You're off your path in life if:
1. Money is your priority. If you take a job just because you want the money but don't really care about the work involved, you are off your path;
2. You worry about what others think. If you feel embarrassed or uncomfortable doing the job you've chosen, if you worry that others will think your foolish, you are off your path. If you don't believe in the work your doing, then it is not the right work for you;
3. You focus on the end result, not the process. When you sign up for something, get involved with a project, a degree program, a job, and you keep thinking "when I'm finished I'll be making x amount of dollars. I just need to force myself to see it through"....you are probably in the wrong place. If you have to force yourself to do anything, then it's the wrong choice. A person should enjoy the learning and researching aspect of what they are doing and not just be focused on the accolades they might receive when it is all over. You are off the path;
4. You take shortcuts to achieve your objective. If you can't bring yourself to complete all the small goals in the process of reaching the big goal, you are off your path. If you try to find easier and quicker ways to get to the big goal because truthfully you don't care about the process, you just want to get it over with already, you're off your path;
5. You take on more than you can handle. If you have signed yourself up for a full time college program, as well as working full time, you have probably taken on more than you can handle. You basically set yourself up for failure. Exhaustion, stress, and loose thinking with regard to money, time and relationships all in the name of achieving a goal, is not a recipe for success, it is a recipe for disaster. If you are in a position where your daily responsibilities outweigh your free time, then you need to figure out how you can achieve your goal without losing everything in the process. Maybe take classes online instead of in person? If someone else is paying the bills (not very likely, I know), then maybe work out an agreement with them so you can complete your goal. Either way, if you set yourself up to take on more than you can physically and psychologically handle, you are off your path.
Finding your way in this life is not easy, but it is not supposed to be excrutiatingly hard either. If it is a constant struggle filled with setbacks and failures, you can guarantee you are off your path and the universe is trying to tell you so.
Monday, May 5, 2014
First Attempt at Helping Others
Last week I did something I've never done before. On my Facebook timeline I saw a post from someone who listed a link to their fundraising site. I clicked the link and read a short paragraph written by someone in my town, who I don't know, pleading for help to raise money so that he and his girlfriend could stay in their apartment. Apparently, they had a roommate who suddenly decided to move out, taking the security deposit with him. These two people in question also have two babies in their care. I felt an instant connection with them. Or an overwhelming desire to right this wrong. At the time only one person had donated $35.00. At last check, that number still remains the same.
I suddenly found myself looking up the email addresses for government officials who are in charge of the town I live in. I proceeded to send an email to the governor, senator and two representatives explaining the situation and providing the link to the fundraising site. From the governor, I got back an auto response thanking me for contacting him, and nothing else. I never heard from the town representatives at all. The only person that followed through was Senator Walter Felag. (I also called him at his home and left a detailed voice mail.) He called me the next day asking me to clarify the situation. He implied that he felt he could help. He did explain to me that he wasn't really the person who handles this sort of thing but would pass my number along to someone in the constituents office and see if there was anything they could do. The next day, I heard from a man from the constituents office and he said the town and state doesn't have any funding left to help people like this. That they could try to reach out to the housing authorities and see what they say. I told him that these people already did that and the waiting lists for housing help were closed never mind being years and years long. I gave him the phone number of the couple in question and he said he would reach out to them and explain that there was not much they could do, other than provide them with shelter information. And that ended that. I find it disappointing that there wasn't a solution to this problem. The people who are given positions in office, are limited in their ability to help. So what does that mean? All these people in this state and in every other state, who are at risk or high risk of losing their home have no where to turn for help? No where????? So they end up on the street or their mother's couch indefinitely. This is not okay and I really want to do something to change this reality. People WANT to help themselves, sometimes they just need a hand up to buy them that little extra bit of time to get their lives in order.
I suddenly found myself looking up the email addresses for government officials who are in charge of the town I live in. I proceeded to send an email to the governor, senator and two representatives explaining the situation and providing the link to the fundraising site. From the governor, I got back an auto response thanking me for contacting him, and nothing else. I never heard from the town representatives at all. The only person that followed through was Senator Walter Felag. (I also called him at his home and left a detailed voice mail.) He called me the next day asking me to clarify the situation. He implied that he felt he could help. He did explain to me that he wasn't really the person who handles this sort of thing but would pass my number along to someone in the constituents office and see if there was anything they could do. The next day, I heard from a man from the constituents office and he said the town and state doesn't have any funding left to help people like this. That they could try to reach out to the housing authorities and see what they say. I told him that these people already did that and the waiting lists for housing help were closed never mind being years and years long. I gave him the phone number of the couple in question and he said he would reach out to them and explain that there was not much they could do, other than provide them with shelter information. And that ended that. I find it disappointing that there wasn't a solution to this problem. The people who are given positions in office, are limited in their ability to help. So what does that mean? All these people in this state and in every other state, who are at risk or high risk of losing their home have no where to turn for help? No where????? So they end up on the street or their mother's couch indefinitely. This is not okay and I really want to do something to change this reality. People WANT to help themselves, sometimes they just need a hand up to buy them that little extra bit of time to get their lives in order.
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