When Less is More:

Barry Swartz said:

“Focus on what makes you happy, and do what gives meaning to your life” But herein lies a question or certainly a need for clarification. What is that ‘thing’ we should focus on?
The majority of us in the western world have had reasonably good education and relatively privileged childhoods. These benefits will have stretched us and developed our differing facets. 
In the developing world, the pressure to earn in order to eat would have forced us into the world of work at a young age and we would probably have followed in the footsteps of our parents, or, had we shown a real strength in another direction we might have been lucky enough to have worked doing something we enjoyed doing. The above two things were not necessarily one & the same.

We have a different difficulty now. The choices we have can be too diverse & our skills development can be so advanced and widely spread that we do not know how and where it us best to apply them.
We seek the answers outside of ourselves: we see advisers and question our tutors, we read our patents hopes for us and are imbued with societies expectations of us and then we are pulled in a multitude of differing directions.
But have you ever really made the space to ask yourself what it is you want? Free from judgement and external agendas? Have you learned to heed the small voices that visit you to guide you in the quiet moments? Do you know what it feels like to be aligned in your purpose and your core values and to know in your body, mind & soul that you are doing the right thing?
When we focus primarily in this one rightful direction, less is certainly, inevitably, unstoppably more.

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