I just discovered something. I don't know if it'll be heresy - to my own thoughts and perspective, as laid out in this many layered blog - but right after I realized it, I found myself wanting to blog it, so here I am, writing you as I used to do, back in the old days before I worried about a company and brand. For, as I was telling Matti Hamalainen, a friend and coworker who plowed through snow to come pick me up at the airport yesterday, there is a false difference between the person who goes to work (professional) and the life outside of it (personal). That may have been the case in the old days, back before those of us who today live in the cloud, with a - um - distributed global collaboration network - we had no choice but to go to an office and put in the old 9 to 5. Some jobs are just not made for that.
And I am blessed that I am so lucky as to be in one.
Anyway, back to my sudden 'aha' moment - I found that meaning is found, first and foremost, inside one's self. As have many, I sought meaning outside myself - particularly in my work. There was an invaluable first step right there, taking the conscious decision to align my choices with my values. That path led to this moment where i found, if that were so, then it would follow that anything now that i choose to do, must indeed align with my values, thus, freeing me from the need to think about it. It liberates me now to explore avenues and interest areas of work without that burden of feeling that I was somehow shortchanging the BoP. Come now, they don't know who I am and have enough cares to worry about already.
Who was it who said that ego makes for a bad master but an excellent slave?
A brand new day indeed.
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