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What Are You Working With?
Go to work.
Get to work.
I have a lot of work to do.
I am working on …
What kind of work do you do?
The word “work” is ubiquitous in our society. Especially the American psyche that values work ethic, productivity and results.
I’d like to present a different kind of work — let’s call it Your Life’s Work. This work requires curiosity, contemplation, humility, courage, consistency, failure. It requires you to release attachments and expectations. It requires you to challenge what you think is true.
In this work of living, we are all working with our own version of the same three things:
What is.
The Unknown.
Core Self.
No matter your circumstances, these three things are the building blocks for whatever life you are creating. They are the essence of your reality.
Let’s break them down …
What is.
There is an is-ness to life that is beneath (or above?) all of the ideas, shoulds/should nots, more, better, when, if. Is-ness is material reality and it involves a number of parts:
- Resources — what are the tangible and intangible assets you have at hand…
