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Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.
Aaron Sorkin
“Follow your Bliss” is the famous phrase coined by mythologist, Joseph Campbell and there are many who share a similar philosophy that happiness is achieved by following our unique passions. John D. Rockefeller III pragmatically claimed, “The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.” Playwright Henrik Ibsen said, “Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.” Similarly, Einstein claimed, “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” The trick is finding the arena where you are a genius and developing your talent by investing in yourself.
To invest means to commit (money, capital, energy) in order to gain a financial return. It also can be defined as spending for future advantage or benefit. Investing in yourself means spending money or energy now for future advantage or financial return. Sometimes investing in yourself looks like taking a course or a program in an area of interest. Sometimes investing in yourself looks like taking the time to exercise and keep your body healthy. For my mother, investing in herself looked like going on a retreat once a year to be by herself, away from her family so she could hear herself think and come back more centered. Investing in myself right now looks like considering the highly impractical idea of heading down to New Orleans to do some research for my script and sponge up the setting.
The trick with being a parent is balancing the investment in myself with the investment in my kids. When I calculate the money I’d spend on an excursion down south, I think of all the things that money could mean to my kids - new clothes, classes, etc. But I have this belief that if I invest in myself, it will turn out better for them in the long run. It’s all part of developing my compass, trusting it, and taking risks. Yikes!
One of the first female journalists, Shana Alexander, wrote, “Men of our generation are invested in what they do, women in what we are.” What would it take to invest what we are into what we do?
Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.
Aaron Sorkin
“Follow your Bliss” is the famous phrase coined by mythologist, Joseph Campbell and there are many who share a similar philosophy that happiness is achieved by following our unique passions. John D. Rockefeller III pragmatically claimed, “The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.” Playwright Henrik Ibsen said, “Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.” Similarly, Einstein claimed, “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” The trick is finding the arena where you are a genius and developing your talent by investing in yourself.
To invest means to commit (money, capital, energy) in order to gain a financial return. It also can be defined as spending for future advantage or benefit. Investing in yourself means spending money or energy now for future advantage or financial return. Sometimes investing in yourself looks like taking a course or a program in an area of interest. Sometimes investing in yourself looks like taking the time to exercise and keep your body healthy. For my mother, investing in herself looked like going on a retreat once a year to be by herself, away from her family so she could hear herself think and come back more centered. Investing in myself right now looks like considering the highly impractical idea of heading down to New Orleans to do some research for my script and sponge up the setting.
The trick with being a parent is balancing the investment in myself with the investment in my kids. When I calculate the money I’d spend on an excursion down south, I think of all the things that money could mean to my kids - new clothes, classes, etc. But I have this belief that if I invest in myself, it will turn out better for them in the long run. It’s all part of developing my compass, trusting it, and taking risks. Yikes!
One of the first female journalists, Shana Alexander, wrote, “Men of our generation are invested in what they do, women in what we are.” What would it take to invest what we are into what we do?
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