The DaVinci Effect: Finding Your Passionate Body Of Work

I heard a 93-year-old woman once say that one of the reasons she was so happy was because she "had her work", her friends, etc. What is YOUR work? What is it that you love to do? What is your "disciple-in"? If you haven't found it yet, let's explore what that might be. This is something that gives our personal life so much meaning - beyond how we make money, relationships, etc. Let's explore what we're passionate about personally - our personal body of work!

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So today we're talking about finding our life's work, Our soul's work, Our body of Work, And I called this talk the da Vinci effect because Leonardo da Vinci is Someone who has always really inspired me. I think what inspired me personally About da Vinci was that he had so many interests. It wasn't that he just did one Thing. He had many, Many, Many, Many interests and oftentimes I think about Leonardo da Vinci, And I don't even know that much about him, But I think about What it would feel like to sit in a laboratory, To sit in an office, To sit in A library and just be curious, To create, To research, To wonder, To sketch, To Imagine things that no one's ever imagined before, And that's what this Talk is about. And this talk was actually inspired by a video that Tim sent me, And It was a video of a guy in some downtown city, And he was interviewing people, You Know, He's walking around with a microphone, And there's this older lady Standing there, And she was quite stately and kind of wandering around, And he Said, Ma'am, Can I ask you how old are you? And she says, I'm 93. And he says, Are you Happy? And she said, I am very happy. He said, Why? Why are you happy? And she said, I love my life. I have my friends. I have my work. I'm able to come down here and See all these wonderful people. I love my life. And it was the line, I love my Work, That inspired this talk. Because she is 93 years old. She's obviously not, This Work that she's talking about, Isn't her nine-to-five. It isn't however she's, You Know, Paying rent and what-have-you. When she says work, It's almost like we would Want to capitalize the W. Big W work. And the other little thing I want to say Here before we continue, Is to say that when I say finding your life's work, I Don't mean that you have to find some magnum opus, You know, And if English Isn't your first language, I mean, Actually that's probably not even English, It's Probably Latin. But it's not like you have to find this great work, You know, Your Mona Lisa, Your Michelangelo's David. That's not what I'm talking about. You Know, Something like that may emerge, But who cares? That's not the point. The point Is to find joy in life. Every single one of us, Not even happiness. I'm not talking About happiness. I'm talking about joy. Soul's joy. So why do I want to talk About this, Besides the great video? What I find is so many of us live, We can live our entire life without ever Engaging with our own soul. Without actually bringing who we are out into The world. And again, I don't mean being famous. I don't mean writing some great Book by JK Rowling. I don't mean that. I mean just simply actually existing as a Soul. So what happens is, Like, Let's say for example, Let's imagine that there's Something that you really love to do. Let's say that you are intrigued by Pottery. You just love it. It literally engages so much of you. You love to study The history of pottery and see how people did it in the past. You love to See the different ways people fired the pottery and painted the pottery and Finished the pottery. And how some people use the pottery wheel and some people do It with their hands. And all these different things. And then you actually Do it. You actually have a place in your home where you dive into the pottery. And Maybe you even have a group that you learn about pottery with. And maybe you Go on pottery retreats. And you're kind of always in this inner intrigue. And When you're creating the pottery, It looks like you. You know what I mean? It Doesn't look like your face. It looks like your soul. It's specifically about You. You're not doing pottery the way Bob does it. And you're not doing it the way They do it. And you're not doing it the quote right way. You're doing it the Katrina way. You're doing it the Mary Beth way. You're doing it the John way. That's how you're doing it. And every day you're doing this and it's just it just Fires you up. Like your soul. It's almost like the reason that you're alive. The Reason that you even came to earth. Every day gets tickled. Every day you get to go Ooh that's a neat idea. I wonder if you could do that. That's fascinating. So Let's say you had something like that. Anything. And we'll talk more about what Those could be. Or actually let's talk about if you don't have something like That for a moment. So then what do we engage with? We engage with our romantic Partner. And that person becomes all of our spare time. It becomes all of our Focus. It's the one place that maybe our soul is engaged. Maybe it's work. Maybe It's what you do for a living. And there can be overlap here obviously between Your soul's work and what you do for a living. But let's just separate them out For now. So maybe your entire life is about making money. Financial success, Political success, Social success, Whatever. Your whole life is about that. Again you're kind of applying your all your soul's energy. Maybe not your soul But all your soul's energy into that. Or maybe it's raising children. Everything You are is poured into the children. What happens when that changes? What Happens when the relationship ends? Where are you left? Floating. It's like you're Literally you don't even know what to do with yourself. You're just lost. Why are We lost? We're still here. Our whole human being is here. And I'm not saying We don't go through a grieving process and all that. I mean there's natural Times to grieve a loss. But why is our soul now offline? Why are we literally Lost in space? Because we had no part of our life that actually was our soul's Engagement. Now imagine you have the pottery. So maybe this person you split Up or maybe they pass away or something like that. And you know initially you're Heavily grieving. So you don't want to do pottery. You don't want to do anything Like that. But then you go through the healthy grieving process and then bit by Bit you start to look into your pottery room and you start to have the desire to Create again. And you start to create a little bit a little bit more and a Little bit more. And your soul is back online. What do you do if they're not if You don't have that? Well you might go back to the person even if it was toxic. You might desperately try to find another person to fill that void. And not Even caring really who they are or what they're like. Because you just need to Fill that void because your soul is screaming for something. How often do we Lose a job or do we retire? And we're literally sitting there looking around Going. As opposed to think of the people who retire and they are busier than They've ever been before. More engaged than ever before. Because they're now Doing life work. They're doing soul work. They're doing stuff that they've always Wanted to do. Or how often do the kids move out and suddenly you're just like You know long lost long forgotten who we truly are. So then the next big question We have to ask ourself is an existential question. Why are we even here? Why were We born? Why did we even come to this planet? And again this is not an Answerable question. It is a why question that is it you'll you know will drive Ourselves crazy and just argue about nonsense forever. But it's an important Question. Were we really born to just join a workforce? And then when that was Done play bridge for the rest of our lives? Like is that really why we're Here? And it's a serious question. And again it can't be answered but we can Often answer it in a negative way. And I don't mean bad way. I just mean in a well It's not this and it's not this and it's not this. You know we can answer it That way. So here's a better question. Why would you like to be here? Why would you Like to have come to earth? What's the story that you would like to think? Would You like to believe that we came to earth to explore earth? Imagine imagine You're a galactic citizen and you're like I would love to explore that Planet called earth. My friend was there three centuries ago. Like imagine imagine That's the reason. Like you're literally here to explore life. That would be an Interesting journey wouldn't it? Maybe you believe you're here for personal Spiritual growth. Maybe you believe that this is truly Maya. An incredible world Of illusion designed for your souls. Like designed as the perfect arena for your Soul's expansion and learning. That's cool. And again there's no right answer For this. But it really really matters what your personal answer is for this. You know if you're into journaling to really say to myself what why would I Like to be on earth? Because this whatever that answer is will define how Much passion you have for this idea of finding your life's work. Finding your Body of work. Finding what makes you feel alive and passionate about being here. Maybe deep down you believe you're here for punishment. Maybe you believe that Maybe you've got life karma and who knows what that you're just literally You know what my life sucks and that's what I deserve. Right? Like maybe that's And then maybe everything you do is hard. Everything you choose to do is hard. Every relationship is hard. Every job is hard. Everything is hard. Because deep Down that's what you believe. And there's nothing wrong with that. I'm not saying That it's wrong. I'm just saying it's interesting to ask ourselves the Question. Because for example if that is actually why you think we're here then This talk is nonsense. You don't want to find things that you love to do that Would be joyful and against the point that you're being here. And I don't mean To sound sarcastic or anything like that in there. I just really mean that our core Beliefs will dictate our actions and they won't they don't work out of Alignment. So it's really interesting to dive into that and maybe you look at it And you go wow I think I do believe that. Why do I believe that? And you go a bit Deeper and you go a bit deeper and you realize okay I can release all that. Maybe I can just be here to explore joy or explore love or explore who Knows what. Who knows why we're here. So going forward I'd like to define what I Mean by this. What could this mean? What kind of work are we talking about? Well there's two big pieces that are really important. Whatever it is. One you Are really intrigued by this. Like you have a personal interest. Is there Something in you that is sparked about it? Right? And it can be very very small Or very very big. Like this morning we got this new soap and it's lovely and It's herbal and it's got cool like exfoliating bits in it and stuff. And Every time we have a shower it's like this is the best soap ever. Like you Don't want to stop lathering yourself because the soap is so awesome. It could Be simply saying wonder how they make this kind of soap. I wonder if I can do Soap that's specifically what I would love to do. Like smells and scents and Things that I would love to do. Yeah I would love to do that. It could be as Simple as that. It doesn't have to be quantum physics. It doesn't have to be How to cure world hunger. It has it has to be something that actually in this Moment has some energy of its own. Right? That you're not efforting to like it. You Know what I mean? So the first thing is is you personally have to have an Interest in it. Personally. And I keep repeating it because the world we have Lived in, I don't believe it's the world we're moving into, But the world we have Lived in, Even our ideas were placed inside of us by other people. Here's what You should be interested in. Here's what's worthy of your time. Here is a Useful skill. Here is something that whatever. And it can be ideas from school, Our family, Our society, Our church. It can be from books we've read. It can be From teachers. Here is what is worthy of you to think about. Oh don't bother with That. That's nonsense. Why would people already do that? Why are you thinking About that? So it's very interesting to actually say, What am I interested in? And We don't even have to have an answer right now. But just to start asking the Question. The second part of this is you have to be actively engaged in pursuing Whatever it is. This isn't like, Well I really love to watch football. So I Watch football all the time. That's not what I'm talking about. This Is beautiful leisure activity. Awesome. Perfect. Nothing wrong with watching this, Watching musicians, Watching, Watching, Watching. Awesome. What I'm talking about Is something that we are physically, Emotionally, And mentally engaged in. And That we are learning about. And that we are expanding ourselves. And we are Putting ourselves into the experience. And we're changing ourselves because of It. We are growing. We are honing our skills. We, Our life is changing because We are engaged in this process. Imagine this is like alchemy. And if we simplify Alchemy to imagine that you have a cauldron of life. You have this beautiful Cauldron. And it's solid. I mean it's a big talk. We can do a lot of talks on Alchemy. But we have a solid cauldron. And what we put in the cauldron is us. We put In who we are. We put in what we love. We put in our interests. We put in our Passions. We put in the things that make us really happy that we're here on Planet Earth. It could be music. It could be playing with animals. It could be Sunshine. It could be snow. It could be anything. But in the cauldron, Everything We love and everything we're passionate about. And of course in there, Perhaps There's a catalyst. Because there's something that's new. And something That's new could be something that we've been doing for a long time. But the Coolest thing about the coolest thing about the world is that if you have an Interest and you start to follow it in, It's like a fractal. I don't know if You've ever seen a fractal. Like so for example, One of the reasons I Love mathematics. Lots of you guys know I originally studied mathematics at University. That was my jam. People would often say like, How can you Study mathematics and then teach spirituality or Tantra or any of these Things or yoga? But mathematics is a philosophy to understand the world. It Isn't arithmetic and calculus. These sort of are tools you can use within trying To understand the world and mapping the world and all that kind of thing. But Mathematics is a way of actually looking into the world and saying, I see a Pattern here. Don't you see this pattern? You know what? I think I can map this Pattern. I think I can map it with numbers. And numbers are a very pure Science. So for example, One of the ideas that mathematics has brought to us is The idea of a fractal. And if you've never seen a fractal, What a fractal is, Is a pattern that repeats itself inside itself. Let's imagine a tree. A tree is Like an inverted fractal. You start with a stem. The stem branches into branches. Each individual branch branches into more branches. And then those little Branches branch into more branches. So there's all these repeating patterns in A tree. So by the time you, Let's say you flew above the tree, You would look down And say, Oh isn't that interesting? There's all these branches. There's like 12 branches. Oh wait, If I look down even deeper, These are actually branches of Bigger branches. Oh if I go deeper, Oh look, These are branches of bigger Branches. And eventually you kind of get to the core. So this is a very loose idea Around fractals. This is just like exploring something you're interested in. When you dive into it, You go in and all of a sudden it opens up and there's a Bigger pattern. And all of a sudden, Let's say for example, You were intrigued with Ancient Greece. Maybe ancient Greece was fascinating to you. So you dive into Ancient Greece. So suddenly you look in and you go, Oh look, There's all this Political stuff. That's interesting. Well that's really connected to the biology Of it. And oh that's really connected to the topology of it. And that's Really connected. Oh look at the social structures. Well that's interesting. And Then you decide, I'm gonna go into the social structures and it's gonna expand. And suddenly you're gonna see, Oh well that was really around agriculture and Biology. And oh it's still connected to this. And every single place you go Keeps expanding, Keeps expanding as you dive deeper into the fractal. It's never Ending. And so even if you've had an interest ever since you were young, If You're still intrigued by this, It's just never-ending. You just keep going deeper And wider and then you dive over to this one, You dive over to that one, You dive And you're constantly expanding. So back to our cauldron. Inside the cauldron is Also an interest, A spark. It's something that's like, This is interesting. Boy, Would I ever like to explore that. And so this is an alive thing in the cauldron. It's an alive thing. So now all of a sudden this alive thing is in the Cauldron with everything that you are and then there's a fire. There's heat. And The heat is your passion for living. That's what the heat is. It isn't stress And junk and life. It can be. That's a whole other discussion of alchemy. We're Talking about creation. We're talking about being passionate about life. Well You know what fuels that? Passion for life. Right? That's what it is. It's the Passion of that little seed that's inside of there that's like, I would love To explore that. That's so interesting. And the more we go into it and the more We go in, We go, The deeper we go, The cauldron starts to turn. And it can be Anything. Let's say that, Let's say you've always wanted to find inner peace. Maybe you've had a really difficult life and you're like, You know what, I want to Explore inner peace. That's what I want. So you go to a yoga class and you're Sitting there and the teacher is telling you how to breathe and you're breathing And everyone else is breathing and all of a sudden you kind of look up and you Look around the room and you think to yourself, Wow I've never been around this Many calm people before. And it starts to change you in the slightest most gentle Way and you just look around and suddenly this world that we lived in Was that was so stressful and full of anxiety and full of fear suddenly just Changed. And this is still real life. This isn't a movie. And you're like, Well this Is interesting. So you go home and you start looking into yoga. Maybe you look At the history of yoga. Maybe you look into the different teachers of yoga over Time and the different styles of meditation. And all of a sudden you find That there's an art of living group that studies Paramahansa Yogananda and you Decide to join that group and start to study the philosophy of it. And it just Grows and grows and grows and grows. But you first have to have the passion, The Desire. And sometimes we're missing that. Sometimes we need to allow ourselves to Have it. One of the first things that I do have to we do have to address here is The challenge of our education system. Because in many ways our education System formed a lot of our ideas about learning and what life's all about. And It formed us in a time that we were the most formative. And so all of a sudden we Have to so what we have to do is we have to look at what was the goal of school. This talk isn't about education. But predominantly, I mean on a good Side, Oh we want to learn how to read, Write, Do arithmetic, You know the basic Stuff. Maybe it's a bit of socialization. It's a place for the kids to go while Parents are at work. You know there's a lot of really functional and really Reasonable reasons to be there. But if the curriculum at large is actually Designed to fit us into the workforce. I'm just speaking of Canada and The US. Mostly I can't speak for any other country. Lots of other countries Are very progressive and have very different ideas. But here it's really About where do you fit in the workforce. Are you a factory worker? Are you going To become a lawyer or a doctor? Are you going to be a teacher? Are you going to Be a what? Very very focused in the workforce. So then all of a sudden Everything we learn has to have a reason. It has to give us a marketable skill It has to advance us in some way. Very seldom did it ever have anything to do With being human. You know if we go back to our first question, Like why do you Think or why would you like to be here on planet earth? Did school prepare us For that journey? Or did it only prepare us to be slotted into a workforce? And The reason I want to bring that up is because we may have a lot of our ideas From that space. And for many people school squashed our desire to learn and The faith in ourselves to explore from a soul's place. We learned that I have to Learn the geography in a way that's going to make you happy because you're The expert. You give me the right books to read. I will explore it and then you Will test me on my knowledge. Everything is externally based. But this life's work You have to take that and invert it. You have to completely flip it. In your life Work there is no expert. No one in the world knows better what your joyful path Is. Nobody. And it doesn't matter how you did in school. It doesn't matter whether You think you're smart or not or whatever. It doesn't matter. Your life Work can only be decided by you. Now within that you might decide that that Person over there is an excellent craftsman. I would love to apprentice Under them. Genius. Of course. This is part of it. This is how we pass along Brilliant teachings from one generation to the next. It isn't that we have to be Self-taught everything. But we are engaged in saying I would love to learn Pottery from that person. I would love to learn Spanish from that person. And we Can even learn from Gaia or from Insight Timer or from whatever. We can learn from Other people. But they are not the point. You're the point. You're the one Learning. You're the one actually creating the things. It's like they say That when you read a book 50% of the experience is the reader. Which is why It's always dangerous to tell people that oh this was my favorite book. This Book changed my life. Because that other person is them. 50% of that experience is Going to be them. So I mean I can read a book and they might say one little thing And my mind will go off into a million directions. And it'll just like shake me Down. It'll have all these realizations. And then I'll come back to the book and Maybe I'll keep reading. Or it'll just become one of those books that I read The three pages I needed and it just sits by my bedside forever. But then I'll Tell you oh I read this book. It was so mind-changing. It was so mind-blowing. It Changed my life. Which doesn't necessarily mean it's going to change Your life. It just happened to answer the question I was looking for. And it's the Same when you're learning from other people. Whether you're learning from a Documentary. Whether you're learning from a craftsman. Whether you're learning from Any teacher. You are the point. It is not about impressing them. It is not about Them thinking you're the best apprentice they ever had. Again we come Back to this galactic soul coming to earth saying, Wow electricity hey. Well That would be fun to learn. And you go and apprentice under an electrician. And You learn how to wire things. And this is fascinating. But you learn it. For you. And then you go out and you do cool things with it. And this is a very Interesting thing. Because you know we talk about having discipline in life. And Discipline comes from the word disciple. And disciple is when you actually look At something. And you want to become a disciple of that topic. So this is where You decide you know what I I really want to explore music. And I am so drawn to Piano. I love everything about piano. I love the sound of the piano. I love the Feeling of my fingers on the piano. I love everything about piano. Piano is Going to be my discipline. And so every day you expand yourself and you practice The piano. And you learn about piano. And you do all these different things. And it Becomes my discipline. And people will say oh well I you know she has an Excellent discipline. But we've twisted it into this thing that we've now forced. Every day I force myself to sit down. There's no joy in it. Imagine instead You're like well I wouldn't miss it. Why would I not play the piano? This is my Discipline. This is what I love. This is my point of expansion. And again the Beautiful thing is to play piano your way. Sometimes people say that you go Away and you you can learn all these wonderful things. But you really start to Play when you forget everything you learned and you do it your way. For me I've never figured that out in piano. I love piano and I've taken lessons in Piano. I haven't figured out Katrina's way of playing piano. That's an Interesting exploration. Imagine you just love color and paint. So you take all These lovely courses and figure out learn all kinds of tricks of the trade. But then you go home and you sit there and you're like but how does my soul Paint? To actually be unique. We were driving the other day and we drove by This house that had all of these big colored balls all around the house. And I Looked at it and I thought at first glance I thought oh they must have had a Child's birthday party or something. But then I looked at it better and I Realized oh it's decoration. It was their choice. And it was fascinating to me how Quickly judgment rose in me. Like well that's that's weird. That's weird and I Thought weird. Why is it weird? You can walk down my street and it's a quiet Little street with little houses and their gardens and their lawns and their Driveways. And for all intents and purposes they all follow a similar Pattern. They're not identical but there's something homogenous about them. There's something that I'll air quote normal about them all. And if someone Decided to do something different it would be like well that's different. Isn't it? It doesn't go along with how we do yards in Canada. I spent like the Next hour thinking about how crazy that is. That we have actually created some Kind of normal or expected lawn care or garden ideas or the way the front of the House looks. That there's a standardized way and if anyone does anything Different well that's weird. I do quite a giggle about that right? But that's What we have to get rid of when we do our life's work. Whatever it is we have To get rid of that. There's no such thing. There's no such thing as the right way To paint or the right way to sculpt or the right way to draw or the right way To write. There's no right way. It's just your way. It's your expression of your Soul. How can that possibly be wrong? And there is something about getting to Express your soul that makes you alive. It makes you excited about being alive. And it has nothing to do with whether anyone else liked it, Whether you make Money at it. It has nothing to do with any of those things. And so the beautiful Thing is you may find a topic that you love to do your whole life and that may Truly be your life's work. That you just expand into the fractals of that one Thing for your whole life and it's almost like a theme for your life. Or Maybe there's something you really love to do and then you discover and I like Downhill skiing. You know and I also love calligraphy and creating or Creating Chinese characters. You know and you love diving into the philosophy Behind the Chinese language. You don't have to have one thing. Maybe you are Someone who has like ten things all the time. So the question is what engages all Of you? What single thing engages all of you? Or what collection of things engage All of you? Because when we feel fully engaged in life, What else is there? And Then you know when we have a romantic partner, They join in the gang. Like they Join in. They may not join into your life work. They have their own life work. But you get to have a beautiful romantic experience with someone. Maybe You have children. Maybe you have friends. Maybe you have work that pays your Bills. Maybe your work overlaps with your passions. Who knows? We get to define this. So what I would love to do right now with you guys is I would love to Brainstorm all of the possible life work that you personally either do right Now or would love to do. Not just anything. I want to know what you Personally love to do. What lights you up or what you would love to do. And I'd Like to share that with everybody. Because I would love to know. Because Sometimes we just don't know. So I would love to know painting, Writing, Bringing Glow arts to neurodiverse populations, Painting and writing, Sing and play music, Cook and bake, Scary but to create a podcast, Brilliant, Play music, Singing, Nature photography, Meditating, Mediumship. I love being a school counselor and Psychologist. I hate the paperwork. Philosophy, Cooking, Making art, Reading, Writing, Nature, Gardening, Running, Coaching kids. I am a Special Olympics Track coach and my athletes light me up. Traveling to other countries, Japanese Antique scroll paintings, Study and paint it, Cooking from the garden, Spending time in nature, Dancing, Cooking, Writing, Creating, Having art retreats on My property and in Europe, Sacred circles, Write a book on women's history, Plant Based coaching. I love reframing my family's mindset from negative limiting Beliefs. Dancing, Music, Learning, Soul diving, Loving, Cooking, Learning about so Many things, Doing my psychic medium readings, Dancing and singing, Gardening, Playing, Teaching groups of children, Plant medicine. I am building a small Retreat center by the river to provide sacred space, Saving and finding new Homes for abandoned animals. I love dancing salsa, Surfing, Surfskating, Crocheting, Yoga, Meditation, Swimming in the sea, Paddleboarding, Photography, Reading, Pottery, Neurological painting and haiku poetry. Traveling, Dancing, Traveling to natural areas and visiting ruins, Ecstatic dance, Walking outside and Bicycling, Being creative, Reading, Singing, Performing, Cooking, Dancing, Exploring new cities, Doing things outside. I love being an astrologer and Poet, Foraging wild mushrooms, Teaching yoga, Reiki and yoga, Meditation, Breathwork, Dance, Singing, Yoga, Shamanism, Reiki, Performing on stage, Drawing, Photography, Skincare, Gardening, Writing, Screenwriting, Songwriting, Poetry. I do a Monthly event that's similar, A bit of ecstatic dance and yoga and letting it Rip, Making soup, Traveling, Exploring, Creating, Loving life, Expressing my whole Soul, Biking, Nature, Nature photography, Architecture, Traveling, Audio engineering, Creating cool products for clients, Businesses to help market them, Spending Time with animals, Participating in the Katrina bus fractal, Cooking for seminar Groups, Coaching teachers, Creating rituals, Writing, Singing, Ecstatic dancing And sacred movement, Learning to play every musical instrument, Being on or in Water, Supporting humans who are struggling and suffering, Snowboarding, Traveling and dancing, Coffee, Bicycling, Writing a children's book with my sons, Backpacking. I would love to create a free place for music, Reiki, Fires, Drumming, Astrology and numerology, Exploring new places, Katrina's talks and sessions on Insight, Belly laughing with my teenager, Van life, Body strengthening and healing, Traveling solo, I love mentoring, Oh yeah, Soup, Which is a metaphor or a euphemism For a little something something, Getting into my body, Combining my work as a Physical therapist with the meditation and inner child, Inner self, Child healing I've done, Mountaineering, I love being in service to others, Swimming, Fashion Design, Reiki, Energy healing, Drumming, Crystal work, Camping, Mountain biking. Wow, Thank you guys, There's so much, There's so many fun things and it's so Funny how you can feel it inside of you, Right? You can feel the excitement of Diving into all these wonderful ideas. How do you distinguish between a Distraction and this is the next step on the path? So for me, Anything that's Exciting is exciting, Period. It's almost like the joy of this kind of work is It's never about the outcome, It doesn't matter. Like sometimes I think that an Idea pops up and it's like a North Star and you move towards it and I always, In My mind's eye, I always see this like a city street and it's dark and up ahead I See a light and I start walking towards that light. Sometimes I get to the light But sometimes just walking towards the light I find myself at another street Corner that I've never been at and I turn and I look and I see another light And instead of continuing towards the first light I actually turn and I begin A journey towards that light. That it has nothing to do with whether we ever make It to the original light, It's the excitement inside of us that gets us Moving towards something and it enlivens us. That's what I mean like when we Really think about what's the point of being alive that when we feel so pumped Up about something it's just the joy of doing it. It's the joy of the excitement. I don't know it's just so exciting and very often like I find like I've started Writing many books. Some of them get finished. Some of them get finished much Later. It's almost like I start writing the book and in writing the book I Realize I need more information but I actually put the book away then life Happens. A million things happen. I meet this person, I meet that person, I read This book, I watch this movie and then all of a sudden I have more information. But sometimes that book never gets written but it was really exciting In the meantime. Sunday morning I woke up with a new book in my head and I spent All of Sunday morning writing this new book and I don't know if it'll ever go Anywhere but wow was it ever fun to feel the flow of inspiration and get it All out onto paper. Very exciting. It's just exciting. It doesn't even matter Whether the book ever goes to print or whatever maybe it will or maybe it was Just really fun. It was a really fun morning feeling it flow. So thank you so Much for being here. I hope you have a wonderful day.

Reviews

Inspiring. Especially appreciated that there doesn’t have to be just one thing, and that it can change over time.

Good talk. It has been difficult since long ago to really find an activity that really excites me or makes me curious. Perhaps this is part of getting old. Or after seeing so many strange behaviours and attitudes including from daughters and sons, we understand that real satisfaction can only come from inner peace. Thank you 🙏🏽 for these reflections and for sharing your wisdom with us. Namaste 🙏🏽