do what i love

i love skiing. this will be my 16th season now. last year i didn’t even get the chance to go out, which is depressing as all hell. the freedom of being on the slopes is just incredible. i can put on my ipod and get lost in the music, or enjoy nature and the swish of my skis against the snow and ice. yes, i think i will set some time aside this year to do this.

Do what you’re passionate about, do what excites you right now. Create something amazing. Pour yourself energetically into a project. Build something new. And what you think you’re creating might turn out to be completely different from what emerges, but you’ll have fun doing it and something even better might be revealed.
Do act, in the moment. Giving yourself to the moment doesn’t mean being passive and just letting life happen. It means acting, but doing what is best at this moment, what you are excited about right now, what needs to be done, in the present.

“If you’ve found something you really like to do – say write beautiful sentences – not because of the possible benefits to the world of doing it, but because doing it brings you the satisfaction and sense of completeness nothing else can, then do it at the highest level of performance you are capable of, and leave the world and its problems to others. This is a lesson I have preached before in these columns when the subject was teaching, and it is a lesson that can be applied, I believe, to any project that offers as a prime reason for prosecuting it the pleasure, a wholly internal pleasure, of its own accomplishment. And if your project doesn’t offer that pleasure (perhaps among others) you might want to think again about your commitment to it.”
(Stanley Fish, nytimes)
http://fish.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/02/11/why-do-writers-write/

I’m doing shadowing for a dentist; I want to see smiles.

And i have no idea what it is

i want to get up every day and feel good about going to work

I suppose I relate this more to my working life rather than any other aspect of my life. I’m fed up of having pointless, dead-end jobs but I know it won’t be forever and that’s what I have to keep telling myself to keep me sane. I’ve got one more year until I finish my nutrition degree and although I still want to go on to be a dietician at least this will be one step closer to my goal.

after taking a wonderful career search course that focuses on the importance of learning about oneself in a more holistic way, I’ve discovered that I need find more clarity on what it is that I am passionate about, things that make me happy, then taking that info and do what ever it is as long as it follows my values. It a careful formula that I can focus on now. I can see a a pin-hole sized light at the end of the tunnel..

Took about 5 years in the workforce before I found this great job of mine. Its in the field that I studied, has flextime, open windows, music playing and very little stress. Couldn’t be happier – never thought this would happen. I’ve been here a year.

Since I was 12 I knew I wanted to record music, but all I heard was that I’d change my mind before I graduated. well log story short, I diddnt. I left home in NY to go to school in AZ, with an apartment and everything at the age of 17- started fresh, no firends, no family in AZ. After finishing school I moved to Houston TX where I am now working as an Audio Engineer. I wouldnt trade my job for anything. It is a dream come true and I am proud of myself for all the hard work it took to get here. I don’t take this for granted and I am very thankfull for it. Not many people can say they love what they do-