In a time where the economy is unstable, with tried and true companies letting go thousands of employees or shutting down completely, our ideas about security and work are changing, fast.
We're faced with the reality that there is no job that is secure or stable.
And more and more, we are questioning, as a society, "Who am I working for? A boss? A corporation? Someone else's dream of success?" It's time for people who are serious about having any kind of life in this world to get out of wage slavery, to stop being a slave to the agendas of corporate America and runaway consumerism, and instead create a work situation that allows you to breathe, be spacious, and cultivate your soul.
If your work is not leading you toward greater openings of the spirit, then it's doing you a disservice, and you might as well be chopping rocks in a prison yard.
But most people can't see a way out.
They think, "I can't get out of this.
I'm stuck doing this job I hate.
" But you're not stuck.
You can re-vision and rework your life energies and goals, your potentials, and your community; this can all be done.
But it's only possible for someone who really wants to jump off the treadmill, and open to a new path where outcomes are no longer guaranteed.
The three challenges people often face once they decide they do, in fact, want to create work that feeds their soul as well as their bank account are:

1. Believing: A friend of mine who used to teach people how to juggle told me that 60% of learning how to juggle is just believing you can do it.
   Most people don't believe its possible for them support themselves doing something that has meaning, something they feel genuinely inspired to do.
   
2. Wanting Your Cake and Eating It To: If you're really going to walk a path of courage and work in the way you want to do, you might have to earn less money.
   But maybe you don't need half of that retirement fund.
   Maybe having time and freedom is much more valuable than a corporate paycheck and all that other stuff you think you need in order to keep up with the Joneses.
   
3. Redefining Success: Another challenge is letting go of societal and cultural definitions of success and instead come to know that you're already a success.
   

But when you face these challenges with the support of others, when you take yourself through a process that allows you to recognize your true work, your vocation, the path becomes clear.
You begin to see and believe that you can create work that doesn't ask you to sacrifice quietude, inspiration, creativity, meaning, or a poetic heart relationship with life.
You can have work that reflects your true priorities, your inner nature, and is an organic, holistic expression of your life alignment.
You can indeed create the work you love.