Alcoholism Support Group
Alcoholism is the continued consumption of alcoholic beverages, even when it is negatively affecting your health, work, relationships and life. If you think alcohol is causing you to lose control, it's time to seek help. Our group is a safe place to vent, check in, get back up if you fall, and reach sobriety.
Get happiness out of your work, or you may never know what happiness is. -Elbert Hubbard
In a classic Woody Allen scene in the movie What's New, Pussycat? Woody meets a friend on a Paris street and tells him he has just gotten a new job helping the lovely dancers of the Folies Bergere to get dressed before their performances. "How much is the pay?" asks his friend. "Twenty sous per week," answers Allen. "Twenty sous per week? That's next to nothing!" the friend chides him.
"I know," Woody answers. "But it was all I could afford."
You know you are in your right job when you have a sneaky feeling you should be paying someone for the opportunity to do it. While this does not mean you need to pay to do it (indeed, the universe will pay you to be in your right place), it points to the truth that right livelihood blesses the giver of a service as much as the receiver.
If you're searching for your right livelihood or evaluating your current work in light of your vision, a good question to ask is, "What would I be doing even if I weren't getting paid for it?" What turns you on so much that you would do it for sheer delight? That is the arrow to follow toward work that will bring you joy as well as prosperity.
Prosperity is not a level of income; it is a consciousness. If you are happy, productive, and giving service in a profession, you are living in the abundance consciousness. This attitude will move you to produce quality work and draw to you plentiful good in the form of money or other material support. When you do what you do and not love, you affirm that the universe cannot provide you with joyful livelihood, and that compromise is required of a divine being. The universe will also mirror this attitude if you hold it.
I receive as much from writing and teaching as do the readers or students. Even if no one ever reads what I write, it would still be entirely worth writing it. Work from your heart, and the universe will work for you.
Help me to serve in a way that brings me joy, as well as others.
The universe supports me as I follow my bliss.
Alan Cohen A deep Breath of Life
In a classic Woody Allen scene in the movie What's New, Pussycat? Woody meets a friend on a Paris street and tells him he has just gotten a new job helping the lovely dancers of the Folies Bergere to get dressed before their performances. "How much is the pay?" asks his friend. "Twenty sous per week," answers Allen. "Twenty sous per week? That's next to nothing!" the friend chides him.
"I know," Woody answers. "But it was all I could afford."
You know you are in your right job when you have a sneaky feeling you should be paying someone for the opportunity to do it. While this does not mean you need to pay to do it (indeed, the universe will pay you to be in your right place), it points to the truth that right livelihood blesses the giver of a service as much as the receiver.
If you're searching for your right livelihood or evaluating your current work in light of your vision, a good question to ask is, "What would I be doing even if I weren't getting paid for it?" What turns you on so much that you would do it for sheer delight? That is the arrow to follow toward work that will bring you joy as well as prosperity.
Prosperity is not a level of income; it is a consciousness. If you are happy, productive, and giving service in a profession, you are living in the abundance consciousness. This attitude will move you to produce quality work and draw to you plentiful good in the form of money or other material support. When you do what you do and not love, you affirm that the universe cannot provide you with joyful livelihood, and that compromise is required of a divine being. The universe will also mirror this attitude if you hold it.
I receive as much from writing and teaching as do the readers or students. Even if no one ever reads what I write, it would still be entirely worth writing it. Work from your heart, and the universe will work for you.
Help me to serve in a way that brings me joy, as well as others.
The universe supports me as I follow my bliss.
Alan Cohen A deep Breath of Life
So, today I am grateful to be doing something I love. :-)
~Chris
Unfortunately, my job is not helping firemen into their firesuits before being called to a fire, but if they take volunteers for that, I'm all over it! hahaha! :)
No matter what you do, take pride in your performance & make the most of it whether you love your job or not. If you hate it & complain about it constantly, go somewhere else cause I"m sure there are literally hundreds of others who would LOVE to sit in your seat....
How fortunate those who have jobs are to have them and should remember that daily when something irritates them.
Have a good day all! I'm off to mine now....later tater! :)
I think too though we need to learn to find value and joy in the work we do-that may seem mundane and trivial. Heck-I was a social worker helping kids in the inner city, should be fufilling right? Well, as anyone working for the government knows, a huge portion of this job entailed what I saw as BS paperwork and cutting through tons of red tape to get these kids a little teensy weensy bit of a normal life. I think if i did it now, with more balance and sobriety-I would have gotten them in a better place with taking this paper work more seriously, even though it was tedious and seemingly for nothing.
Take pleasure in the mundane of your work-it is important. Your job-however humble and seemingly "pointless" can matter if you take it seriously and do your best and pay attention to detail.