Do you have a passion in your life?

Something that every spare moment you spend doing, reading about, studying? Maybe your passion is skiing. Or rescuing greyhounds. Learning about Ancient Egypt.

Your passion might be going to the desert, spending time with your family, being a multi-millionaire or making quilts or wooden clocks. It might be a career, a cause, a hobby.

It doesn’t really matter what your passion is as long as you’re honoring it and doing it. If you are, then you’re one of the lucky people on this earth.

Many people don’t even know what they want, don’t know what their passion is.

Are you frustrated a lot? Feeling overwhelmed and at odds with the world? Do you feel life is a struggle, always uphill yet you’re going downhill fast?

Chances are, it’s because you’re not in alignment with your (more…)

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A great writer, perhaps Thoreau, once said that many people were ‘living lives of quiet desperation’. If only it were that simple! His familiar saying implies that some people, perhaps a lot of them, are unhappy with the way their lives are now and want to change things for the better. I think it’s worse than that. While they may look in the mirror and don’t like what they see; while they may get up in the morning and don’t like the work they have to go to; while they see rich and successful people on their TV, in their newspapers, and in magazines; they don’t just feel unhappy and unfulfilled. They also console themselves with daydreams about how they could be there too, out there, where they want to be.

What’s wrong with that? Only one thing. It means you’re leading a ‘double life’. Just as ‘mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent’ was the alter ego of Superman, so there are plenty of other ’secret identities’, in every office, every factory, every workplace. While they may seem harmless enough, and are going about their daily lives in a humdrum way, you might just catch them once in a while, staring out of the window and dreaming of how things could be, given – well, whatever you think is going to save you, a win on the Lottery perhaps, or just ‘being ‘discovered’ by that talent scout, the photographer, that agent, whatever. Eric Berne, the man who invented ‘Games People Play’ back in the ’60s, called it ‘Waiting for Santa Claus’, and you can see what he means. There you are, where you don’t want to be, hoping against hope that one day you’ll be ‘rescued’ and off you go, to a new and (more…)

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