Crossing the unknown sea : work as a pilgrimage of identity by Whyte David 1955-

Author:Whyte, David, 1955-
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Spirituality - General, Job Satisfaction, Ethics (Specific Aspects), Business & Economics, Business / Economics / Finance, Business/Economics, Work, Personal Growth - Happiness, Business Life - Inspirational, Careers - General, Business & Economics / General, Personality Development, Workplace, Travail
Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books
Published: 2001-10-19T16:00:00+00:00

CROSSING THE UNKNOWN SEA

on. I realized I had nowhere else to go. I gathered my courage the very next morning and began to talk with my colleagues.

Over the next few months, I took the time to make those imaginary conversations real. I spoke with person after person, and slowly, conversation bv conversation, changed my job description in the organization to something more fitting to my temperament. But the success itself told me the game was up for half measures. "Halfway will kill you," I remembered, as my work life slowly began to simplify and come back into focus. As I met with each of my colleagues, I began to see that in an extraordinary way the conversations themselves were doing all the work. It forced me to ask myself the next question: "If this kind of conversation will bring you the work you want lor yourself within an organization, what kind of work do you really want to do in the wider world? What are your elemental waters? What courageous conversations will bring you to your poetrv?" Each of us has an equivalent core in our work, whether it is the path of the artist or the explorations of the engineer. Even if we already possess the work of our dreams, there is a way of doing that work that will deepen and enliven it, a way that begs for a daily disciplined conversation.

A Day-by-Day Conversation

with the Future

I decided on two things: firstly I was going to do at least one thing every day toward my future life as a poet. I calculated that no matter how small a step I took each day, over a year that would

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