Purpose in Life
I love to be inspired by others. to see, read, experience something that they contribute to our crazy life and world. I am continuously inspired and inpressed by Chris Guillebeau and his blog, his travels, and his take on how to live your life anyway that you want, with non-conformity and unconventionality and passion. To be authentic. I have always stuck by these ideas, knowing that I can make my life what I want and need it to be. At the same time, trying to serve a purpose and bring happiness and joy to those around me.
My dance world has fulfilled this. I love my dance, and I love to teach, to share this profoundness with others, and to help them make their lives full of meaning, passion, friendship, art, and love.
Chris’s two big questions:
1. What do you want out of life?
2. What can you offer that noone else can?
Fellow bloggers, please link to the manifesto here at this page:
http://chrisguillebeau.com/3×5/a-brief-guide-to-world-domination
A Few Things You’ll Learn in the Report
- The Two Most Important Questions in the Universe
- Why Ruling and Changing the World are Interrelated
- The Clear Alternative to Being Unremarkably Average
- True Stories from Zen Habits, Kiva, Randy Pausch, and more
- The Most Important Work We Can Do
- Life Lessons from My Singapore Airlines flight to Tokyo
June 23rd, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Paulette – THANK YOU for sharing Chris’ blog/manifesto! What perfect timing, I really needed this in my life right now! I am grateful!
June 23rd, 2009 at 3:39 pm
Good on you Tracy!
Share your answers for those two questions if you can!
June 25th, 2009 at 6:36 am
thank you for sharing, btw i am trying to set up so i can follow your blog but it appears its not set up with a feed.
June 25th, 2009 at 7:41 am
Hey Dina,
there is an RSS feed in the top left corner, is that not working for you?
Let me know…
June 26th, 2009 at 4:59 pm
Hi again Paulette!
Okay, I got serious, I sat with those two questions, and then I took you seriously, I’m sharing them! Thank you again for the inspiration!
What do you really want to get out of life?
~choose at each moment, what I am going to do or be (it is no one else’s choice but mine)
~dance in sisterhood
~a relationship with a certain patch of Earth, interwoven with a web of family and friends
~grounded, and able to fly
~life enriching experiences, at home and abroad
~make beautiful things, make things beautiful
~no regrets
What can you offer the world that no one else can?
~my life as an example of living life outside the box
~belly dance – giving women permission to do something for themselves, having fun, and trying something different
~encouraging others to find what they are here in this life to create (be it one big thing, or several small) and how they can give to others through their creation
~doing all of that beautifully
~combining all of the above into my own unique way and offering it up to the world!
And now, the next step, checking in on every single area of my life to see how these two above questions are being answered, or not. Yikes. Big committment, but I’m worth it.
June 26th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
i am still marinating with these questions..but i must thank you for introducing me to chris. he has turned over some new and old leaves in my thoughts and actions.
June 26th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
Tracy,
That is fantastic! thought provoking too…I am honored that you shared that with me and all of us here… and checking in is so important. And you are SO worth it!
big hugs to you, and I want updates!
Dina,
marinate as long as you need, and come out dripping and juicy with ideas, gal! and you are sooo welcome, chris is fabulous, yes?
June 27th, 2009 at 6:26 am
yes he really is, i read the second manifesto about blogging and writing and i have really come to realize i have been writing random stuff without humor as an avoidance mechanism. so i am really rethinking some things.