Who am I = What do I do?
In the seeking peace and joy universe many of us spend many a day/year dancing or wrestling with big questions like Who am I and what should I do with my life? Answering these heavy questions often requires doing some exploration and testing of activities to see how one fits in. Some professionals encourage folks to start with activities they might enjoy so that choices of vocation and use of recreational time wind up in some sort of harmony and balance. This makes sense. Now these same professionals often urge us to match traits and values with activities to make decisions about our purposes in life.
Well… this past week marks the beginning of the NFL (American Football) season and one thing is clear.. human beings really love competition.
It is also clear that many people have a wide variety of skills, interests, and values so obviously exploring “what should I do?” Matters calls for some research..so this is what happened. A search revealed some results combining competition, intellectual challenges, and a variety of physical activities such as jumping, dancing, etc.
Well here’s the perfect match for most Americans who want to combine healthy exercise with a competitive mental activity…
Chess boxing
Yes my friends there is such a thing. In fact for just over twenty years there has actually been A professional association devoted to this. Apparently competitors make a chess move and then box for a few minutes and then alternate these things until one of the players either gets check mate or gets knocked out. Research also revealed that the average annual income for chess boxers is around $43,000.
Now there are some seeking peace and joy implications for this sort of result, however, first we might also know it’s good to have career options so here’s a few suggestions that additional research may uncover…just not yet.
How aboutNASCAR Knitting Speed Skating Scrabble referee, or in your spare time doing a little archery tennis?
Okay… maybe the point is… people and circumstances along with geography, educational opportunities, cultural obligations (the list of variables goes on and on) can thwart (love that word) almost any matching activities—job—purpose scheme no matter how many computers and data banks we throw at it. So how then do we carve out the answers? No one knows for sure…. Well that’s not very satisfying you say… true..but it’s pretty helpful… What?
You see when we start looking to others to tell us who we are and what we should do we discount the knowledge housed in the soul of the person who is the real expert on what we like and what we have to offer… that’s right it’s you! Look we don’t advise “Cannonball Catcher” or “industrial Dog Polisher” for recent grads…but we do suggest that one experiments because there are a lot of jobs to do and a lot of activities to explore and if you are lucky you will get to experience many of each. Can one improve the odds of having this happen? Probably and here’s how..
Wake up in the morning… Ask the universe what you can do fort today. Then ask what are the lessons I learned yesterday… Next dedicate yourself to shaping activities that consider if the results of those tasks done by others to you would be as rewarding as they will be when you do them… and then … take a moment to ponder… “What if I’m wrong?”
Oh and if someone asks “who wants to be the javelin catcher today?… keep your hand down…
Peace
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