“You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.”
―Elizabeth Gilbert
What are you most grateful for that has come to you only through very hard work?
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“You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.”
―Elizabeth Gilbert
What are you most grateful for that has come to you only through very hard work?
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My 1st career not only involved a lot of hard work, but it was not the most healthy job in the world–physically, mentally or emotionally. However, it did pay well. So, when I left it, I was free to take up a career that spoke to my heart without worrying about how well the 2nd career would pay. So, now in my 60’s, I am able to enjoy a job that is not only more fulfilling, but to work only as much as want and for the clients I like to work for. Nowadays, I rarely feel that I am working hard because I enjoy what I’m doing so much.
I know several people of my generation–smart, talented people, who can’t get regular jobs because of agism. Some work low paying jobs with no prospects of retirement. Others have had to take extreme measures, such as sell their homes and move far away where real estate is cheaper, leaving their support network of friends. And/or they take in lodgers.
So I have physical and emotional comfort today that I attained through my former hard work.
My hardest work (or experiences) happened when I decided to join the Peace Corps. At first I was hesitant to consider going to a country where I know that traveling on very dangerous routes in the mountains and along the ocean coast roads made me feel very scared. However, after consideration, I called again and said if you want me, I’d like to go.The human response from headquarters convinced me that I was being given an opportunity I shouldn’t pass up. Spending three months training at Cornell University followed by out bound training in Puerto Rico then followed by 18 months working in the barriadas in the city of Arequipa, Peru, have given me a confidence that would never have been possible for me. It has allowed me to enter into projects with those who need help here in the United States as well as the opportunity to retain my personal relationship with my close Peruvian family friends. My view of needy ones both here and globally changed my life.