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Creative Writing – Do What You Love to Love What You Do
By Deb Gallardo
Joel Comm posted a video today about doing what you love. Since this is a topic I addressed earlier at The Writing Life – Go With Your Strengths, and since so many people on this planet live lives of quiet desperation because they hate their jobs, this is a lesson we all need to learn and relearn. Even when quitting a day job is out of the question, following our passions is possible as a hobby. If you think you don’t have enough time, just consider taking 30 minutes a day to spend time on an activity that you LOVE. You will find that this brief activity energizes you. Can you afford NOT to take the time to do what you love?
I would go so far as to hypothesize, based on the fact that all matter in the universe vibrates – including the cells in our bodies, our brains, etc. – that someday scientists will discover this (remember you heard it here first, LOL):
Maybe what we were made to do causes our body’s resonance frequency to synchronize with either a universal constant or a frequency unique to ourselves. Or perhaps different parts of our body vibrate at different frequencies and when they’re dissonant, that’s when problems occur.
There is more that we DON’T know about resonance and dissonance and their impact on our state of mind, physical condition, disease-resistance, etc, than we do know. If you are familiar with any scientists who specialize in the effect of various frequencies on human anatomy, send me a link to their work, please.
My theories notwithstanding, if you’ve ever been “in the zone” with any activity, chances are it was something you love doing. Whatever causes that effect, we’d all love to bottle it and have it available at all times. Doing what you love can bring you closer to that blissful state, because it’s what you were created for.
Below is a video from Joel Comm, who addresses this issue and offers suggestions on how to discover what your passions if you’re not sure. Enjoy.
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3 Comments »
April 26th, 2008 at 10:36 am
Powerful post.
I wake up everyday to work on my passions. I have a blessed life.
But reading your post, and watching the video, I got thinking about a few things that are nagging at me and realized that there are issues I can just let go of.
Thanks for the wake up call
April 26th, 2008 at 10:50 am
Warren,
Glad to have helped. It’s funny, when I’m writing articles, I have an “agenda” in mind, if you will, but then I get comments from readers like you who have taken away something that I didn’t even consider, I realize (anew) that there is much more to writing than stringing words together in a good and logical order.
There’s another key element that enters the equation after my writing is done: It’s the totality of a reader’s experience brought to bear on my words.
That’s why some things we read resonate and some don’t. I’m glad I could help you to let go of some issues. Lord knows we ALL need to lighten our load.
I may have to blog about this.
Thanks for taking time to comment.
Deb
May 6th, 2008 at 1:20 am
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