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In preparation for my upcoming trip to Sedona, AZ, to attend the Inspired Livelihood Workshop, I have been doing a lot of thinking and soul searching. I have also been working on ideas about what my business would look like.
Last week, I sat down to create an e-course based on research and my personal experience. I am going to call it How to quit your mind-numbing, soul-sucking, dreams-killing job and live happily ever after.
I wrote the first lesson, about why it is important to know what happily ever after means to you.
I started to type the second lesson, and I froze. The first sentence I wanted to type, which I never did, was “Did you do the exercise? Did you decide what happily ever after would look like to you?” The reason I froze was because I had not done the exercise myself.
Try as I may, I couldn’t get myself to type that first sentence. I put the e-course aside in order to take time to decide what happily ever after would mean to me. I couldn’t come up with anything that would satisfy me. So, I made a mental note that I am going to finish this exercise before I move forward with my plans on writing the e-course.
Then yesterday, during a slow period at work between twisting balloons, I found myself scribbling on a piece of paper. I wrote the heading at top of the page, and the words started to spill on to the page. This is what I came up with.
What does Happily Ever After looks like?
I am happily unattached and traveling around the world.
I have a business that is centered on helping people find what it means to live happily ever after. I am able to operate this business from wherever I happen to be; and which not only sustains my travels and my elegant lifestyle, but is also a growing asset that I can pass along when I transit out of the physical.
I am always in touch with my immediate family, and through my travels I am also expanding my connection with my extended family of cousins and their progeny who are scattered all over the world.
I have an international pilot’s license, and I fly around whenever I feel like it, because, I have access to private airplanes all over the world.
I have a healthy mind, body and spirit; and I enjoy a sense of adventure in all my travels.
I have finally mastered (or so I think) the art of living in the present moment.
So, what does Happily Ever After mean to you? Tell us about it in the comments, or give it some serious thought.
Good idea Rasheed. I need to assess and make sure I have a clear picture, myself. I look forward to the book.
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Hey thanks for stopping by, James.
Yeah it was an eye opener for me too, but I am very satisfied with this scenario. I will keep you posted on the e-course as it nears completion.
Rasheed
Happily / ever / after / ….this to me implies that I will be HAPPY – FOREVER – AFTER something has happened or will be happening. It sounds like being happy must be conditional to circumstances or after effects that will come in the future. Why not take a closer view of the present state of mind instead and say…I AM HAPPY….and let everything else revolve around it.
Gabriel,
I agree with what you are saying. Happiness has to be unconditional. I always say, it is an inside job. But, what I was talking about here was more in line with the context of cultural programing of living happily ever after, as in fairy tales. Yes, happiness is an inside job, and what I am saying is that most people have been trained/programmed to see it as an outside job. So before they can make the switch from outside to inside, if they can just get to understand what is meaningful in their life, it becomes easy to enjoy happiness in the current moment.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, and thanks for the support.
Rasheed