A fascinating question I think and one that can be pulled back out of the bag again and again.
I’ve always been triggered by internal drives, and for most of my life, the creative forces have dominated my persona.
As a fifteen-year-old, it led me into an apprenticeship to learn how to do pottery. I only vaguely knew that I wanted to form and shape something with my hands after I had a first hands-on with clay in a Waldorf-school. What followed was life around ceramics. As it actively touches the life-giving elements: earth, water, fire and air, the adventure to explore these never fell short of excitement.
The experimenting with natural raw-materials held endless surprises and the challenge to deal with something as fragile as dried and later fired clay schooled the sensitivity in my fingertips, in my mind and my sensual heart to a state of the arts.
fevering joy…
Jumping out of bed in the morning to do it again for most of my life was an act of fevering joy towards another exciting day.
But, I suppose, like it can happen in any business when the focus slips to far out on the money-making side, the joy can be lost quick smart. And when you lose the fun, you lose interest. And when you lose interest in what you’re doing but keep on doing it because it makes you an income, your lifestyle is soon down the drain to say it clearly. I’ve been there and had that experience like many of us did in one form or another.
It doesn’t matter if your in an office writing computer software, working as a nurse or running your own coffee-shop, once we are forced to do something repeatedly to make ends meet the fun is out of it. And with the loss of happiness, we lose what we consider to be a lifestyle.
The word “lifestyle in itself has a positive relevance to most of us.
What we like is to do what we feel like doing when we feel like it, right!?
And believe it or not, that is our nature.
So, what does it take to live according to our nature?
What would a lifestyle look like to fulfill our life to unfold our potential and make us happy from the bottom of our hearts?
I’d say, we’d live a very creative life. We’d do a lot of things regularly for the first time. Like kids, we would explore the world as if it was for the first time. And it is! Because, in reality, there is no moment like the other.
Life is new and fresh when it happens, and it happens only NOW.
And while it obviously is a matter of ability to effort the time-freedom to do what we like, this freedom can be bought by financial independence.
Don’t you think?
life happens only now
How to become financially independent is another story.
If you want help, let me know.
But be warned, it’s a learning curve and you will have to be willing and determined to do it.
The proceeds are fantastic though.
Not only in regards to the independence but also in regards to learning about yourself.
you’re worthy of change
As I said earlier, you fundamentally change your perception of the world. And that in itself is the most worthy act of change.
Life becomes fascinating, fresh and full of surprises again.
We begin to live again by re-creating ourselves!
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