My sister Zoonie and I — oh, before I forget, Zoonie was interviewed yesterday by a radio station, and she talked and talked and talked (talking is her forte, haha!) about Talentelle and the Ideal Career workshop, I will upload the interview soon! — co-created the Ideal Career workshop in August 2005.
We’ve been teaching it since then, and have had SO MUCH FUN sharing the knowledge with people (mostly women, lucky me).
Basically, the Ideal Career workshop says that we, as human beings, have four fundamental dimensions of our being, and that by developing those four dimensions, we will inevitably have an AMAZING and FULFILLING career (plus, we’ll make lots of $$$ too!).
These dimensions are: passion, talent, service and values.
What is passion? Well, passion is basically what I feel when I look at pictures of Kirsten Dunst. Oops, sorry, Freudian slip.
Passion is emotional energy expressing itself without interference. Just look at kids at play and you’ll instantly get what I mean by “passion.”
Zoonie is the epitome of passion. She is very, very, very energetic. In fact, without her, Talentelle would not exist, and perhaps my ideal career (as a charismatic and brilliant intellectual) might never have launched. She’s like a rocket of energy, as anyone who has met her will testify.
But you know what? YOU have the same energy. The only difference is that most people RESIST their energy and, for various reasons, BLOCK their energy from flowing forth.
So although everyone has the same energy that Zoonie has, they also have internal resistance. Zoonie has nearly zero resistance, and this explains her joyful spontaneity.
This secret is not easily discernible, but since I’ve always been a gifted student, I was able to observe her and reverse engineer her state of mind. As a result, I’ve learned to reduce my own internal resistance and experience sustained joy as a happy consequence. Now, you also know Zoonie’s secret!
There is much more to talk about regarding joy and emotional intelligence (leading, ultimately, to emotional invincibility of the Jedi variety). We talk more about that in the workshop.
In my next post, I’ll talk about the second axis, my specialty: talent.
