I love your ikiverse. Isn't it funny how we can identify our ikigai and live by it until the world flips upside-down around us? Yet how cool that we can introspect and meet our ikigai in our shocked state and actually find unconditional support for us in our condition?
How cool that you’re on this podcast! I’ll have a listen in a bit.
I love cheering people on and reminding them that it’s never too late. I will sometimes use myself as an example, in that no one ever asks me when I graduated with my MA in Clinical Psych, nor how old I was, nor what grades I got.
Once I began doing it, and living my best version of myself, there were no questions about how long it took me to arrive there 🤗 ( btw, I was an Economics major in undergrad, with psych courses as electives, and didn’t begin my MA until I was 40, single parenting 2 kids and working 30 hours per week)
"We build our vessel – accumulating experiences, skills, and achievements. Then comes the life-changing work of uncovering what truly belongs inside that vessel."
It does not relegate our past to water under the bridge. It needed to happen. I often say that what we needed to know there may have been no other way of learning. Next is the intentional work.
I'm enrolled in a year-long online course offered by Spirit Rock Meditation Center based on the book by Stephen Levine: A Year to Live.
You want to come face-to-face with what was & what can be? Practice living as if you have one year left.
I recalled something the other day: some years ago I was talking on the phone with a dear dear friend. 30 days later I received an email from a mutual friend telling me he had dropped dead of a heart attack. He had been stacking firewood.
As the elders say: Pay attention. Learn quickly. We don't have all the time in the world.
I love your ikiverse. Isn't it funny how we can identify our ikigai and live by it until the world flips upside-down around us? Yet how cool that we can introspect and meet our ikigai in our shocked state and actually find unconditional support for us in our condition?
How cool that you’re on this podcast! I’ll have a listen in a bit.
I love cheering people on and reminding them that it’s never too late. I will sometimes use myself as an example, in that no one ever asks me when I graduated with my MA in Clinical Psych, nor how old I was, nor what grades I got.
Once I began doing it, and living my best version of myself, there were no questions about how long it took me to arrive there 🤗 ( btw, I was an Economics major in undergrad, with psych courses as electives, and didn’t begin my MA until I was 40, single parenting 2 kids and working 30 hours per week)
This is going to stock with me:
"We build our vessel – accumulating experiences, skills, and achievements. Then comes the life-changing work of uncovering what truly belongs inside that vessel."
It does not relegate our past to water under the bridge. It needed to happen. I often say that what we needed to know there may have been no other way of learning. Next is the intentional work.
I'm enrolled in a year-long online course offered by Spirit Rock Meditation Center based on the book by Stephen Levine: A Year to Live.
You want to come face-to-face with what was & what can be? Practice living as if you have one year left.
I recalled something the other day: some years ago I was talking on the phone with a dear dear friend. 30 days later I received an email from a mutual friend telling me he had dropped dead of a heart attack. He had been stacking firewood.
As the elders say: Pay attention. Learn quickly. We don't have all the time in the world.
Loved the podcast!