Write your own life movie script

   What is it that when I am doing it, time really is not an issue?  In other words, when I am doing that thing, I can look at the clock and say "Oh, my goodness, where did that hour go?  I can't believe it's 5 o-clock." Because I was so engaged, I left behind the linear world of tick tock, tick tock, time just creeping by, clock watching---that's just agonizing. 

     I'm sure all of us have had some kind of a job, or some kind of class we had to sit through, where we kept looking at the clock and it looked like it was the slowest thing in the world.  We couldn't wait for it to be over.  I remember working in some factories when I was younger and that clock would just go by so slowly.  We would watch the clock, then we would try not to watch the clock, and that's a good sign that that's not my true calling.  That's a very good sign of that. 

    So look back in your life.  Look at your current work.  When are the moments during the day when time's not an issue, because what that really means is that you're no longer trapped in a linear life; but you're in a much more whole, big-picture life where it's got all kinds of holographic, holistic, universal expansion---infinite, really, infinite expansion, and dimension to it. 

     That's where real creativity comes in, that's where unlimited energy comes in.  That's where your second wind is accessed.  In that moment.  In those callings.  So look for times when you feel that way, when there's no real time passing. That's the work you can do all day without getting tired, and that's the work you can just go on and on with and finish it until you are masterful. And you're not looking at the clock and you don't have one foot on the brake, and one foot on the gas. It's just both feet on the gas.  That's the work you'll do best at.  That's the work you'll make the most money at when you find it.

    Look again through your life.  What do you absolutely love to do?  Because for whatever wonderful reason, what you love to do, what you enjoy doing has got the greatest likelihood of making you the most money.  You'll simply give more of yourself to that, you'll be more fearless inside of it, more time will be naturally devoted to it, and therefore you'll make more money at it.  You'll rise to a higher stature within that category, given your devotion and your love of doing it.  So keep moving toward what you love.

     It's not always just one little particular thing that jumps out.  People think they just have to know it from a young age, "I just knew from a child that I wanted to be a rodeo clown, or I wanted to be a ballerina, or I knew I wanted to be a pro basketball player."  Now those are awfully specific.  It doesn't have to be that specific for it to be really fulfilling and gratifying.

        Look at the life of Woody Allen.  Now I go way back in terms of years, and I remember Woody Allen when he was a stand-up comedian and that's all he did, and he would go on stage and he would be nervous and tell these jokes; and he was a great writer of comedy so his jokes were hilarious, and he wasn't great at delivering anything, but he made that a plus by just exaggerating that. Hemming and hawing, and pulling at his sleeve, and coughing, and starting sentences over again. That was part of the fun.  But he truly was uncomfortable, standing up and delivering his comedy in that format.  So, he was close to what he loved, but not all the way there yet.  So then he made a move into writing short stories and little pieces for the New Yorker, then he wrote a play.  The play was put on, it got great reviews and it was fun for him to do, and then he wrote a movie, and then he wrote another movie, and he left stand-up comedy, he left writing plays and he really got into what he loved the most-writing and directing movies-and that became his thing and that became the way he made all the money he made. 

    Life can be that!  You keep moving a little bit here, a few degrees there and you keep evolving into things you love even more. So if you're working inside an organization, and you have a feeling that what you are doing is not your true calling, but it might be close enough that you are doing well, keep your mind open and keep looking because a little move here, a little move there, and you can keep moving closer and closer and closer to it. 

     A lot of people these days change jobs easily, leave their work and start a business at home.  I have a lot of clients who are in one job for a major organization of some kind, but in the back of their mind always wanted to do something else.  Let's say they loved arts and crafts, they love the internet. So in their spare time they would sell arts and crafts on the internet and set up a website and they would do that in the evenings, and have fun with that over the weekend, and then that spare hobby job would become so good and so fruitful that they would be in a position financially to move from their day- job into their home-office job full time.  I've had a lot of my coaching clients do that, and so that's an easy way to transition from job to job these days.  If you want to start something on your own, you don't have to quit your job to do it, you can do a little bit of it here and there and let it grow nicely on the side and once you get the signs that it's up and running and that it can support you, boom ... you're gone and that's what you do. 

    Other friends of mine have left the company they are with, and then sold themselves back to that company as a consultant, so now they only go in one day a week, do their very best thing, get a nice fee for that, and use the other four days for things they love to do even more. 

    So in today's global market, with all the leverage that the internet gives you to reach out to the world instantly, it's much easier to find what you love to do and tap into it than it ever was before.  Much easier.  A lot of people I know now are writing books.  They would never have dreamed of writing books before, because in the past (not too distant past) if you wrote a book, you had to find a publisher.  Otherwise, your book would never be in any bookstores and so people would not have a chance of reading your book.  Shelf space was everything.  How do I get a publisher that would get my book on the shelves in the bookstores so I have a chance of becoming an author who is popular?  Well today you can skip all those steps!  You can publish your own book, and people can buy it off your website.  You can even put it on Amazon, after you have published it yourself and people buy it not knowing, or caring, whether your book has been published by a major publisher or is self-published.  Many of them don't even know.  A lot of authors today who have had books published by major publishers, also self-publish some of their books and their readers don't know which is which, or care.  Who cares?  If a book is good and it looks good enough to read, why do I care where it was published?  Makes no difference. 

    So these, days if you've got something you are good at, something you are good at writing about or expressing,  in any other way, as music, as video, as anything--the internet offers the ability for you to take it right to the world directly, and if it's good, you can make money off of it immediately.  So the prospects for creating wealth are greater than ever before for someone born into this global market, with the access that you have with your computer to the entire market. I know these are "hard times" but that's just a thought that drags you down.

     More than ever before, it's vital and important that you find what your true calling is, that you access that, that you really look back in your life and ask yourself, when, while working or interacting with humans, have I been happiest?  Really answer that question.  It could be that you were taking care of some elderly people once, and doing it as a favor to a family member, and it gave you great job.  Well, you might want to start an elder care center or service where you go into people's homes; but find it in what you love.  There's an old saying:  "Do what you love, and the money will follow." It's really true, the more you can get close to what it is that you love doing, the faster people will want to be with you, will want to access that; because people really love to pay for things that are joyfully created, joyfully delivered in terms of service.  They love paying for that.  They don't like paying for things that are reluctantly delivered, poor work, you can really tell that that person really doesn't like working there.  We've all had that experience--of going into some restaurant, or some store, or some place of business, where we can tell that the people in there were hired because they were teenagers and you didn't have to pay them much, or for some reason other than them loving that work.  And because they don't love that work---it's very obvious---they serve you poorly, they're rude, they don't even look at you when they check you out.  It's completely negative experience.  And the chances of that operation really thriving in the long run are not great.  No love, no money.

     What we really have the ability to do is to link love, service and wealth together.  In the past those three things were not linked.  That was not the key to making money.  Today it is.  We're enlightened enough to see it and the global marketplace is fertile enough to receive it.  Love, service, wealth.  Love, service, wealth.  If I can get that pattern going----get that rhythm----get that mantra in my mind.  What do I love to do for people?  How can I serve more people with it?  And wealth will come as a result of that. 

     In the past, it was different.  In the very near past it was duty, it was obligation, it was you have to figure out a way to earn a living, you have to somehow win a position, somewhere, and it was all a STRUGGLE and it was all about manipulating, and politics and winning people over, and playing the game.  All the old style, hierarchal structures of companies based on the old monarchy systems where there are superior humans and then subservient serfs---and that whole paradigm is being dissolved by powerful individuals who do what they love, then sell it, and make a lot of money, and keep the thing rolling. Fearless.