Find Your ‘Flow’ and Live It!

For many of us, work takes up a significant chunk of time in our lives. If we don’t intensely enjoy what we do and find a state of ‘flow’ – a mental state where you are challenged, engaged and thoroughly excited by something – at all, we may find ourselves resenting our work and feeling disengaged and even depressed for a significant amount of time in our lives. At LLUMI, we have worked with many people who have now successfully released themselves from the rut or treadmill of a job that does very little for them emotionally. They now work for themselves, doing what they love but for a fraction of the time that they used to spend working for others. The key step is to first identify what brings ‘flow’ to your life – is it playing or listening to music? Is it a certain sport? Is it cooking? Is it socialising? These areas sound like leisure activities, however there are enormous industries that surround each one and your skills and talents would be a unique and necessary contribution to that field. Essentially, if we deny ourselves and the world of our time in a ‘flow’ state, we risk robbing ourselves and others of critical discoveries, personal enlightenment and a sense of satisfaction that is missing in too many people. Yes, it is scary to exit a situation in which you get a set pay-check and you know the job well. Isn’t it scarier to know that you will only make that amount of money in your life, you will not experience change and you will feel that sense of dissatisfaction for much longer than necessary? Not one of our clients has regretted their change. Yes, they were scared to take the leap and to start building their own companies, but none of them experienced the grand failure that they feared. So, what have you got to lose? Apply for a new role – see what happens. Set up a Facebook page offering your flow service – see if it motivates you to get started on more tasks. Talk to that person that you know in the industry that you are interested in, see if you can get involved or volunteer for a day. The opportunities are out there and they don’t require you to drop everything right now – tentative and careful steps are possible and preferable, and they can lead to great things.