As i crossed the magic age of 50, this has been a key question with me. Many of us get trapped in our pay packets and ambitions. We also rationalize that it is possible to love what you do.
I agree but only up to a point. I have been through situations in life where i could love what i was doing but i figured that it just did not match up to the spark of moments when i was doing what i loved.
Each one of us has a responsibility to discover our unique potentiality and area of contribution ideally suited to accelerating the evolution of our planet. I understand today that anything i do must have people, alignment and change at the heart of it. Softer areas of organization and people development are more energizing than the hard world of numbers and processes. Those are also important but there is more to life even in an organization that we must uncover.
This realization will guide my future choices for sure.
But I urge each one of you to take time out to unravel what your thrill and skill areas are. Go and ask your friends, parents and your colleagues and bosses. They will tell you. You will also know through reflection what these are.
And then look at making conscious choices to align your 'drill', your 'work area', to these.
It will be tough to give up all that has defined you so far but, in the long run, you would have done yourself and this universe a favour
2 comments:
Hi..I love the simplicity with which you have explained tresonance. When you explained it to me a couple of years ago, I understood it 'in theory' and was vaguely aware of it's importance. At the life stage I am in now, every minute i spend away from my baby, for work, my drill- has to be worthwhile. That's where I realise that my thrill,skill and drill need to be aligned or an important part of me remains unfulfilled..
So I get the need for tresonance in my own life context. Now I start the journey of crystallising my thrill and skill....and finding the drill!
Hi Vineet,
Perhaps you may not remember me. We met when you were in QAI and I in Bharti, MP (BDK time). We were doing six sigma stuff or some other transformational activity with you.
This blog of yours I just chanced to stumble on today after I was scanning some of the linkedin questions.
I must say, as we all reach an age say a particular 40+ mark, we try to re discover ourselves.
I saw your prema centre of learning and am reading your newsletter. Will interact more later.
SANJAY MEHROTRA
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