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I loved the cut and thrust of my work - until I didn't.
I sought advice - from books, coaches, friends.
The advice - do what you love.
Well I had been doing what I loved and I fell out of love with it.
When I asked myself what I would love the answer loud and clear was - a chocolate muffin. I asked again.
The answer was consistent, unambiguous, it was always a chocolate muffin.
Now in my mind chocolate muffins are not only frivolous they are evil, a threat to a girl's waistline.
No matter how I looked at it the answer to my question was nonsensical. How could chocolate muffins have anything to do with a career path?!
First I was frustrated then despondent and eventually despairing.
What was a girl to do? I was up against the wall of my desire. The only way forward was through. In the end I surrendered.
I had a chocolate muffin, the best most delicious chocolate muffin and I thoroughly enjoyed giving myself permission to have it.
That I discovered was the trick, not to make a career path out of what I love but just plainly and simply to give myself what I love.
I discovered that giving myself what I love nourishes me, gives me pleasure in the moment and in that pleasure I am no longer searching or seeking I am just being.
I moved on from chocolate muffins to swimming naked in the ocean, living in the country, by the ocean, writing, following the magical winding path of my imagination and somehow that has become what I do and who I am.
So eat what you love I say and see where it leads to.
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