In just about every post on Monk at Work since its inception, I’ve presented ideas, problems, concepts, and scenarios, all about ways that people (i.e. you and me) can lose sight of our hearts as we work. I’ve also done my best to provide solutions, based on my years of experience as a spiritual and [...]
Ever have one of those times where life’s events lead you to question the course you’re on?
(Of course, we could philosophize that you think you’re on one course, but life has you on another, and you’re just figuring this out as you go…)
But what I really want to get to is this idea of a [...]
Rose-colored glasses are one thing. But what about when your glasses are a different color? Say, “sludge brown”, or “rotten-egg yellow”, or “toxic-waste green”?
Is that going to mess with your clarity? You betcha.
For the most part, the “walking backwards into the future” method works just fine. Small steps lead you down long paths, just by reaching your toes backwards, feeling the next rock, and then shifting your weight onto it. You do this every day.
But what happens when you get to a big gap? To a place in your path where your toes can’t feel the next stone? A place where there is no easy answer, and looking backwards to your past doesn’t give you any help in knowing where to step next?
A Monkifesto isn’t a sauce for your pasta… it’s a manifesto of sorts, with a monkish twist.
Look, we’re all stressed for time. The more time you take to read someone’s ebook, the less you have for everything else. And in today’s mounting tidal wave of information (that doesn’t show any signs of slowing down), you don’t need another 20-page ebook to read — you need something that packs just as much punch, but in a fraction of the time.
Enter, the Monkifesto.
If you’ve got a feeling that you’re missing something, doing something wrong, or you just feel bugged about your course through life, then you just may need to “follow the lonely.”
Do you keep running into the same dead-ends in your work? Do you feel unable to see beyond your old paradigms, or bust out of the ruts you’ve been working in?
What’s the use in trying another tactic, if you’re only drawing from the same pool of information?
You don’t need a retooling of your strategy; [...]
I believe blogging is making me a better person.
Blame it on isolation. After all, for a long time, I worked primarily at home, I live in the country, and seldom talk on the phone with people except for a specific purpose (I’m calling a company’s customer service center, or the other person is paying [...]
I talk a lot about heart, here at Monk At Work. In fact, it’s one of the things I talk about the most (looking at the “Topics” in the sidebar as I write this, you can see what I mean).
But the heart I’m talking about is not just the heart of compassionate action, as in, “I want to hit my sales goal, but when I check in with my heart, I feel that I’m holding onto my goal a bit tightly, and I need to back off a bit.”
Having that kind of self-awareness is great — essential, even, to working holistically — but it’s also just the beginning of your heart, as I’m defining it.
So, here are the top five points that, as a Monk at Work, you should know about your heart:
Today we did the “Key to Your Purpose” telecall (if you’d like to download the recording, you can get it from the “Free Teleclass: The Key to Knowing Your Purpose” post).
On the call, we talked about the importance of context, love, and connection, amongst other things. We also took some time to do a brief intuitive exercise, to start the introspective process that I’ve found to be absolutely essential to discovering and evolving your own sense of Purpose.
One of the great distinctions that has come out of examining our Purpose, for me, has been…
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