There are countless stories of people who have decided to “get out of the rat race” or to “do their own thing” after voluntarily or involuntarily leaving a place of employment. The excitement is palpable at first, the whole potential of not having to work for some else’s dreams or goals or vision… and you can finally strike out and do what you most love to do. But there’s the thing that many of these individuals failed to realize… no one cares about your business more than you.
A friend of mine was talking about being in Church one Sunday and listening to her minister go on about how everyone needs to find the time to be quiet for at least an hour a day. She rolled her eyes and said, “Well, it’s simple to see that he obviously has no kids. I’m lucky if I can find 10 minutes in a day, much less an hour between everything that needs to be done for them in addition to my job.” I heard a sense of resignation that she wouldn’t be able to be in balance as long as she couldn’t find the time to sit and get quiet.
“It’s the question that drives us.” –Trinity
In my post “the ‘Real” Matrix, Part 1”, I pointed out how language is the Matrix we all live in and that we are very easily fooled into thinking that words we use to represent something will somehow be the same as direct experience.
When we do anything in the world whether in our business or personal lives, there can be a tendency to think of it as purely an action… but this is wholly inaccurate.
Being is absolutely inexorable from doing. A great way of illustrating this is a question my mentor Dr. Joseph Riggio asked me last October- “which side of a quarter is more the quarter- George Washington or the Eagle?” My brain kind of melted for a moment and I answered, “Neither, of course- you can’t have a quarter without all of it.”
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“Let me tell you why you’re here. You’re here because you know something. What you know you can’t explain. But you feel it. You’ve felt it your entire life. That there’s something wrong with the world. You don’t know what it is, but it’s there. Like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad.” –Morpheus
I have a long time friend named Linda who is very animated and expressive. A mutual friend proclaimed one day that “Linda is a verb”. Amusing as that statement was (and still is, frankly), I have over the years, realized how true it is… not just about her but about everyone and everything.
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