When I first discovered my life purpose

"Perhaps I forgot that even when one’s path is one of bliss .... even when it starts out with that joyous burst of energy in the spark of an idea and the wide beaming smile of initial reactions to that idea........ it does not inoculate one against the actual work, the rub of the proverbial grinding stone against one’s shoulder! Funny, but that knocks me every time! [Jen’s note: There is that learning edge again! We need a more generative story about what is normal when we are creative, when we are learning, that it is normal to be lost, scared, bored, frustrated and that those experiences are not to be judged as a sign we are doing the wrong thing, not to be pushed away.]

When I first discovered my life’s purpose many years ago, I thought everything difficult and painful (in that part of my life) had been resolved. From that moment of revelation onwards, life would be nothing but smooth and easy. I was so shocked to discover that on the other side of discovering one’s bliss lie all of these challenges and stumbling blocks! I wonder if it’s like this in marriage, too ..... we (who are single) look so long to find that one, true special someone and then everything is supposedly going to taste like sweet marmalade from then on ....... but I have a hunch that it is when we meet our ’true’ match that the learning process really begins ... any blocks we ever had inside to love would come right up and meet us like the blow of a 2x4! ...."

One of the most powerful ideas I’ve ever encountered is that learning isn’t about information. Learning, to paraphrase consultant and author Fred Kofman, is the capacity to accomplish results that you were not able to accomplish before. The capacity to close the gap between your current reality and the reality you would like to produce. The closure of that gap, through the expansions of one’s consciousness, through awareness and choice, through shifting how you see the world, and through taking in new information and applying it in action, is learning. He compares it to riding a bike more than reading a book.

We in the west are not comfortable with learning in this way. Our education system is all about finding answers. Our corporations and government mostly reward people who claim to know, even if that knowing is leading straight into the jaws of disaster. It is better to appear to know than to appear "stupid." Why is not knowing a sign of stupidity? I maintain it is a sign of spiritual brilliance!led dot light source factory--https://www.zjmdcx.com/product/led-dot-light/