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Month |
August |
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Topic |
Work and Career as Spiritual Dance |
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Symbol |
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Number |
8 (Infinity; cosmic consciousness) |
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Season |
Summer |
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Color |
Silver |
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Power |
Will |
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Color |
Silver |
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12 Steps |
8 – Become willing |
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Chakra |
1st – Foundation; 2nd – Creative; 3rd
- Power |
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Sun Signs |
Leo (Creatively express myself and be appreciated by others) into Virgo
(Analyze, discriminate and function efficiently) |
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Questions |
What is my special purpose and contribution in the world? |
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How do I recreate my family at work? |
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What if everyone and everything were here to help me? |
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What wants to happen next? |
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How good can it get? |
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Assignments |
Review/re-create your personal vision statement |
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Identify at least one way to blur the boundaries between work and play
and between work and spiritual practice |
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"Extra Credit" |
Live in the questions. |
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Check in weekly with your buddy. |
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Feng Shui: Work symbols in center of far wall |
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Food: Identify which foods support you in doing your best work |
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Yoga pose: Whichever is the most "work" for you |
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Health: Take action on a work-related stress, strain or examination |
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Handwriting: Close the bottom of your b’s |
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Movies: The Perfect Storm, Central Station, Mother Theresa |
Describe a day in your ideal job. Underline everything in your description
that is happening now. How can you move towards the other aspects you want?
What if everyone were here to help one another? How would that change the way
you approach your work?
When I retire, I want to be able to say that I:
Creating a Personal Vision Statement
Look in these areas of life for hints about your special purpose in the
world:
Your Profession
Your Peers
Your Pain
Your Proclamation
Your Patterns
Your Proclivities
Your Pleasure and Play
How can I blur the boundary between work and play?
How can I blur the boundary between work and spiritual practice?
Books (Available at www.WShows.com)
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From Making a Living to Having a Life |
Gloria Dunn |
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Business at the Speed of Thought |
Bill Gates |
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Callings |
Greg Lavoy |
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Do Less, Have More |
Marcia Weider |
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Life Launch: A Passionate Guide to the Rest of Your LIfe |
Frederic M. Hudson and Pamela D. McLean |
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Orbiting the Giant Hairball |
Gordon MacKenzie |
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Setting Your Genius Free: How to Discover Your Spirit and Calling |
Dick Richards |
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Seven Spiritual Laws of Success |
Depak Chopra |
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Strategic Thinking and the New Science |
Sanders |
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The Corporate Mystic |
Gay Hendricks and Kate Ludeman |
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The Inmates Are Running the Asylum |
Alan Cooper |
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Thanks for Being Such A Pain |
Mark Rosen |
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True Work: The Sacred Dimensions of Earning a Living |
Justine Willis Toms and Michael Toms |
