https://sites.google.com/site/lifeworkplanningservices/#TOC-This-article-precisely-captures-the-essence-of-my-definition-of-LifeWork.-

1. 6/21/09 -abc "Pink slips become permission slips"

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1. Golf and tennis player without arms
2. My name is Rose  - inspirational about an 80 year old student
3. Migrant worker becomes brain surgeon - Dr. Alfredo Quinones’ hands used to pick vegetables; now they save lives (MSNBC article)
   
   Hopkins Medicine Home/ Neurology & Neurosurgery/ Brain Tumor/ Our Team/ Dr. Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

Resources for research and reflection

1. "Joy" defined - - one of  Eight (8) primary emotions
   1. Wikipedia - Joy is an emotion of great happiness.
      1. Happiness (Wk) is an emotion (Wk) associated with feelings ranging from contentment and satisfaction to bliss and intense joy. See "... pursuit of happiness" in Declaration of Independence.
         
2. "Joy" and its relationship to enjoy, interests, passions, happiness
3. Quotes about "joy"
4. This statement is attributed Torkom Saraydarian.
   
   Joy, as the energy of love, is the highest vibration on this planet. Everything in the universe is energy; it can be measured and reduced to vibrational frequencies. It’s a universal law that as we think and feel we vibrate, and as we vibrate we attract. When we are in the high joy vibration, we attract what is for our greater good.
   
   The Ancient Egyptians saw Joy as a sacred responsibility. They believed that upon their death, the God Osiris would ask them two questions: "Did you bring Joy?" and "Did you find Joy?" Those who answered ‘yes’ could continue their journey into the afterlife.
   
   For at least the next week or two, ask yourself these two questions each and every day: Did I bring joy? Did I find joy?
   
   "Man loves because he is Love. He seeks Joy, for he is Joy. He thirsts for God for he is composed of God and he cannot exist without Him."
   -- Sathya Sai Baba

   Source(s):

   From Higher Awareness

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When you are in a quiet place and relaxed, close you eyes and think of a time when you were very happy and experienced joy. Write a few sentences about it and then, when you have time, log into your LWPS account, create a new post about it (or revise an existing one), then add the title and a link to the post in the list below. Don't try to do this all at one sitting. You can always return when you think of a new joy and add it to the list.

When you have a few posts written, click on [this link].

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Joys I have experienced in the past

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Joys I am currently experiencing

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Joys I would like to experience in the future.

(Write here about those joys.)

Now review all of the above joys and list the top ten below.

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My top ten (10) joys (in priority sequence)

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Resources for research and reflection

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WHAT'S A VISION BOARD?

A vision board is simply a visual representation or collage of the things that you want to have, be, or do in your life. It consists of a poster or foam board with cut-out pictures, drawings and/or writing on it of the things that you want in your life or the things that you want to become. The purpose of a vision board is to activate the law of attraction to begin to pull things from your external environment that will enable you to realize your dream. By selecting pictures and writing that charges your emotions with feelings of passion, you will begin to manifest those things into your life.

http://johnnyverse.multiply.com/journal/item/360/START_YOUR_VISION_BOARD_FIND_OUT_MORE_

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... Another way to track these old passions is to keep a journal and every once in a while go through the old entries and take note of those things that keep coming back, those wishes and hopes and ideas and projects.

If you don't have a backlog of papers and books documenting your old ideas, then time to delve into your biggest storage closet... your memory. Think back to your favorite activities as a child and take them up again. Write about something you loved to do when you were a teenager or young adult and talk about what it was that got you, your feelings and thoughts while you were engaged in the activity. Or talk with a good friend about the dreams you always had, whether those were sleeping dreams or waking ones. Share your dreams and pay attention to those things that keep coming up.

Here's something that you shouldn't worry about: why those dreams went away. Sometimes we aren't ready to go after them. Sometimes they need more time in your subconscious, or you need more time in the world before the seed of the idea can bloom into life.

The important thing is to find those passions that won't go away, no matter how busy you are or what you have to do to pay the rent or where your actual life has taken you. If they keep coming back, if they won't go away, those are your passions-- those are the contents of your soul. Pay attention to them.

http://warriorgirl.blogspot.com/2008/05/how-to-find-your-passion.html

The National Career Development Association (NCDA) Board defines a job, an occupation, a career, and work here and says (here) that "Work is the foundation in career development, and "... represents the need to do – to achieve - to know that one is needed by others and is important. Work is a major way for individuals to recognize and understand both who they are and why they exist in terms of making contributions to society that bring personal meaning and satisfaction to them. It is when persons regard what they are doing as work that productivity is maximized. Without work, the best a job can provide is economic security benefits -- which may not be enough to motivate the employee to perform in a maximally productive manner. The goal of career development is ensuring that the individual finds work as well as a job."¹

"... The development of a person's career is a lifelong process. ... 'Career development' is the total constellation of psychological, sociological, educational, physical, economic, and chance factors that combine to influence the nature and significance of work in the total lifespan of any given individual"¹.

I define LifeWork is a special kind of "work" that rises out of your dreams. LifeWork elevates "work" to a higher emotional and spiritual plane where you fulfill your dreams or your destiny or what you were meant to be/do, or you find your "voice" or your calling or your soul's code.

We all do some amount of career development (CD), but it is usually when we are in the midst of a major transition. Only a few people consider CD to be a lifewide and lifelong process that is essential for preparing for future transitions. Even fewer want to invest the time and energy to plan and develop their careers so they increase their chances that their day-to-day work matches or exceeds their dreams. I call that focused activity by the few as  LifeWork planning.

LifeWork planning involves a constellation of activities such as personal and career education and personal and career development that helps you smooth out lifework transitions, make a good living and live a good life, and improve your quality of lifework.

LifeWork Planning Services (LWPS) is not a state-based career information delivery system (CIDS), or Career One-Stop, or an assessment resource. However, it  will contain numerous links to them.

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¹ Career Development: A Policy Statement of the National Career Development Association Board (Adopted March 16, 1993; revised 2003) (PDF 6 pages; HTML version).

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I got a Google Alert (GA) yesterday with this post entitled "When work=life and life=work".

In this "About LWPS" post I talk a little about why I use the term "LifeWork" as part of the name of this platform. However, I only touched on the need for lifework balance - as Will referred to in his post.

Will's title is so cryptic and poignant that I wanted it to have its own post here in my blog so I could reread his words - and mine - and to reflect on what is truly important in my life.

I feel exactly the same way about my work on LWPS as Will and Dr Dzoe feel about their work. Wouldn't it be great if everyone on the planet felt the same way about theirs? And that is one of the reasons why I do this work.

However, as Will points out, we cross lines. Is my passion for this work an obsession that is unhealthy? The fact that I am conscious of this concern and asking the question seems to say no, but who really knows.

My wife and I kid about this sometimes - that LWPS is my mistress. But the moment she says that, I stop what I am doing and ask her to talk more about how she feels about this. LWPS is important to me, but Heidi is my life and I don't want to do anything to jeopardize what we have together. Luckily, she tells me that she will let me know when she feels concern.

But what about the rest of my life, my family, friends, neighbors, my health, etc. I must be vigilant. I must think about this often and reflect.

So thanks Will for starting this thread. IT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT!

Update: I just asked Heidi to read WIll's post and my response here, and she agrees that everything is fine.

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It is the full involvement of flow, rather than happiness that makes for excellence in life. p32 Finding Flow; The Psychology Of Engagement With Everyday Life" by Mihaly Csikszenthihalyi

In order to experience flow, it helps to have clear goals - not becuase it is the achieving of the goals that is necessarily important, but because without a goal it is difficult to concentrate and avoid distractions. Ibid, 137

Creativity springs from the deepest places within us - our hearts, our souls, our senses. In fact, creativity expert Mihaly Csikszenthihalyi has called it "the central source of meaning in our lives". So it's not surprising that integrating creativity into our work helps both our clients and ourselves, allowing us to be fully present to dreams, visions, and possibilities. http://www.cd-forums.org/index.php?showtopic=300

http://www.jenovachen.com/flowingames/designfig.htm#_Toc135000005

Finding Flow - The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life by  Mihaly Csikszenthihalyi