How to Nourish the Soul by Growing Lifework like a Hunter
I don’t normally contemplate the best ways to hunt animals(!), but the other day I had a Big Dream about shooting a deer and it gave me insight into how to pursue lifework that nourishes the soul.
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How is your calling influenced by your ancestral lineage?
In honor of Samhain (sa’ win), the Celtic holiday that honors the ancestors, I decided to write about ancestral inheritance and how it relates to creating lifework you love.
To get started, I invite you to reflect on the following:
Who were your ancestors?
What did they stand for?
What did they do in their lifetime?
Are there any behavioral or vocational patterns that are carried from generation to generation? Continue reading
What’s the connection between your soul’s longing and lifework?
How well do you incorporate your soul’s longing in your lifework?
I don’t know about you, but the more intentional I am about creating lifework I love, the more I realize how easy it is to fool myself into thinking small. This happens every time I second guess a Big Dream and end up with a whittled down version of my original idea.
Of course, I’m not alone in this. I see other people doing it all the time, especially women.
Sadly, it’s easy to ignore the truth that dwells in our hearts, or feel confused about who we are and what we love to do, especially when what we love does not easily fall into a society-approved, rational or logical category.
But growing great lifework isn’t usually about rational choices. It’s about actively and creatively engaging our soul’s longing.
So how do you know what your soul longs for? Continue reading
Love Your Lifework
The first step to growing meaningful lifework is to know who you are at your core, because to love your lifework, you must know what you love.
Truly, it’s not as easy as it seems to know oneself fully and completely. It’s an ongoing process that requires constant self-reflection.
What is Lifework?
The Oxford American Dictionary defines “lifework” as the “the major or total work of a person’s life.” That definition is too limiting for my purposes, so I’m redefining it like this:
Lifework is more than a job or something you do to make money, although that is part of it. The emphasis is on “life” instead of “work”, and the goal is to share your joys, innate talents and gifts (or “fruits of love”) with the world.
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