An unusual way to get off the hamster wheel

Carol here, your Green Goddess.

Today we will address your mission and your purpose, and how does that tie into your productivity?

It’s a great question. I got a response from last week’s video from, I’ll call him a top fan, and he wanted to articulate the lesson from last week in a five-part poster. So I’m going to include that five part poster as part of this article and post. Before I do that, I want to share some thoughts with you around productivity and purpose, getting things done, getting the right things done, because no matter how good you feel you are at this, there’s always a higher place to get to some background.

Watch this week’s video, or read on!

It’s been about three years, almost, (in January) since I created the Productivity Success Cake. So what? Who cares what kind of a cake I made? It has nothing to do with me. Does it? No, it doesn’t. Thank you. The point here is that the Cake itself is a wonderful tool AND what it sits on is critically important. And here’s what I mean, our Cake, our Productivity Success Cake must sit on a firm and solid foundation, which is the DISCERNMENT part of the Success Path that I hope you will be on. Here’s what I mean.  When we discern our deep soul purpose, every part of the Cake is easier to bake. Every part of our life, our work, our home, our productivity, our relationships, our health, everything just becomes that much easier. So do not skip the discernment portion. Do not skip the part about your mission. This fan said voicing our own mission and dreams inspires others to do the same. I would love for you to comment by hitting “reply.”

What is your mission?

What are your dreams?

They’re very important. As I said, in 2020, I created that Productivity Success Cake. And in 2021, after running that group coaching course for a few times, I realized we needed to do something else because the Productivity Success cake misses that piece. The CAKE is the DISCOVER. That’s where you discover those tools- and you discover the ways to be productive. Prior to that, you have to be so clear and that’s DISCERNMENT.

I want to dive deeper into the discernment part right now, because A PITFALL FOR PEOPLE IS that discernment is something that people skip over. That is the biggest mistake that you can do. So, when you don’t truly know what you’re doing, like not just “oh yeah, yeah, I like my job, you know, I like my job. I like the thing I’m doing. It’s, you know, it’s good. I’ll just go right to the productivity.” Don’t make that mistake because you want to be so clear on it. Now maybe you’re just “oh yeah, no, I like, I like it. I’m good”. Maybe that’s you, AND….maybe there’s another you that says “well, you know what, I’m doing this work, I’m doing this job because I knew I was good at it”.

More than one engineer or software developer that I have worked with (it’s not only engineers by the way), but many engineers also that I’ve worked with say “I’m doing this because I was really good at math and science when I was in school” and it’s actually not their passion now. That’s not always true. Sometimes it is their passion and that’s great.  But when it is not their passion, or if you are doing something that, you’re spending a lot of time and it’s just not your passion, pay attention here because  this is a hot tip.

Make sure that you’re doing enough of the other stuff. What other stuff? The stuff that is your passion, so that you can go ahead and make your living. And in fact, feel fulfilled at the same time. That’s a possibility. But let us just say that maybe you don’t even know what that passion is -but you’re feeling unfulfilled, right? What this is, is misalignment because it’s not coming from your heart space and because it’s draining you, what’s happening is you’re not able now to see or feel into what might be in your heart space. And if we’re not able to see or feel into what might be in our heart space, then what happens is we lose ourselves bit by bit.

And then we wonder why we’re unproductive.

We wonder why we procrastinate.

We wonder why we can’t manage our time.

We wonder why we can’t wake up in the morning.

It’s because we don’t have enough of ourselves, and we haven’t allowed ourselves to say “yes” to ourselves.

So, at the end of the day, what it’s all about – it’s saying “yes” to ourselves so that we can then give of the overflow. Sometimes that yes to ourselves means that the work we do fills our cup. That would be true for me. However, it does not have to, please don’t misunderstand me. You’ll probably get along just fine for a while. But think about it in terms of say, you’ve been sitting wrong, or you’ve been standing wrong, or you’ve been at your desk wrong, for a long period of time. Well, there comes a time in our body’s life that it says, you could get away with that, like in your twenties or thirties, but then somewhere along the line, most of the time in your forties, the body’s says, “time out, time out!”

You cannot do this anymore. You’re going to have some back problems – that happened to me by the way. It’s probably happened to you too, or it just might. So in that case, you go to the chiropractor, at least I did. And that was quite helpful. That chiropractor helped me line up my body. And in fact, I still go, I don’t go as much as I used to go, but I need to stay lined up because I want to do the things I want to do. Well, I am the chiropractor. I, Coach Carol, am the chiropractor for your life and business. I want you to have an aligned heart and soul so that every day you spread your sunshine and are able to give your mission.

If that is not possible for you right now, again, do not feel bad, do not feel “Oh my gosh, I’ve got to give up my livelihood”.  No, no. Just make sure that you’re giving yourself enough of that what you need from your heart space.

I will leave you with this – listen to that heart space.  I’ll give you the five steps for the poster.  

  1. Follow your dreams.
  2. Never give up
  3. Release the timeline
  4. Know what you want and why, and
  5. Make sure that when you want something, it isn’t an “ego” want. It’s a “voice within” want.