Work harder on yourself than you do your job.  If you work hard at your job you can make a living.  If you work hard on yourself you can make a fortune.  I love this one because it speaks directly to the core of what we need to change.  We’ve lived for millennia trying to secure a living doing things that make other people rich.  We’ve lived by standards that were designed to keep classes in effect for the illusion of power over others.  We thought it worked until we realized the extent of the damage that causes.  We are told working gives us purpose but that is a lie.  Working on our purpose is what creates value in our lives.  We no longer live in an age where sacrifice is truly required by anyone, we just like to think that others have to suffer for our gain or that we need to fight each other for resources.  Both are false.  When we take the time to work on and with our inner path and find our purpose, all that external crap falls away and we find our needs are very different than what we were told.  We question things like why we would devote our lives to someone else’s dreams.

That isn’t to say that dreams don’t align with other people and we can’t come together to focus on that cause, but the system we have in place where we work the majority of the time to make others rich is no longer enough for any of us.  We realize it’s wrong and we also realize that this pie we’ve been told has a limited number of pieces is much larger than we thought.  Or damn, that we can even bake our own pie if we need to.  We still operate from a position of lack when there was a time of limited opportunity.  In today’s age, things are limitless.  We don’t need to sacrifice our time and energy for the sake of someone else any longer.  We can change how we operate.  So.  When we take the time to connect with who we are and learn our path, when we decide to devote ourselves to that path, when we realize that our gift is meant to be shared with others, that is when we realize that the inward focus benefits not only us, but others as well.  We were told to have a singular focus and the job would take care of us but that is not the case.  We were told focusing on our goals and desires (those outside of what society prescribed) was selfish.  That is also false.  All of it is false.

See, the point of working on ourselves isn’t to be indulgent or selfish.  It’s to learn who we are and to share that.  Why do we feel the need to share anything of who we are with the world?  Well, there are some people who simply like the attention but I’m not talking about that.  But there are people whose experience resonates on a different level with others.  They aren’t seen simply because they want to be seen, rather they are seen because they have some common ground that people resonate with.  We are meant to give each other hope.  We are meant to inspire creation in each other.  Working on those skills matters.  Jobs come and go, desires come and go, but our purpose remains constant.  The point of a job is survival, the point of purpose is to thrive.  We can have multiple purposes in life, that is true, but overall, we are meant to spend our time connecting with each other rather than having power over each other.  Master who we are and the rest falls into place.