Thank you for our lives together. Help us and guide us to know where to go from here. How shall we live? How shall we heal ourselves? How shall we provide for ourselves and our family? These are important questions and we ask for your guidance and support in figuring this out. Amen!
MDDL:
Your MEQ today was holding my hand in the restaurant. As I told you tonight, I love being with you. I find your presence both comforting and refreshing.
This is a question I have been struggling with recently. I am dissatisfied and burned out working in IT. I am very, very good at it, can do it in my sleep, and make an awful lot of money doing it. But it does not jazz me anymore. It does not give me a reason to wake up and feel like going to work. I just do it to provide an income, nothing more. My passion is waned. I have no fire in that area of my life anymore.
What I would love to do is to establish a business helping people in the area of their health. I have been investigating what others have done in this regard. The four big figures are Pritikin, Ornish, McDougall, and Fuhrman. Looking at their web sites they have the following models:
- A web site driving revenue by providing people a way to log in and access a community, get questions answered and so forth. The investment to do this is very low. Fuhrman has this approach. His web site is worse than I could do easily.
- A residential approach. Ornish does this, as well as Pritikin. They have a facility where people come and get their health and diet under control. This is like a health spa / resort. The investment to do this is very high and the big name is what drives this.
- A school. Various folks do this. It can be either online or live.
- Write a book. That's what T. Colin Campbell did with The China Study. You need to be pretty well versed and credible to do that.
My general idea is to help people with their health. I do not have much more than that. I am exploring at this point. I don't have more specifics.
I just know that this is what I would love to do for the rest of my life, given a choice. I know we need to make a living though.
How I feel about my answer is complicated. Right now I am fasting and I feel that my emotions are very pronounced during that period. (As well as mental clarity, sensations, and so forth.) It is kind of like being high on marijuana. Remember how that felt? Music seemed to sound better, food tasted better, etc.? I am like that now. I can feel every hair on my body. My mind ticks by like a clock. And my emotions are very clear and pronounced.
So I feel a sense of dissatisfaction and boredom with IT. That's the push. I feel drawn and energized by the idea of getting into wellness and alternative health care. It excites me. I am motivated. That is a strong feeling. Motivation. I guess if I had to choose one feeling as the most powerful it would be that one. I feel motivated.
It is kind of like the feeling I had while working for ATip, my first real IT job. That was in many respects the best working experience I have ever had, all things considered. While ATip was going well, it was incredibly motivating. Addictive even. I loved the creativity of it. I loved working. I enjoyed it so much. I undoubtedly did it way too much, and I know I became a severe workaholic at that point. I would definitely want to moderate that.
Maybe, though, if we did it together, it would be different. I would find that very exciting and motivating as well. I really want to work with you. I am so energized and comforted by you, as I said above in my MEQ.
But it would have to be something you would like to do as well.
Anyway, I have written a lot, so I will post for now.
Love, Me
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