Comments on: Making Peace with Your Purpose http://www.mildlycreative.com/2009/09/making-peace-with-purpose/ Life, Art, and Other Unfinished Work Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:38:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Ken http://www.mildlycreative.com/2009/09/making-peace-with-purpose/comment-page-1/#comment-1299 Ken Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:48:50 +0000 http://www.mildlycreative.com/?p=1625#comment-1299 Don't you just love paradoxes like that? Don’t you just love paradoxes like that?

]]> By: Ken http://www.mildlycreative.com/2009/09/making-peace-with-purpose/comment-page-1/#comment-1298 Ken Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:48:28 +0000 http://www.mildlycreative.com/?p=1625#comment-1298 That's a good tune to have inside your head. That’s a good tune to have inside your head.

]]> By: Beth http://www.mildlycreative.com/2009/09/making-peace-with-purpose/comment-page-1/#comment-1293 Beth Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:07:05 +0000 http://www.mildlycreative.com/?p=1625#comment-1293 Being the person you really are- nice. This kind of sings to me now. Being the person you really are- nice. This kind of sings to me now.

]]> By: Grace http://www.mildlycreative.com/2009/09/making-peace-with-purpose/comment-page-1/#comment-1292 Grace Fri, 02 Oct 2009 03:11:40 +0000 http://www.mildlycreative.com/?p=1625#comment-1292 Oh, yeah. Resistance to purpose - we all spend so much time there. I sure have. And about three-four weeks ago I started surrendering. Rewrote my website. Hangin' out in the paradoxical state of resistance/surrender. Feeling the total weirdness of <em>I can't go there</em> and <em>holy wow, this is so cool, I love where I'm going.</em> Yep! Oh, yeah. Resistance to purpose – we all spend so much time there.

I sure have. And about three-four weeks ago I started surrendering. Rewrote my website. Hangin’ out in the paradoxical state of resistance/surrender. Feeling the total weirdness of I can’t go there and holy wow, this is so cool, I love where I’m going.

Yep!

]]> By: Joanna Maxwell http://www.mildlycreative.com/2009/09/making-peace-with-purpose/comment-page-1/#comment-1287 Joanna Maxwell Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:52:21 +0000 http://www.mildlycreative.com/?p=1625#comment-1287 Brilliant insight, much appreciated! It really does come down to trusting 'what makes you tick' and finding a way to make a living from it, as you say. Joanna http://workincolour.com.au Brilliant insight, much appreciated! It really does come down to trusting ‘what makes you tick’ and finding a way to make a living from it, as you say.

Joanna
http://workincolour.com.au

]]> By: Ken http://www.mildlycreative.com/2009/09/making-peace-with-purpose/comment-page-1/#comment-1286 Ken Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:11:16 +0000 http://www.mildlycreative.com/?p=1625#comment-1286 Keep on teaching, Coach J. Keep on teaching, Coach J.

]]> By: Ken http://www.mildlycreative.com/2009/09/making-peace-with-purpose/comment-page-1/#comment-1285 Ken Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:10:58 +0000 http://www.mildlycreative.com/?p=1625#comment-1285 And you can get on with it in peace and quiet. Shhhhh. And you can get on with it in peace and quiet. Shhhhh.

]]> By: Ken http://www.mildlycreative.com/2009/09/making-peace-with-purpose/comment-page-1/#comment-1284 Ken Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:10:10 +0000 http://www.mildlycreative.com/?p=1625#comment-1284 That's why I wrote it. I needed to hear it too. That’s why I wrote it. I needed to hear it too.

]]> By: Coach J http://www.mildlycreative.com/2009/09/making-peace-with-purpose/comment-page-1/#comment-1277 Coach J Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:42:23 +0000 http://www.mildlycreative.com/?p=1625#comment-1277 I feel ya, dude. I fought my purpose tooth and nail when I was in college. Every sign, every aptitude test, every fiber of my being screamed "You're a teacher!" But there was no way I was going to be a teacher. My parents were teachers, for goodness sake. But here I am, teaching for a living, and I can't imagine doing anything else. Thanks for the post. I feel ya, dude. I fought my purpose tooth and nail when I was in college. Every sign, every aptitude test, every fiber of my being screamed “You’re a teacher!” But there was no way I was going to be a teacher. My parents were teachers, for goodness sake.

But here I am, teaching for a living, and I can’t imagine doing anything else. Thanks for the post.

]]> By: Ken http://www.mildlycreative.com/2009/09/making-peace-with-purpose/comment-page-1/#comment-1271 Ken Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:26:34 +0000 http://www.mildlycreative.com/?p=1625#comment-1271 Thoughts? I have a few, but I don't know what they're worth. I think the biggest mistake you can make is to wait for a sure thing. You do what you have to do to pay the bills and do what you have to do to live out your purpose. If the two come together, that's great. If they don't, you manage. You really have no other choice. Thoughts? I have a few, but I don’t know what they’re worth.

I think the biggest mistake you can make is to wait for a sure thing.

You do what you have to do to pay the bills and do what you have to do to live out your purpose. If the two come together, that’s great. If they don’t, you manage. You really have no other choice.

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