Latest / Dits & Dahs / what do I want to do when I grow up?
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- Sue: Growing up as a child, I recall from very early days that my parents were told we were both smart, talented. We could do anything we put our minds to and succeed with it, kind of kids. My parents busted their butts to earn the money that was needed to support whatever our interests were and musical instruments and such. Driving us there, being a roadie in my case when I was a teenager. They were committed to our success. Good parenting. responsible humans raising young humans. And as you grow up and excel at whatever it is that you do and make a life for yourself, you start to see through the eyes of others how your talents, your abilities, your tools align with theirs. Well you develop loyal relationships of co workers, you know, you work together good as a team, kind of thing. And it might not be the precise gift that you think that it is that makes the success of that group. You might not ever find that out until I don't know, you're in your sixties, like I am. I was always focused on excelling in music. First it started off as a learning how to play instruments and then playing professionally with those instruments and teaching privately those instruments and conveying to larger groups of musicians as a in case of emergency conductor. And then eventually into business administration and publishing and stuff. And so you get to this place where I'm at now, underemployed at sixty five and a widow. Where things are allowing me time wise to reflect on my life's purpose. And now you recognize that there's no point in trying to make it forced into revealing itself, just knowing that you're around it, waiting for it to bloom. You've done all your homework to make it so on your part. Yeah, you just wait for divine timing for it all to align with everything else in the world. And it's the physical realm of where you get these one truths. Private truths. Well, not so private, you God knows what's going on. It's not you're waiting for something to happen. This time has been set aside for you to lean into it and make the best use of it. Explore. Figure out what it is that you do want to do. And of course the only point of reference I have is when I was a kid preparing for college. I mean I knew what I wanted to do from the time I was you know, a year and a half old or some absurd age. I was always gonna do something with music at that point when you're a year and a half. The only thing you see is your mom or dad playing a musical instrument and whatever you saw on the television in my generation. And you thought, ⁓ that's cool, I'll do that. Dad hands you a clarinet, and maybe brother had played the saxophone and there's an organ in the living room. So, you know, you have everything to pursue that dream from the get-go, thanks to their hard work on so many levels. But that reference point doesn't correspond in a way that is useful now at sixty five. And I think the default question that people ask of themselves when they get to this place is, ⁓ well, what do you like to do? Cause then there's the career counselor that you and dealt with years ago trying to fit you into a job when there were plenty, not many competing for that work. Yeah, and the career counselor would say, Well, you're good at this, this and this. Well, why don't we think of, you know, putting out your shingle in this area? And you go about that, and maybe you get a couple of jobs, but that whole p process doesn't work here either. I'm just recognizing that this whole frame that I'm now living in life just be able to make ends meet, spend as much time as I'm able, and create. In some ways, very small parts of humanity know me, the kind of work and kind of person that I am and and as I go through this process of more clearly defining what my divine purpose is. The first one of course is that You got air in your lungs, so you got hope and you're breathing, so you're living your life. You're you're doing it right in the now. I mean, I don't need to erect a stage and put bunting up to to state that fact. I can just start playing music in my studio or singing right now. And I think that's the immediacy of understanding as an older person, the value of manifesting, because once you understand from life and allowing time to pass, because you have no other choice. That when you get to this free form life, because you're in my case underemployed, I have more time than I need for myself, by filling it up with creating content, making that leap to being fully aware when you're in that moment that that is your life purpose. And that will help further guide your decisions going forward. You know, those little yes-no decisions. When over the years I think I've heard a lot of adages, probably you have too, of you know, do what you love and the money will follow. Okay, I'm doing what I love. Money's not following. And there's no doubt that my entire life so far has been living my passion of expressing myself as fully as I'm able with music. Being aware is the only way that you can cope with staying in the flow and not allowing yourself to be overtaken when time passes. So as I figure out in the universal world, spiritual world, what my life's purpose is now. I'm doing my best not to spend more than I earned, as well as looking into obviously every job that I feel I'm qualified for, applying for. The other thing is about the temperance mindset. While you're in the place of knowing what your life's purpose is and knowing that the universe knows what it is but hasn't s spread the word publicly. It's having patience. You just keep doing what you have to do, being aware of it and being mindful, fully present and not worrying about whether anybody else sees it or not, or listens to it in my case, and to never be put off from doing it. Period. And the haters don't like that. I can't push you off your pedestal when you have that kind of fortitude. And I'm stubborn too at times. That helps. No one outside of me gets to tell me what my life is about. I am certainly not gonna manifest by listening to what you want to tell me what my life is. And create it for myself inadvertently just by listening to you. It all comes down to one simple universal truth. Spiritual trespassing is not acceptable. So that's why I particularly make a habit of letting you know my gratitude when you share energy by listening to my content. Thank you.