T1Q: A job or your purpose?
25 Feb 2012 Leave a Comment
in How To Live, Re-posted Tags: Life, Passion, postaweek2012, T1Q, Work
This post was taken from one of the newsletters of T1Q: the one question written by their Resident Life Coach, Ms. Lillian Eve Moore, that I would like to share to everyone.
What should you do if you want a new career but you don’t have the funds for “transitional period.” How do you support yourself while you are waiting for your dream career to take off?
Step 1: Trim down and simplify
Can you make your life less expensive? See what expenses you can cut without compromising your quality of life. You might find that some of the things that you spend the most money on don’t really give you joy.
Step 2: Look for joy and bliss where you are
If you are employed be grateful for that income! Put money aside to give you a cushion. Find ways to bring your talents and passions into your current job – this will improve your current relationships and could lead to promotions or glowing referrals. Look for your dream job on the side or if you are starting your own business start freelancing part time first.
Step 3: Start Small
For any of you looking to start your own business, it is easy to feel like you need a huge investment to start. Actually, it is better to start small because there will inevitably be mistakes and losses at first. Is there a way that you could start your business with zero capital?
Step 4: Tell it like you want it to be
If you are unemployed but you want to be a sailor, introduce yourself as a sailor. The way you think of yourself and speak about yourself is an important part of living your purpose and of being successful in your career. It is self promotion and its free!
xoxo
Lilian
Ask This Question #101
18 Feb 2012 Leave a Comment
in How To Unveil Tags: Life, Passion, People, postaweek2012, Question
Our passion can be unveiled when we answer:
What would you do for free?
FREE because there is a valid and revealing reasons. We may feel and think of the following if we do the task:
- I am very good at it.
- I enjoy doing it – look at the time!
- I feel fulfillment accomplishing it even if I don’t get paid.
- It is not surprising that people around me contact me for it.
- I feel like I matter to the world and I contribute.
- No second thoughts, let me do it.
- I got it, no worries.
So what are you willing to do for FREE?
Seth Godin: Rightsizing your passion
11 Feb 2012 Leave a Comment
in How To Live, Re-posted Tags: Passion, postaweek2012, Seth Godin
Post Source: Seth Godin’s Official Blog Site
Excitement about goals is often diminished by our fear of failure or the drudgery of work.
If you’re short on passion, it might be because your goals are too small or the fear is too big.
Do a job for a long time and achieve what you set out to achieve, and suddenly, the dream job becomes a trudge instead. The job hasn’t changed–your dreams have.
Mostly, though, it’s about our fear. Fear is the dream killer, the silent voice that pushes us to lose our passion in a vain attempt to seek safety.
While you can work hard to dream smaller dreams, I think it’s better to embrace the fear and find bigger goals instead.
Monte Carlo Flare
04 Feb 2012 Leave a Comment
in How To Unveil Tags: Monte Carlo, Movie, postaweek2012
Still clueless on what will make you greet sunshine with zest?
Inspired by the movie Monte Carlo, try traveling!
Going out of the country will give you a perspective you may have missed or you never knew it was there. Go out and explore the other part of the world that you’ve never known. When you do start the experience you make sure that you’re open and let things sink.
♥
In the movie, Selena Gomez played the character of Grace Bennett who is a young lady. She is clueless and desperate to feel different and find what she’s sets to do in life. She thought saving and finally going to Paris would help. Even with doubt she is the kind of person who could conquer Paris, she went for it. The ending of the movie showed she is doing what would give meaning to her life, give her reasons to smile, and feel that she matters in the world.
Marc Jacobs on Work, Success, and the Art World
28 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment
in Wisdom Tags: Fashion, Inspiration, Life, Marc Jacobs, Passion, postaweek2012, Purpose, Retail, Role Model
Marc Jacobs has his own fashion label and he is also Louis Vuitton’s Art Director since 1997.
His words on Life and Work -
I don’t have any separation between life and work so I guess it’s the same thing.
On Success -
I don’t know how to define success.
If I can continue to do what I love then I am successful.
After one of his NY fashion shows -
I didn’t do anything, I just do my job.
He loves designing but he looks highly about one thing in particular… The Art World
I’ve always felt intimidated by the art world.
In the creative hierarchy, the art world is like up here and fashion is down there.
I see the life of these artists sometimes and the way they live and how they travel and I think it is such a beautiful creative existence that seems sort of so pure in some way.
Thank You To Reality TV Shows
21 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment
in How To Share Tags: America's Next Top Model, Britain's Got Talent, Inspiration, Learning, Life, MasterChef Australia, Passion, postaweek2012, Project Runway, Purpose, Reality TV, Television, The Apprentice
Reality TV Shows open up learning for people who need a mean to start to dive in about their passion. I appreciate the existence of different reality television shows that would cater to diverse talents. Let me show some of my favorites:
Do you want to become a fashion designer?
Project Runway (2004) created by Heidi Klum, Desiree Gruber, Jane Cha Cutler, and Harvey Weinstein is a perfect show that showcase from fashion design conceptualization, execution, up to the runway including dressing up and even deciding the look of the contestant’s assigned model.
Top 3 Designers at the latter part of the show will come up with a collection in a real Fashion Show set-up. It’s an amazing show for a fashion designer to be to watch the contestants who like themselves want to make it big in the fashion industry with the skills that they have and harnessing that skill on the course of the show from getting odd challenges and meeting top designers.
Do you want to become a chef?
MasterChef Australia (2009) is an amazing show because the contestants are amateurs and it shows the passionate cook who gets better overtime. The show is very generous of advice (from different ingredients, techniques, and chef secrets), having master classes, and the frequent presence of renowned chefs to share their expertise is totally a cherry on top of a delicious dessert.
I know that it is not the same not being the actual contestant and taste those delicious foods being served but the recipe are made available in the show’s official website so we can recreate it ourselves. The show is very inspiring that there is a way to make a dream come true.
Do you want to become a model?
America’s Next Top Model (2003) created by Tyra Banks was a good show that illustrates what a starting model with or without experience at all could possibly expect in the business. They do photo shoot, video shoot, catwalk, and all the tips and crucial makeovers that works.
Tyra is a beautiful person that guides the ladies with her expertise having started in the business at a young age and have grown to more than just a fashion model but also a role model.
The reality television series is another venue for us to learn about we love to do. I hope you find the right show that would be give you more inspiration or if it doesn’t exist yet I hope a creator would think of it or you could start it and help other people of your line of purpose.
Look at a Railway
14 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment
in How To Live Tags: Inspiration, Life, Passion, People, postaweek2012, Purpose
Beyond ME is ME in a completed puzzle.
A real passionate man who does what he loves recognized his contribution for the bigger picture. Look at a railway, it has rail, bolt, nut, wood, and no matter how small or big a certain part, they work together to keep a train moving and serve the purpose of transporting people or things efficiently.
The beauty of each one’s real gift in real life is not to measure who you are but seeing what you can do when joined with others. Everyone complements so we should find out how we become one with the world.
No looking down upon ourselves. No self pity.
A train can be the real star but it will not run with the absence of the bolt or the nut or the wood or the rail. Same way that a Janitor is important as the company’s Manager.
It reminds me of one old story. A passerby asked a carpenter about what he’s doing, he said, “I’m doing carpentry,” then he asked the mason next who answered the clearest vision that we should aim, he answered, “We’re building a church.”
The Beginning Is Rough And It’s Okay
07 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment
in How To Live Tags: Inspiration, Life, Passion, People, postaweek2012, Purpose, TV Series
You are doing what you truly love only to find out that it’s not easy and why is every single thing stumbling and going to different directions that you didn’t hope it would do.
Stop.
Breathe.
Relax.
It’s okay.
Don’t fret that the smooth beginning doesn’t always happen because if it’s that easy everyone in the world is already living their passion.
It takes patience and truly learn your craft. Keep doing it and you’ll get better. Seek help and learn from the best. Keep doing what your gut is telling you. And never doubt that you’re on your way to greatness.
Photo source: Vida Morkunas.
You are never too old for your dream
09 Dec 2011 5 Comments
in How To Live Tags: Dream, Life, Passion, People, postaweek2011, Purpose
- Photo Source: Jazzreggaefest.com
Our dream is a part of our inner self that is waiting to come out, be recognized, and soar high and mighty. It will never be too late to start. It will never be a question of age. It’s just a matter of our selves committing to let it live.
We’ve heard about the old sayings: “Do what you love and it will never feel like work. Do what you love and you’ll feel lasting happiness and fulfillment.” So why do some of us who knew what we wanted to do still stuck somewhere else?
Come on! Don’t be afraid to START NOW! It is worth it.
Linda Koopersmith, Organizer
25 Nov 2011 6 Comments
in Epitome Tags: Life, Linda Koopersmith, Organizer, Passion, People, postaweek2011, Purpose, Role Model
The passion “Organizer” has a very special place in my heart because I love doing it. I gushed every time I watch Linda Koopersmith on Clean House turning any mess to immaculately organized in tasteful designs. She is one of the pioneers in the business definitely making professional organizer popular and highlighted it as real career for those who got this as a passion.
To cite a successful project, check out what she did to Lindsay Lohan’s walk-in closet, walk-in closet is an understatement, it looked like a shabby boutique.
Do you feel that you also love this path? Read on as she shares what she loves and learn as I did:
- Description. People often comment to me about my passion. I can only describe it as my love of life! It’s something that fulfills me everyday, and it gives me great joy. It’s the only thing I know one can do that at the end of the day you can stand back and say to yourself, “Look what I did!” I’m amazed every time!
- Discovery. I think it started as a very young child. I shared a room with a sister who was 7 years older. We had to learn how to co-exist in a small space. My side was always neat and tidy, her’s not so much! I remember when she left for college within the first day I was dismantling her bed and rearranging the room.
- Conquered Challenges. I think my biggest challenge was the time I had to spend away from my daughter while I was on Clean House from 2003-2005. I spent long hours away from home during those years. It was hard but we somehow managed.
- Feeling for Living. There is nothing I’d rather do in the world than Organize & Design. I feel like the luckiest lady alive! I know it’s a gift to say my work is FUN! I absolutely LOVE IT! I just wish I could be in 50 places at once so I could help more people.
- Greatest Achievements. I’m still working on more, but to date, I’ve created new organizing products that will be available in the Spring 2012. I have a line of velvet jewelry organizers that are currently being sold at The Container Store. I’ve written a book, and I’ve been fortunate to meet and work for some of the most incredible people.
- Sharing. I share it everyday with my crew, and those around me I am organizing & designing for. I’d like nothing more than to expand that to a greater outreach. Currently I am in discussions to create web segments, so people all over the world can tune into see where I am and what magic I’m making one house/office at a time.
She founded the company The Beverly Hills Organizer in 1989 but at first she made it up! Here’s her true inspiring story that is genius because she gave more than organizing solution to businesses while still considering meeting her personal needs:
I needed to find a way to make more money, and in turn allow me to have more time to spend at home since I was a single, pregnant mom.
The idea to organize as a career came to me from my experience as a commercial real estate agent. For 3 years I leased office space, and noticed time and again that IF people were more organized, they would need less square footage, and ultimately save money. Hence the idea of organizing for others was born.
Connect with Linda Koopersmith:
- Visit the Website
- Telephone – 001-310-704-5573
- Follow her on Twitter – @Lindakoopersmit
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