be passionate about my work

Any thoughts:

How do I set up room for passion at a new job?

From today’s serendipitously heart-centric yoga class:

Breathe in, picturing all of you converging on your heart and imagining a cool, blue moon.

Breathe out, visualizing warm radiant sun energy shining out of your heart through your whole body, the room, the state, the planet….

I really believe passion starts within, when I feel whole and maybe even concentrated. Then I have passion to reach everywhere.

I need to either know I can do the work or have done the work. Or I need confidence that I can learn what I need. Otherwise, passion for work is just putting work on a pedestal. That will intimidate me from feeling a part of it.

Theme of the month: connection, or maybe confidence (represented by a spine of glo-stick).

I want to be enthusiastic today! I am, I don’t just want to be.

And I discovered that work is everything. My life’s work may be those 40 hours a week, or the learning to be happy when I’m alone in a cluttered room on a rainy day. I am happy about what is…because it is. How is that for resourceful!

OK, maybe this is a sugar high talking, but I really think I am turning a corner with letting things be easy and then even exciting. Yay for passion about everything!

Apparently commitment opens up the door for passion. But how to be committed? I mean, people have expectations, but that’s not the same as internal commitment. What about preparing for contingency plans, e.g. if the work goes away….

By the way, I am where I want to be in my work. I’m content with my level and the overall project goals. Networking (i.e. introducing myself to new optimistic people) helps me focus on this. So, I have underlying passion. When I seem hesistant, it is probably the resurfacing of my childhood thoughts about not wanting to seem like a nerd. But, as I know now, nerds rule! I want to be even more of a nerd!

I’ve gotten very passionate about my hobby; it’s good to experience that elation in an area that “doesn’t really matter”. However, the time/thought/creative energy for the hobby seems to squeeze out that for work or almost even vacation. Of course, I know I will be more satisfied with good work results then good hobby results. Work is how I’ve chosen to find meaning in life for several years. I’ve refined what I really wanted in work (the culture, the teamwork, the end product) and attained it! The obstacles now are perfectionism and impatience and detail-orientation and fears of success and failure. Just reminding myself that it is I that gets in my way, so it is I that can clear the way too :).