How can you change your experience of life and work from just doing to fully being and therefore create for yourself more feelings of satisfaction and even happiness ?
By making sure that you spend a good portion of your time absorbed and engaged in doing what you have a reasonable talent for. According to Daniel Goleman and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi this type of activity can often elicit a state of flow. It also needs to be something that is important to you so you are committed and attached to the outcome of your actions.
Here are four questions to help you evaluate what you do each day.
Answer Yes or No to each of the questions.
- Are you doing something that you're good at?
- Is it something that totally engages you in a state of absolute flow?
- Is it something that is in alignment with your deepest values, ideas and beliefs?
- Are you attached to the outcome of what you're doing?
If you answered Yes to at least three of the questions then you are probably a human 'being' more than just a human 'doing'.
If you answered Yes to just two questions then, like old Blue Eyes, you're in the DO BE DO BE DO mode.
Three or more Nos mean you may be in a human 'doing' mode. In which case - What small, achievable changes could you make today to shift from doing to being?
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