Work Less, Make More

From the book Work Less, Make More, by Jennifer White:

'Many people hold a secret belief that work has to be work and not any fun. They secretly believe that anything they truly want to do must go behind all their so-called priorities. They are too responsible to chase their ideas or passions. So those dreams that are burning in their souls are kept buried because they believe dreaming just isn't practical....

...You stay busy because you don't want to look at your relationships that aren't working. You stay busy because you don't want to address problems with your kids. Busy because you don't want to admit your career isn't satisfying. Busy because you don't want to face the fact that you've lost touch with the important people in your life. Most of all, you stay busy because you don't want to admit you have lost touch with yourself. And you're afraid that if you slowed down, the world would go on without you and what you did would not have mattered...Ultimately that busyness keeps you from truly living your life.

As long as you convince yourself that your work is so vital that it forces you to stay busy, you'll never reach ultimate fulfillment. You'll stop yourself from experiencing what life is all about.

The time has come for a new plan...putting the passion and inspiration back into your life...You won't find lasting satisfaction until you design a life that supports who you are, not what you have or do. Lasting fulfillment comes not from achieving or acquiring, but from becoming who you really are....

To have success, the key is to take what you're learning - or what you've learned before - and apply it to your life. Action is always the answer. Even if it's the wrong action, you're breaking your old patterns. And shattering your old patterns is a big part of learning how to work less and make more....

...you alone are the one responsible for your life. It's up to you to create the life of your dreams....

If you're not experiencing the results you want...you still have something left to learn. Or maybe you have something left to unlearn like an old behavior or way of thinking. Either way, take action, learn the lesson, and you'll find that your life suddenly leaps forward. It's funny, but life has a way of keeping us right where we are until we learn what we most need to learn. Then, voila, everything changes.'

More from this great book next week....