Our lives are like an ombre’ wall.
You are going along smoothly and there is just a tiny bit of a change but it’s practically unnoticeable yet it keeps changing just that much again along the way and before you know it, it’s a completely different color.
Or a completely different life.
And if you didn’t change anything else even though your life slowly changed, you might be crazy frustrated.
Does this sound familiar?…
It’s like that with our work too.
Sometimes we just end up with a job. I did.
It’s confusing and weird because these are not the kind of jobs we apply for and we don’t have a 401k and benefits. Often times, we start doing something we love, something that speaks to people or helps people and before we know it, it slowly turns into job.
Maybe you don’t even get paid cash money for your job, but there’s some payoff and it’s worth it to you.
This blog became a job long before I realized it.
But it took realizing it for me to have the confidence to protect it, allow myself to spend the time it deserved and have real conversations with my family about what that meant for us.
Maybe you have a job too.
Maybe you know that, or maybe you’ve yet to admit it or realize it.
This month my sister Emily and our Dad and I have a conversation about The Day We Realized We Had A Job–what that looks like for us, our family and our life rhythm…
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