What would you do with your days?

[riderinthestorm]

32. I went to see a lecture by Wayne Dyer. He's one of the oldies in the "new age" movement

I saw him a couple of decades ago when I was in that phase.... Anyway, I digress.

He starts out his spiel with how he came to be writing books....

He was initially a high school teacher - waaaaayyyyy too much work even though he liked the summers and holidays off.

So he got his masters and became a community college teacher. Still okay but still waaaayyyy too much work.

So he got his PhD and taught at the university level. Same thing. Too much work!

So he quit his teaching gigs and it forced him to begin writing a couple of decades after trying to make it in his "chosen" career - teaching.

Now of course he LOVES writing! He says that finally giving up the ghost on a "career", enabled him to spend his days staring at the sea contemplating LIFE, and writing about that.

Voila! Happiness and success combined.




(of course that was the gist of the entire lecture series - follow your heart's desire and it will lead you to happiness which we all know doesn't always work out that way. But it was a GREAT series. Dr. Bernie Siegel was one of the highlights too, as well as Marianne Williamson).