David's Short & Quick Bits Of Advice

1. Get To Know Yourself

• Get To Know Your Heart
• Get To Know Your Mind

2. Feel Deeply

• Feelings Are The Fuel For Actions
• Feel The Ebb and Flow Of The Universe Around You
• Feel The Energy and Intention Radiating From Others
  

3. Never Go Hungry

• Also, Don't Forget To Sleep

4. Get To Know What You Want

• If You Are Not Doing What You Truly Want In Life, Then You Are Bleeding Energy
• When You Are Doing What You Truly Want, You Have Access To Your Full Reservoir Of Energy
• In Fact, You Actually Create More Energy By Doing What You Truly Want

5. Without Contrast You Cannot See

• Travel

6. New Experiences Create New Energy

• Old Food Cannot Sustain Life. New, Fresh Food Sustains Life
  

7. Buy A Comfortable Chair

8. Avoid the Sun

Finding A "Job" - How To Direct Your Life Onto A Path Which Doesn't Lead To Regret-Filled Mediocrity

Four Simple Techniques

1. Seek Out People Who Love What They Do : When you find people who love what they do, learn from them. Maybe they reject you at first. No problem. If you want it, if the knowledge calls to you, be persistent. No one who loves what they do will turn away someone who is as passionate as they for their...whatever. Human beings are designed to share knowledge.
2. Find A Company, Coalition, Group... You Truly Like And Admire : Find a way to work for them. Start at the bottom. Get the education required. Meet them for coffee. Write about them for a newspaper or journal or blog. Shower them with letters, candy, love and affection. Whatever it takes. Love the group. Show them the love. Get in, or Get a lot of energy to find a similar place.
3. Remember Moments In Your Past Which Had "Magic" : And find a way to make them reality. A piece of music moved you profoundly? Learn to play the instrument. Learn to compose. Become a writer on music. In my case, video games and movies move me deeply. I analyze what it is about them which draws me, and it is the adventure, friendship, and the growing.
4. Approach People Who "Look Happy" : It's a good bet that if they look happy it is partially to do with them doing a "job" which they like. I think people who are happy want to help others become happy as well. Maybe the happy looking people can help you get a job at their work, or recommend you to a happy friend. Happy people want to make other people happy.
   

My Thoughts On The Techniques

• I was raised to think that you needed to get a "real" job, a "real" education to get a real job, "real" networking to get to know where the real jobs were, etc, etc, servile drivel.
• I have worked numerous jobs. Empty experiences. I don't connect with the job because I do it to make money, with the hope maybe I'll find...something which will grab me. This is a dead-end if there ever was one. I know it in my bones now. Kind of late at 31, but who cares? Certainly not our competition-driven, commercial-oriented society.
  

People Can Be Wrong, So Make Your Own Path

Other people can be wrong.

Throughout your life other people will advise you on
what you should do,
what you should think,
what you should feel.

Always keep in mind that they can be wrong.

So, what should you do?
Whose advice should you follow?

The age old answer : your heart.
What you "feel" is the right path, is the right path.
Search your feelings.
Search your mind.
Come to an understanding of who you really are inside.

Just remember, other people can be wrong.
If advice, beliefs, ideas don't feel right, then they are not right for you.
Find your own "right".

That is the quest of being an individual.
Finding yourself,
so that you become a strong part of the human whole.

When Logic And Words No Longer Have An Impact, Feelings Can Break Through

There comes a time when people become saturated with logical arguments and clever insights constructed with artfully combined words.

When convincing other people with mere words no longer has any effect.

In these instances, feelings are what can break through.

Showing how one truly feels can break one through to the other side of human inter-understanding.

For let us not forget, human beings are creatures of emotion, animals of emotion, on whom logic was grafted because it enabled greater survival, yet, logic and mind are not what lie at the core of the human being.

That core is : emotions.

Let Your Emotions Be Your Guide

A person's feelings are a direct echo of their relationship with the universe.
When a person's feelings are in chaos, their universe is the same.
When a person's feelings are at peace, so to is their universe.

In today's world, the majority of people are always at war with their feelings,
forcing themselves constantly to do what they don't feel right doing,
convincing themselves that they are happy with forceful coercion of the mind just so they can continue to function,
when in truth, they deny their feelings,
they deny how they truly feel,
they deny what is in their hearts.

Emotions may often guide a person into painful experiences, but better be guided through painful experiences in accord with how one feels, than to be living a lie of a life haunted by the specter of fear.

Feeling Lost As To Your Purpose? Search For Those Few, Special People Who Truly Love To Teach What They Know

The Daedalus Dilemma

If you teach all you know to another person, they might become better at it than you and take away your livelihood.

If you teach someone else well, you may teach them too well and find yourself left in the dust, as they surge to prosperity and you are discarded as yesteryear's model.

The Special Few Who Love What They Do And Love To Share

I think that there are only a few of these people in the world, and it takes a great deal of searching to find them, but, I believe there are people in the world who truly love what they do, and part of their feelings of love are expressed in a truly powerful desire to share their knowledge with others.

The "Real" Working World : The Rat Race

For the majority of people,
"the mass of men leading lives of quiet desperation",
the working world is one of competition,
everyone trying to get a piece of the pie,
everyone terrified of being abandoned and left behind,
teaching someone else is literally "taking food out of your own mouth".

Teaching someone else,
really trying to make another person better,
is something that simply feels like a waste of time.
Where is the profit in it?
How is it helping you?

Again, The Special Few

But...there are a few special people in the world who just don't see things this way.

They have connected with life through their art.
What they do truly fulfills them and they want to share that feeling with others.

One Of The Secrets To A Good Work LIfe : Find And Work For A Company You Believe In

When you work for a company you believe in,
helping them to succeed and carry their mandate forward,
being part of the team which helps them to do their work : work you believe in,
you put more of yourself into the work,
you learn more quickly,
you have more energy,
you have better ideas,
you are simply : happier, more fulfilled, life is worth living.