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Editor and Publisher: Teresa Proudlove
Issue #041 July 31, 2007

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These 579 words will take you a little less than two minutes to read. Read on if you aspire to meaningful work.”

Table of Contents

1. The Future Burden

2. Who Knows the Future?

3. Aspiring to Meaningful Work

Last night, while driving my teenage son and friend past their Secondary School I commented, “Imagine guys, only one more year to go before you’re finished school. That must feel pretty good.” In a lost, haunting voice my son’s friend replied, “I don’t want school to end. I don’t know what to do with the rest of my life.”

Hearing the burden, far too heavy for seventeen year old shoulders, I said, “Oh don’t you know? Nobody knows what to do with the rest of their life. It’s all about going out, trying life on and finding our way as we go.” What a burden to place on our young folk or ourselves – that of knowing our future.

We adults query and pressure our high school kids about their future – with the assumption being these fledging adults should know their path. Ironically, how many of us wise, grown-up adults knew our path in high school or indeed, know our future path even now?

I had no clue what to do with the rest of my life when I left high school (other than I wanted to world travel). Many midlife people in my workshops have half jokingly said, “I still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up.” Laying down this mythical idea of “knowing our future path” would relieve us and our teenagers of a worrisome burden.

Instead, can we be OK right here in this present moment with “not knowing our future path,” and can we accept our life as it is now? Even as we go through times of not working, or working at jobs that seem menial we can aspire to make our life/work meaningful now?

Like last night. My son thought he and I were going next door to wash windows for the elderly woman next door and he’d make some cash. Little did he know washing windows could be meaningful lifework. He shared this aged woman’s banter and laughed at her jokes whilst washing the windows.

Then, after the job was done, this six foot four athlete folded himself into her dainty dining room chair to listen to well-intentioned advice on drugs, drinking, getting an education, and turning to his mother for sage guidance. Over three large glasses of orange juice and many cookies this huge athlete listened to this tiny, silver-haired dynamo tell stories of surviving a concentration camp with two babies through eating dirt and dandelions.

Threaded throughout the night were also, her bright memories – which our boy invoked – or her long dead, twenty-two year old son. Upon leaving, we window washers warmly hugged our patron – whom only tonight we’d come to briefly know. We can make any work, any moment soul work – our lifework.

Of course, I am not speaking of toxic environments or never a thought toward our future. Instead, I am simply suggesting we relieve ourselves of the incessant worry we should be doing something bigger, more worthwhile somewhere else and fill each moment with meaning now. So my friends, let us aspire toward making our work meaningful in each and every moment - regardless of the work.

May you connect with and fully express your True Self.

Warmly,

Create the Life and Work You Love!

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