I knew my spirit wouldn’t allow me to not do something. I felt there was something he needed. Whether it was a meal or some money. I got out of my car and asked him how he was doing and if he needed any help. He told me that he missed his bus and that he had no way to go home. He told me about the special bus he takes that takes him right to his door. I noticed a minivan with the bus company he was talking about parked at Wendy’s across the street. I told him I could ask the driver of the van if he could take him home or give us information on how he can get the bus to come and pick him up. He appreciated it. I went over to the driver who looked at me very suspiciously and slowly lowered the window only a third of the way down. But I smiled very sweetly and asked very kindly if he could help the person I was trying to help. He didn’t seem too happy about it because he looked like he was on his break, but he said he’ll go over and call for a bus to pick him up. The driver drove to the man and they started to arrange plans for his pick-up. Otherwise, the man would’ve had to wait who knows how long to receive the door-to-door bus service he receives.

I share this story because it was just a simple act of kindness that helped him out. I just feel moments like this bring love into the world and bring connection among people that is so needed. So back to the title of my domain “live and love again revolution.” I am passionate about helping people live again–to break free from the spirit of dissatisfaction that is so prevalent in our culture. To live a life that they can be proud of whether it be through their jobs, family life, with their friends, and in their hobbies. To not settle for what everyone else is doing, so that they can feel alive again. And to love again–to care about people again and step out of their comfort zones to create a culture of helping one another and not caring what other’s think.