Am I doing what I am second-best at? Okay, the quick answer is that what I am doing is giving me a nice, secure life, and I am good at it, even like it a bit. Is there any room for a question like, ‘Why not do what I really love, instead?’
‘What I am good at’ is a big deal in today’s culture. It is used as the measuring stick for our careers. Get good at something and then try to find a job in that market. Is that because our lives are evaluated on what the rewards are, instead of in what we would want to spend our lives doing…perhaps something we love to do, even though the financial return may be less?
How many of us stepped into a job when we were younger, got good at it, rose through the ranks until we were making a commendable income, stretched our lives out into the home-owner, married-with-kids scenario and without giving it any second thought, settled into the society-driven consumer rat-race and that became our life? Worse, we never questioned it because ‘that is the way things work’ isn’t it? That is what our parents did and besides, I am doing better than my parents did so that counts for something, doesn’t it?
If this is sounding like, ‘Who am I, really?’ then we are asking ourselves a question whose answer matters a great deal. It is different from ‘who I am’ as in ‘what do I do in order to have, in order to have an identity?’
Being authentic to the core, our core, is what matters.
http://demersgroup.com/estore/authentic-to-the-core/
Rich