Great Work

I took Friday off so I am coming back from a nice long weekend and trying to get back into the swing of things this morning.


I noted, when I opened my Reader this morning, that Zen Habits (http://zenhabits.net/) had a new post up about killing busy work. Reading this post had a strong effect on me. If I look at the statistical tables, my life expectancy is another 28.85 years. Now, I have no intention of setting the intent that I will only live that long but, thinking about the end of ones life does add some urgency to what the guest blogger is saying. Almost all of my work life has fallen into the Bad Work or Good Work category. I am an expert at settling and, though I have had some fulfilling experiences doing work in the nonprofit and volunteer realms, those experiences have not comprised more than 5% of my entire work life (and probably much less than that). Mostly, I have worked to survive.


So, along with my commitment to lose weight and submit a novella for publication this year, I am setting a new goal for myself: to spend some time, energy and meditation on exploring what would be a fulfilling career for me. I have the chance to go back to school and do pretty much whatever I want to do summer after next. I will not waste that wondrous opportunity.