Thought for the Day - To Uplift Your Life, Your Work, Give It a Purpose

 Life is dull. Our work is boring. We are too small to make a difference. All that we do fetches us no recognition, no money, no fame. Our relationships are jaded. There seems to be nothing we can do about it. 

Give it a higher purpose, a bigger agenda and make it beautiful

We meet the same friends, visit the same places, do the same things. It is a loop that seems unending. Worse, the things we do to escape this are loaded with guilt, fear, resentment, shame. 

How do we get out of this?

It is a fair assumption to say that we have no great opinion of ourselves or what we do. But we can always change it now. Let's say we are meeting our friends for a drink - a guilt-ridden exercise which results in our feeling worse and getting flak from family and ending in self-flagellation. Or we are having another boring fight with the spouse about some old story in life.

Let's say we set an agenda with a higher purpose. Let's say we tell our friends to share their plans for the future, their dreams and aspirations, their worries and fears. Let's say we do the same with our spouses. Let's say we tell ourselves that we will set an agenda that will go beyond us, into something bigger, something that will expand us. And we do it.

Will it make you feel good? Yes of course. Suddenly, what looked like a menial, petty, shame-ridden affair now becomes something beautiful. Everyone connects into what they really want to talk about but are afraid to - and feel the expansion. Guilt, shame, fear and resentment fly out of the window. Love enters, peace and happiness enter.

For all that we do, the smallest job we do, set a higher agenda. Look to make it bigger, look to make it better, look to expand everyone at the table.

Give the prettiest of things a bigger agenda and see how the energy changes.

Try it.