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Ok, two more points. One from my own history. I used to work at disneyland. My job was collecting statistics from guests. I had to walk around and do surveys. It was cool because I had an excuse to go up to any pretty girl or group of girls and talk to them and ask them all kinds of personal questions. I had a quota of surveys I had to do per hour. What motivated me (after talking to all the cuties) was that the harder I worked, the quicker I worked, the quicker I got my hourly quota finished, the longer breaks I got every hour. Sitting and reading the paper and watching tv. I was motivated by laziness to become a superhard worker. One quota we had was we had to collect about 20 emails in 2 hours. If I could collect them in 20 minutes, I could relax for 90. So if your job is results oriented, work like a maniac to get good results and then.... (point #2 coming)... Quote:
.. Or the luxury that if I want to stay in some city overnight on a Hotel, I can do that for free. And drive wherever I want for free in the car, just as long it's inside the country.
FIGHT CLUB!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agi8PUmlAKU
The only drawback is, you can't post anything here about fight club, because the number one rule of fight club is....
Seriously dude, sounds you got a really sweet deal. Just suck it up, do the work, get the results, and used your free time and your free car and your free meals and your free hotels to chase after your passions.
Ok, one more idea, then I'll shut up.
Do a timeline meditation. sit down, get quiet, float up over your timeline and go into the future and talk to your future self..
your future self lying on your future death bed breathing your future last breaths...and ask your future about-to-be-dead self the questions:
What should I do? What do you wish you had done that you didn't? If you could go back and live your life again, what would you do differently?
George
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Right at the moment I really miss an inner sparkle or wonderful driving force feeling for my work and to get working. I got this super job (earning 100.000 US$/year), free car and gas, all food and expenses paid by the company, don't have any boss who is saying "You should work from 8-16, then you can go home" etc.. The work is entirely up to me. It's a job as a technical manager, where the job mostly working and answering emails, but also selling equipment with a very technical knowledge. But the thing is that it's mostly at one big specific costumer, and there is really not much selling. Mostly only working with science knowledge and problems and administrative work. I think it's sometimes fun working with it, when I get in to the "zone". But I don't feel a drive for the work in general....
I was wondering is there a way to increase the driving force for a work, so you just jump out of bed each morning and feel that you really would like to work. You just can't wait to get up in the morning and start working? Right now I feel a little lazy, often sleep long because I just don't feel that drive to work. When I think of working I get a feeling of "damn, not now.. don't want to do that now". But when I start working, I often start liking it..
Of course there is the action :You can just start searching for another job.. Find the job that fits you. But that option I don't want. I think it will be the same in other kind of jobs like this one...I want to increase the driving feeling for this work. Another reason is that it has so many real good benefits compared to other kinda jobs etc..
Need some help and suggestions. Both to what generally can be done, and also on using paraliminals for that issue...
Thankyou..
Murof.
Revisiting this topic this morning with a few more ideas. (Wish Alex were here, she always has terrific thoughts on these things!)
Yesterday I sort of found myself in a kind of "funk", or as I sometimes put it, "with a bad case of the idon'wannas". Didn't much matter what, I didn't wanna do it. So I pulled out my UY library, and remembered a gem I haven't used in awhile: "Youthful Vitality" choosing as my special focus the attribute of "enthusiasm." I like that particular CD a lot, and it always puts me in a good state of mind. It worked wonders for me on several occasions, including yesterday.
Another thought I had was "Instantaneous Personal Magnetism." This one is very powerful, not just for PM, but for modeling yourself after someone with traits you'd like to have.
In your case, I'd suggest finding someone you know, or know OF, who simply adores their work and considers it the high point of their day. In my personal life, I know a nurse who is like that: her "work" is her joy, and always has been.
I've broken through some serious writers' blocks at times using this one alone, just by using a writer who (a) loves their work and (b) writes a lot of quality material.
Anyway, just a couple more thoughts to throw out there.
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Jeanne, I emailed you about something... take care.... scoots~* 
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