THE DAILY SPARK

UPWARD MOBILITY… SUCCESS?

… Aren’t we taught that mobility is freedom, whether it is moving from state to state, or from marriage to marriage, or adventure to adventure?  Aren’t we convinced that upward mobility, moving from job to job is the definition of success?

There is nothing wrong with improving our conditions.  The catch is when we are asked to give up our voice in order to move freely, when we are asked to silence what makes us unique in order to be successful.  When not making waves means giving up our chance to dive into the deep, then we are bartering our access to our authentic self for a better driveway.

Quote by Mark Nepo THE BOOK OF AWAKENING  Having The Life You Want By Being Present to The Life You Have

REFLECTION:

  • Do you own your voice?
  • Do you give up or give in in order to fit in/move up?
  • What has that cost you?
  • Are you willing to continue to sacrifice you for “a better driveway?”

BEING CONTENT

If you can be content right now, then you’ll always be content, because it’s always right now.

Quote by Willie Nelson

REFLECTION:

  • How content are you right now?
  • How can you embrace the now?
  • BE.HERE.NOW!

TIME and FOCUS and ENERGY

Sooner or later, they’re all finite.  And the way we allocate our time and emotional energy determines what gets done.  If we audited your day in six-minute increments, what would we find?  By the clock, how did you actually spend the time you have given to you (we each get the same 24 hours).  How much was spent on work? And the work time, how is it correlated with what creates the value you seek?

A questions that’s harder to measure but with far more impact, of the time you allocated, what was your focus and emotional drive spend on?  What were the crises and highlights of the last day or week?

There’s generally a gulf between what we say we did all day and what we actually did.  And there’s an even bigger chasm between the urgencies and emotional moments and the ones we know actually pay off.

When we give away our day, we give away our future.

FROM: Seth Godin’s Daily Blog post.

REFLECTION:

  • How do you allocate your time?
  • What has been your focus/emotional drive for the last day?… last week?
  • Are you happy with how you spent your time/focus?
  • Any changes you want to make?

REMEMBER:  When we give away our day, we give away our future.