Are you following your Bliss?

I find that many of us do what we think we are supposed to do. Or think that we are stuck in the current situation--often not even realizing the feeling of "stuck."

Last week one of my adult literacy students was looking for work. He kept trying to submit his application to a large company that had The most ridiculous online application. I asked my student why he felt determined to apply to this particular company--seeing how difficult this application process was. He told me that someone at a job placement office told him that the company is hiring. That's it? Yes, apparently.

I then asked if he wanted to work there, I mean, really wanted to work there. He was indifferent. Next I asked him what he really wanted to do. He said he wanted to work with food. OK, now we're talking, I thought.

I said, "let's work on your resume to reflect your love of food and cooking and focus on that instead of this other job." So we did.

This was a huge lesson for me and a reminder, wake up call, or whatever you want to call it. I know that in an "economic situation" like the one we currently find ourselves in, people are thinking they had better hold onto their hats and do what they can, not necessarily what they want to do.

How can we take more risks to follow our bliss? How can we take a step outside of this "stuck" place to tell the Universe we are ready to live our best lives, not the ones that someone else tells us to live?

In Peace,
Sare