Question of the Day: What’s your dream job?
So many times we think of our dream job as something we love doing that we could get paid well for doing.
Having had the interesting jobs of being twenty, thirty, forty, fifty and now sixty, I have a different perspective. I can see that dreams, if they do come true, don’t always end up what you thought they would be. And that jobs don’t always mean getting paid.
The Secret of the Dream Job
The secret of the true dream job goes beyond pleasure and pay. And when that secret is whispered in your ear, it will alter your life.
What is the thing you can give to the world?
What will give you strength, the more of it you give?
Victor Frankl whispers to us: Meaning. Search for Meaning. That is the one true Dream Job for you and me. And Man’s Meaning is always delivering our own unique gift to the world. What is your gift? It is not necessarily your talent, although it could be. What will you give with hard work? How will you reach up to hold up the world, like a skinny, afraid Atlas?
Staring at Georgia O’Keeffe’s New York paintings at an exhibit I wandered through yesterday, I sensed that she meant to paint strength. The strength of effort, of originality, of fear. Almost a hundred years later, she bestowed a gift on me.
In O’Keeffe’s own words, “My painting is what I have to give back to the world for what the world gives to me.”
What will you give back?
Over the decades, I have cut a path of my Calling; pulling weeds of fears and hacking through stalks disbelief in myself. All to believe in my own ability to give back to the world. Decades to get over my fears of inadequacy. Decades to embrace what I came to believe is my own personal meaning.
What is my own personal secret Calling?
How did I find it?
And the beautiful thing is that I don’t get paid. Not in money, that is.
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