This weekend my parents joined my sons and me for an out of town trip. My older son had soccer games Saturday and Sunday for a Premier League featuring interstate competition for the top teams in each state association. The good news was I got to leave behind that danged clutter that I’ve committed to face little by little each day. The strange news is the weekend was so much about winning and losing, and why it ever matters, that it shook up my thinking about growing a small business.
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I’m about halfway through the “Find Your True Calling” study group in the Fast Track Your Dream program. We have reading and exercises to do every week to learn more about our natural gifts, talents, and passions, so I’m getting used to being surprised by some of my own responses. But I wasn’t ready to be so surprised when answering questions from a different source about my creative career change.
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I live in a culture where “living the dream” is one of the top marketing themes, combining greed, sloth, and selfishness in one tale. We see images of people dressed to the nines sipping champagne in limousines, then barely dressed on yachts and beaches showing off toned bodies and well-hidden plastic surgery. Our avatars ride zip lines through rain forests and dive off cliffs into tropical oceans. They eat exotic food served with pyrotechnic displays and dance under the moonlight. They have freedom and adventure and worry-free living, and we think we want to be them. But instead of living the dream, the best I can do is live the metaphor.
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Moving day for the TRAVEL LOG is officially here!
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In April I wrote a post called Having Fun In The Web Design Sandbox. I was getting brave messing around with HTML code, aiming personalized URLs to blogs I had on other sites, and getting a little more control of my SteveCoxsey.com site. This week I’ve been getting dirty all over again!
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Today I rounded a corner on the Twisting Road and came across a wonderful view. I pulled over to get a better look and realized there was space cleared out to the side of the road to park. I got out, looked a long time at the scene before me, and breathed in. As I breathed out, I let go of tension and worry and enjoyed the moment. It was just the right time and place for a scenic turnout.
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Great news! The articles and assignments I was reading for the Finding Your True Calling study group were the wrong ones! The wrong page numbers were sent out by mistake. So all that muckiness wasn’t necessary, and thank goodness I can forget about it. Except I can’t, and I shouldn’t.
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Every week in this blog I try to reflect on what I’ve learned as a solo entrepreneur, whether it’s planning or purpose or new technology. This week I’m still too much in the process of discovery to be able to share much insight or any conclusions. I’ve been spending more time exploring the exercises for the Finding Your True Calling study group. I stirred up a lot of memories and powerful feelings about my past careers. I’m in the mucky process of self-discovery, and I think it’s important to let you know it’s difficult and confusing at times. It’s too raw and too personal and too cluttered to explain yet, but I think it’s leading me to more continuity and to greater clarity with my purpose and vision going forward.

May You Know the Joy of Sharing Your Gifts,

Steve Coxsey

I signed up to participate in a group through the Fast Track Your Dream program. We’re going to be reading through a collection of articles and essays titled Finding Your True Calling. I read through this book several months ago and tried some of the exercises, but not all of them. I skimmed over one in particular, but this week I’ve been focusing on it seriously.
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My day to post this entry will be Labor Day. That’s a day set aside to celebrate the labor movement and workers’ rights. It’s also a day many people see as the official end of summer – at least the more relaxed vacation season. For many it’s the start of the year, since school is back in. It’s back to work time! What a rich irony for those of us who are creating work around our lives instead of fitting our lives in around work.
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