What Do You Wish To Enjoy

Wishcasting Wednesday with Jamie Ridler Studios:
What Do You Wish To Enjoy?

Today I am here, but not. Oh sure, my physical body may be right where its expected to be, but my soul is in a completely different place. While my body is feverishly working on an extremely frustrating project at work and trying to multitask better than the rest of them, my soul is safe and calm and content somewhere else. Perhaps a coffee shop. Or maybe a book store. Wherever my soul has wandered, it's delighting in the research of a new feature story idea, tenderly holding a newly created journal, rapidly sketching out the bones of a new workshop curriculum, blissfully reading a book...it's doing something that speaks to my talents, my creativity, my gifts and my uniqueness.

And it's in that division, the floating in between the thing that no longer fits the way it once did and the anticipation in arriving at the thing I cannot wait to do, that keeps me moving forward. It's there that I find the motivation to move closer to the day when I can finally and truly say, "I enjoy my work."

And on that day, I'll enjoy my work not because it provides a six-figure salary, or allows me to sign my name with a string of letters and abbreviations after it, or lands me a corner office with a window or is what others have said they always thought I'd be.

No, on that day I will say,
"I enjoy my work because it is a reflection of my soul."