There’s another law besides the Law of Attraction, and it’s called the Law of Least Effort.
The thing that you want to do in life that’s going to bring you the greatest fulfillment and the greatest payoff financially and in terms of impact in the world shouldn’t feel like it’s work.
In Effortless Success Jack Canfield tells the story of Farrah Gray.
He found the secret to success while quite young. At six years old he sold lotion door-to-door, at age 8 he started the Urban Neighborhood Economic Enterprise Club, and at age 12 he had a lucrative speaking career.
But Farrah wanted to learn how to be super successful, so he read Deepak Chopra’s Seven Spiritual Laws of Success. He struggled at first with The Law of Least Effort, which says that the work that will bring the greatest payoff will not feel like work.
"That’s ridiculous. Look at my mother. She’s worked herself half to death all these years," he said. After giving it more thought, he decided to apply the law for himself.
"The two things I love most are food and kids," Farrah said. "Wow! What if I could start a food company, and we created food for kids?"
At age 13 Farrah started Farr-Out Foods. At age 15 he sold it for more than a million dollars.
Jack tells the story, because the reality is that if Farrah can do that think about what you can do with all of the talents and all of the skills and educational background you have.
When you do it in your passion, you do it effortlessly.
So for each of us the real question is what do I love to do?
Pete
Hi Sibylle!
Your quandary sounds as if it might stem from having so many interests and not honing in what you are truly passionate about. The incredible availability of any number of pursuits, hobbies, careers, books, seminars (you name it!) in this day and age makes it is so easy to get fragmented and spread to the point that we no longer know who or what we are, or what truly matters to us.
Jack Canfield has an interesting exercise in which you imagine you have won the lottery. Visualize yourself taking all the trips you want, having your dream home(s), all the fancy cars and gadgets you could ever imagine and anything else that you would want to do or have. … Now, what would you choose to do with the rest of your life? If you really spend some time with this, you will find some definite leanings toward a particular area of interest.
A similar exercise to the one above is imagining that you could be, do and have anything you wanted and could not fail. What would you choose? Ultimately, what we are passionate about seems to be found in those situations in which we are expressing the distinct combination of gifts and talents that make us unique. Since you have such diverse fields of interest, yours may be in a very unique combination of those.
We teach best what we have experienced. What wisdom do you think you have to share? What have you learned on this puzzling path you have been traveling?
Expand around all the possibilities with no judgments or preformed suppositions. We all have the knowledge and wisdom we need inside us, but some of us have done a really good job of burying it. Just keep excavating!
With love,
Wendy
@Sibylle Avery
yes, I know a lot of people who feel/have felt the same. My own feelings are similar although a little different. I have a feeling about my passion, I LOVE to help people grow and develop holistically. However I also have other interests such as languages.
I think that when you have several interests which are more or less at the same level, you should rank them and give them a try (not all at the same time!) and that way through experience you may start to understand these interests better and see what you’re really meant to be doing. This is the way I’m just starting to follow.
Hope this has helped you and others
Have a great day :)
Your ending question expresses my frustration. I have no real passions. I love gardening, music, dance (although the latter has never been developed into a passion). Gardening has been my escape from the stress of the world. I have sung in a choir for many years. I also sense that I would enjoy painting/drawing, but I can never expose these feelings enough in my conscious mind to make it a go.
I like languages and would like to learn another one, but my lack of memory power have made me feel rather limited in that field any more.
Since I wanted to help mankind with my talent for elder care, I failed to branch out, and now I feel like I am stuck.. I am not even close to self realization , have become a recluse and don’t like it anymore.
I had hoped to find out what my real “hurra” could be with the help of your CD on the GENIUS within us. Also the CD on Memory. I would love to know that I can fully remember again,
without bringing up past negative memories.I believe that through the ages I must have had morel talents that at this moment are only latent, but that does not mean that I would not like to further develope the ones I have.
Hopefully so much talk about self does not bore the reader. Has anyone ever felt the same?