Is your work an expression of yourself? Or maybe even an expression of being, if you want to take it a step further?

You may be wondering what exactly this question means, or you may be naturally drawn to it.

I’ve just had several conversations this week where the question of work, purpose, clients has come up. And as soon as this discussion comes up, the mind or the ego, certainly the thoughts, immediately come into play and basically interfere with the whole thing.

So you hear a conversation going on in your head that is more like ‘I need to achieve this, my goal is this, I have a great salary, I can pay my bills, I know how to get my clients to achieve their goals’ and so on.

But that doesn’t get to the heart of it. What is it that you represent at your core? How does your work reflect that?

Can you be a banker and feel that’s your purpose? What aspect of your work is that purpose?

If you work in an office, have you ever compared yourself to a musician? Literally someone who writes and creates their own music? Or perhaps a poet?

Is your own work anything like poetry?

Try to stay open to possible answers.

And forget the why … but see how your work can be a form of art. For yourself, for others.

And don’t fall into the trap of trying to understand the purpose part too deeply.

After all, aren’t things worth doing just for the sake of doing them? Isn’t that already a purpose? To be in the flow?

Maybe that’s just me on a Friday … but I hope you get the drift.

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