Take the Leap

I’ve been repeating myself a lot these past few days, because it seems as though the same conversation keeps coming up with new friends…old friends…

It’s easy for most of us to get stuck in a rut (idiom?? I am bad with American idioms…my dad was…and that’s how I learned’em). At least in LA, the economy is terrible, jobs are hard to find, most are holding on to the jobs they hated two years ago but can’t let go of out of fear. So we accept that things are bad, times are tough, and we have to struggle to get to where we want.  While I agree that it’s not necessarily easily to “follow your bliss…” it shouldn’t be a struggle. This is what I discovered on my two month break after working on a vigorous City Council campaign here in LA.

Dedicating my life for a few months in hope of rebuilding LA with fresh new, intelligent, unadulterated leadership, once it was all over “normal” was different. I couldn’t go back to doing the same old thing anymore, so I didn’t. I took time off to figure things out again, and what I came to after 2 weeks of being anxious of not “doing something,” was a belief that I have come accross in many great writings, or guided to by many of my mentors and spiritual leaders…WHEN YOU ARE FOLLOWING YOUR LIFE PATH, Your Purpose, GOD WORKS IN YOUR FAVOR. (I call Ein Sof God…you might call it the Universe…the Collective Conscious…).

I have now thrown myself into the scary-not-easy-place of accepting that my bliss is my bliss (even if up front it doesn’t seem like a sustainable option…) and now, every day seems like a day off because I love every single thing I am doing, and won’t settle for less. The “scary” and “not easy” doesn’t feel like a struggle, because I am exactly where I want to be.

It takes a courageous leap, that even I at first was not ready to take, because it’s an uncommon one that doesn’t have the structural security of the trajectory our parents followed. But when you take the leap, to stop doing what you hate…working for fear of not having money, or security….GOD blesses you by opening the opportunities and doors meant to help you fulfill your purpose….After all, that is how we are best in use to serve others…when we become full of bliss and joy and can’t help but want to make sure others are also feeling and living the same.

In that concept is where I honor all the people who might not find it easy right now to up and quit a job to “follow your dreams” due to hungry children, sick families, other needs…but again…we can start the ripple effect of bliss by looking into what we dedicate our time and energy to, and deciding whether or not we really are walking down the right path.

Take the leap! You can sleep on my couch if things get really bad….(that was a joke…unless I know you and tell you this in person.)