So RowdyReaders, are you using your life energy both in your professional and personal life to it’s fullest and with care?
Life energy is something we sell for money, to buy shelter, food and more. Your life energy is limited, a non renewable resource. Therefore, it is important to use that energy wisely.
Step 7, in Your Money or Your Life, focuses on “valuing life energy by maximizing compensation for the hours you invest in your work.”
Take some time to think about the value you receive from selling your life energy.
What does work mean to you? It is something we do to make a living and pay the bills? Or something more? The standard definition of work is extremely limiting and “robs us of our life.” The authors pointed out:
“Some of us honor our jobs and neglect the rest of our lives. Others of us endure our jobs and make up for it on the evenings and weekends. In either case we end up with a half life. We are failing to value our life energy. and we feel helpless to make changes.
It is striking to me that so many Americans devote large amounts of time and energy to our jobs, but ignore our mates, children and families. What happened to us? And why are so many of us living “half lives?”
The authors argue that the “key to freedom from the ‘making a dying’ world is valuing your life energy.” This step is packed with a lot of questions and topics to think about — the authors cover the nature of work through history, the daily requirement of work, the purpose of work, redefining work and the implications of redefining work, among a variety of other topics.
Is it possible to break the link between work and wages? To truly discover what true work means to all of us?
What do you think?
For more on this topic:
- Step 6: Step 6: “Living the American Dream on a Shoestring”
- Step 5: Is saving an impossible dream?
- Step 4: “How Much is Enough? The Nature of Fulfillment”
- Step 3: “Where is it all going?”
- Step 2: “Money ain’t what it used to be – and never was”
- Step 1: Your Money or your Life
