Joyful shifts

Are there activities that you used to look forward to doing but now you don’t look forward to?

One example is work. At 16, I was excited to get a job as long as it paid; it didn’t matter what I did, where it was, or who it was with. I was excited to work. Today it seems that in regards to work, I must satisfy the gods of  of following your passions and finding your why and purpose. Why is this? I was happier to go to work when I wasn’t following my passions, didn’t know my why, and had zero connection to my purpose.

 At 16, I worked in a steel mill; I swept a floor and put hooks on square pieces of steel to hang from a line to get painted. Every Friday, I received a paycheck, went to the bank and the mall, and went out with friends. All of it, looking back, seemed fun.

 It could be because I was only doing one task at a time. In my early jobs, my focus was on completing the jobs. The focus on why, passions and purpose is a distraction. It may be too much of a burden to work at finding those three all the time and then dealing with the discouragement of not having them. Instead, I should show up, do my tasks, and receive my direct deposit. There is nothing wrong with that; maybe if that was the first focus, then the why, passions, and purpose would follow in second place.