Do You Survive or Thrive?
This is a difficult question in this day and age. Few of you remain untouched by economic loss in an unpredictable economy and many have suffered lost homes, jobs, income and retirement. Add to that the increased stress of holding the jobs you already have that have become increasingly swollen with responsibility. The same numbers of tasks need to be completed with fewer employees.
So although it is definitely a blessing to have retained your job, the stress of balancing family and work can be overwhelming. On the flip side, you know you have a regular paycheck, and possibly benefits like health coverage, and paid sick days and vacation.
If you work at what you love, however, you could be thriving! Imagine being able to control your own time, schedule, and choice of tasks, and make an income? While this may sound ideal, some of you are just not suited to 'self-direction.' To run your own business and doing what you've always been passionate about also has its pros and cons.
The Human Survival Tool
So how do you live in this world with manageable stress and make a living wage? This is a question that many of you struggle with, or ignore completely because you feel there just isn't an acceptable answer. One answer is to design your own solution and identify just what it is that keeps you from living a fulfilling life. After all, each of you is given only one.
What if I told you the first step towards living a happier, less stressful life lies within yourself? It is something everyone is born with but your education may have discounted. The answer may lie in the right hemisphere of what has been shown to be the most under utilized super computer on Earth, your brain.
Humans are given a brain with two hemispheres that each have their own functions for a reason. Most jobs require an overwhelming amount of left-brain activity, including fact-based, organizational, detail-oriented, and deadline-driven tasks, and in the U.S. these tasks are driven by the economy. Right-brain tasks, including intuitive, imaginative, big-picture, project-oriented tasks, don't seem to be rewarded nearly as much. The goal would be to use both hemispheres equally, and augment left-brain activities with more creative thinking.
This is a uniquely human ability and the potential to live and think creatively, with imagination, is what makes you human. It is your survival tool for living in an insecure and ever-changing world. The more challenging the world is to live in, the more imagination is needed to meet that challenge.
How can you strengthen your right-brain creative thinking muscle? The answer is to add more right-brain tasks into your life by pursuing whatever makes you happy, whatever you are passionate about, whatever you do well - in your spare time. These are the activities that place you 'in the zone' - activities that you enjoy so much that you are unaware of time or place. These are the activities that spark imagination. And if you could make an income, a 'living,' with what you love, imagine how much happier you would be. Some of you have already turned your art or hobby into a partial income, which is the first step towards working at what you love!
This is a difficult question in this day and age. Few of you remain untouched by economic loss in an unpredictable economy and many have suffered lost homes, jobs, income and retirement. Add to that the increased stress of holding the jobs you already have that have become increasingly swollen with responsibility. The same numbers of tasks need to be completed with fewer employees.
So although it is definitely a blessing to have retained your job, the stress of balancing family and work can be overwhelming. On the flip side, you know you have a regular paycheck, and possibly benefits like health coverage, and paid sick days and vacation.
If you work at what you love, however, you could be thriving! Imagine being able to control your own time, schedule, and choice of tasks, and make an income? While this may sound ideal, some of you are just not suited to 'self-direction.' To run your own business and doing what you've always been passionate about also has its pros and cons.
The Human Survival Tool
So how do you live in this world with manageable stress and make a living wage? This is a question that many of you struggle with, or ignore completely because you feel there just isn't an acceptable answer. One answer is to design your own solution and identify just what it is that keeps you from living a fulfilling life. After all, each of you is given only one.
What if I told you the first step towards living a happier, less stressful life lies within yourself? It is something everyone is born with but your education may have discounted. The answer may lie in the right hemisphere of what has been shown to be the most under utilized super computer on Earth, your brain.
Humans are given a brain with two hemispheres that each have their own functions for a reason. Most jobs require an overwhelming amount of left-brain activity, including fact-based, organizational, detail-oriented, and deadline-driven tasks, and in the U.S. these tasks are driven by the economy. Right-brain tasks, including intuitive, imaginative, big-picture, project-oriented tasks, don't seem to be rewarded nearly as much. The goal would be to use both hemispheres equally, and augment left-brain activities with more creative thinking.
This is a uniquely human ability and the potential to live and think creatively, with imagination, is what makes you human. It is your survival tool for living in an insecure and ever-changing world. The more challenging the world is to live in, the more imagination is needed to meet that challenge.
How can you strengthen your right-brain creative thinking muscle? The answer is to add more right-brain tasks into your life by pursuing whatever makes you happy, whatever you are passionate about, whatever you do well - in your spare time. These are the activities that place you 'in the zone' - activities that you enjoy so much that you are unaware of time or place. These are the activities that spark imagination. And if you could make an income, a 'living,' with what you love, imagine how much happier you would be. Some of you have already turned your art or hobby into a partial income, which is the first step towards working at what you love!
I am Wendy Fallon and a professional writer, artist and author of two e-publications.
Learn to creatively re-evaluate your personal resources and knowledge and change the direction of your life. Make Art, Be Happy - How to Live Well by Increasing Creativity & Improving Your Life, a 120-page E-Book, provides you with step-by-step guidance and creative thinking exercises, inspiration, motivation and suggestions that can spark your imagination.
Not only a fun activity, hand drawing is also a right-brain exercise that can strengthen creative thought and decrease stress. Learn how in this 20-page E-Tutorial, Beginning Drawing for Adults Who Think They Can't.
Learn to creatively re-evaluate your personal resources and knowledge and change the direction of your life. Make Art, Be Happy - How to Live Well by Increasing Creativity & Improving Your Life, a 120-page E-Book, provides you with step-by-step guidance and creative thinking exercises, inspiration, motivation and suggestions that can spark your imagination.
Not only a fun activity, hand drawing is also a right-brain exercise that can strengthen creative thought and decrease stress. Learn how in this 20-page E-Tutorial, Beginning Drawing for Adults Who Think They Can't.
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