This is Day 2 of the 21-Day Journaling Challenge held in Nov 2011. The challenge is now over but you can do the tasks in your own time. Visit the overview page for all the challenge tasks.
Hi everyone – Welcome to Day 2 of 21DJC! :)
Yesterday’s question was an age-old question – “What would you do if you have one million dollars?” Many of you had interesting responses. Some of you wanted to buy a nice, large house. Some of you wanted to use it to invest and grow more money. Some of you wanted to renovate your current home. Some of you wanted to start up a charity / NGO / organization that supports a humanitarian cause of your choice. Some of you wanted to travel around the world. Some of you wanted to give a portion to your family and friends, to enable them in their goals.
Whatever it is that you wrote, know that they represent inner wishes that you’ve been wanting to fulfill, but have yet to do so. Yesterday’s question was actually to draw out these innermost desires and bring them to your awareness.
And the interesting thing is, you don’t have to till you have $1 million before you can fulfill these desires.
What do I mean?
Goals represent your inner desires. One way to satisfy these desires is to achieve the actual goals themselves. However, you can only do that when you have $1 million in your arsenal (since it takes time to manifest). By having a goal that has to be deferred (i.e. you can’t work on your $1 million goals yet because you haven’t achieved $1 million), it’ll only disempower you and prevent you from living in the now.
The more empowering way is to (a) distill to those very desires and (b) find ways to realize them this very moment.
Look at what you wrote for yesterday’s $1 million question. Ask yourself – (a) What desires do these goals represent? (b) How can I realize these desires, right away today?
For example, say one of your $1 million goals is to travel around the world. In reality, you may not be able to travel to any country that you want now because of financial reasons.
However, remember that this isn’t the point. If you look at the desire this goal represents, it possibly reflects a desire to break free and take a breather, due to a prolonged period of not resting. The answer to realizing that then, would be to start taking breaks, even short vacations or just having the weekend off (see Habit #2 of 8 Habits of Highly Effective People). It may reflect a desire to be exposed to new cultures and grow from the multitude of experiences, of which you can already start doing now by getting out there to meet people of other backgrounds.
Another example – Say one of your goals is to allocate $X to your parents, as gratitude for bringing you up. You can already realize that now by sharing $Y every month, where $Y is a smaller amount than $X, adjusted to reflect how much you can spare for this purpose. You can be more generous towards them in your daily life. You can treat them to lunch/dinner/vacations, more so than you’re already doing now. Or if money isn’t a commodity at your disposal, you can do other things like prepare meals for them, write a card, spend more time to them, as acts of gratitude.
And so on and so forth the other $1 million goals.
There’s no need to put life on hold till [X event] happens. That’ll be to put off living. Think about how you can make your desires happen now. This is what it means to live in the now.
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Let’s now move on to the question for Day 2 of 21DJC! ;)
21DJC Day 2
Day’s 2 question is one of my personal favorites:
If You Are To Do Something For Free For the Rest of Your Life, What Would It Be?
Would you sleep and do nothing? Would you pursue a certain passion? What would that passion be? Would you be pursuing a particular craft? What would that be? Would you be traveling around the world? Would you be blogging? What about? Would you want to pursue a humanitarian cause? What would it be? Would you be writing? What about?
Update: Some readers seem to have some confusion over how to interpret the question. Is the question supposed to mean what you would willingly do without receiving money for? Or is it suppose to mean what you would want to do because it does not cost anything?
My answer? The former. If I were to rephrase the question: “What would you want to do for the rest of your life if you are never paid for this work?” In other words, your life passion. Your life purpose. Hope that helps!
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Draw.
It’s curious. The answer to this question came… immediately. Interesting concept too.
I grew up loving to draw. All my papers were littered in doodles, much to my teachers’ dismay. I remember being warned that if I did not stop, I would lose points. So I figured an apple or two, and some rulers, would be alright. I mean, teachers love apples and rulers, right? Neither were my parents too happy about it. They bought me the supplies, but somewhere along the way, it was ingrained in my head that drawing was not a viable future. The ironic thing is that both my parents, brother, and I have faculty, if not interest in drawing and painting.
So I went into computer science for college. I finished it, but barely. I hated it near the end. Now I am looking to get a master’s in interpretation and translation. Now that is something I am interested in, and mostly, I am happy with my decision. I mean, I am pursuing something that truly interests me- but sometimes I wonder, why don’t I ever consider being an artist?
Granted, I work as a graphic artist right now, but I do a lot of web work, and I really do prefer illustration to graphic design. Sometimes, needing to push it out due to clients and time constraints takes the joy out of it. I find myself not loving my projects, just doing the minimal work to please the client. Plus, it’s just a temporary thing.
So maybe that’s why I don’t want to pledge to being an artist. It’s instable. It takes the fun out of it. There are people out there so much better than me.
Still, if ever anyone asked me what would I do for free for the rest of my life, I can say that nothing ever appears in my mind so quick and so strongly.
Will I be able to say “I draw” one day when someone asks me what I do? I don’t know. Would I like to? I think I would.
Continue writing with the freedom i have gained from having one million dollars and not having to be concerned with the mundane necessities of life such as, food-shelter-clothing and taxes.
If I could pursue a particular passion free of cost, I’d pursue the same path I’m about to embark on, but perhaps I’d be a bit bolder without the limitations of money. My desire is to become versed in a range of holistic healing tools. If money were no object, I’d probably focus first on the yoga. Before a healer can help others, she must first heal herself. Next, I’d probably seek teachers in the realms of energetic healing, herbal remedies, and massage therapy. The nature of our relationship to the earth, specifically how we nourish ourselves (food), is my longest standing passion in this whole holistic equation, and really the original interest the led me to the others. So I’d spend some time educating myself more formally on small scale and biodynamic agricultural systems, and then I’d spend days and days, seasons and seasons interning on farms that are growing food with love. And as my knowledge grew, I’d grow more and more into a teaching role, spreading the love to others.
I should take the conditional verbage out of most of these sentences. I fully intend on exploring all of these things- that’s why I’ve been working and saving money for the past year and a half! It would be nice if money were no concern, but perhaps it is better this way, for I’ll have to consider carefully how and where I drop the bucks. I’ll only spend my money and energy where I feel like I can really grow.
The first several comments I looked at don’t seem to be answering the question. Many responses seem to answer the question, If You Are Free To Do Something For the Rest of Your Life, What Would It Be? The answers are along the line of, if I could do whatever I wanted, it would be … or what is something I intend to keep doing for my whole life?
Here is my take on it: If You Are To Do Something For Free For the Rest of Your Life, What Would It Be? I am being asked to choose an activity that I am willing to do FOR FREE– that is, without pay– repeatedly, forever. I am willing to do this thing without ever being paid for it. My inclination is to choose something that requires effort or motivation and is some sort of giving of myself. I cannot say I would sleep for free or smile for free or anything else that no one is ever going to pay me for.
Here is what I would do: I would sing in public for free. I am a good singer, but would have to be a lot better to expect to be paid for it regularly. I occasionally sing “in public” anyway, singing to myself, or just spreading a little joy. Choosing to sing deliberately, for an audience, in a crowd, for a higher purpose, despite butterflies in the stomach and lack of remuneration: I think that is something I could commit to doing, for free, for the rest of my life, if that would serve some purpose.
If You Are To Do Something For Free For the Rest of Your Life, What Would It Be?
My answer would be to help put an end to animal abuse. Whether it involves traveling around the world giving speeches, setting up no-kill shelters or just doing whatever I can in my city to promote more awareness of the cruel treatment of animals who have no voice of their own.
I would have to say that I would mostly definitely set up a music program for those who were interested in exploring playing an instrument, or just listening to and appreciating music of different genres
I often have the longing to start a retreat for broken people who cannot afford to go for expensive help and counselling. I envision a place in nature where there are lots of trees (a forest would be great, but trees would do) and eco-type houses / chalets built that melts into nature. The place should be large and secluded giving people the space to be able to walk around and commune with nature. It may not really be houses, but single rooms with shared bathrooms. A stream running through will be great too. If it could be anywhere near the sea … heaven!
There must be a set routine to every day providing enough time for rest, set times for plain, nutritious meals, times for meditation / reflection, times for counselling and most definitely times for chores. Chores would include working in the vegetable garden or fruit orchards, work in the laundry, work in the kitchen, working on building more eco-friendly housing, etc.
Obviously there must be professional counsellors, doctors, nurses willing to donate some or all of their time for free to the retreat. Those who donate all their time would live on the retreat and eat from the garden.
Security would be essential and that’s why all people coming to a retreat will be assessed first and then placed in whichever section most suited to their needs. Highly depressed, suicidal people should be under 24 hour surveillance I should think and so on up to those people who are just so tired of the day to day bustle that they just need to come to themselves.
I’m thinking keeping quiet or speaking only during meal times or counselling sessions may be a good idea.
Obviously such a retreat would need finances. This is why people coming to the retreat would pay a donation after their stay, suited to their income. What they pay is up to them to decide, if they can afford it. Surely the fruit and vegetables grown at the facility would be blessed and we would sell that at our own farmer’s market if close enough to a town. If not it can be bottled and made into pickles, jams, chutneys, preserves, salads, etc. We may even do real sun-dried fruit and vegetables which would be loved by raw vegans. I think there’s a market for cheaper raw veg produce as home dehydrators are so expensive.
We could also appeal to big business not only for donations, but ask them to mention us in their ad campaign. Something like: “apart from our nutritious products we support retreat XYZ who does the following …”. My mind’s just going here! I don’t have the answers, but I’ll speak to other successful NGO’s and find out how they started and how they generate their funds.
I’m so excited now. I’m wondering if this impossibility is not possible!
I’d consider two routes:
1) Spend 2 years trying many different ways to help the world (social, environmental, economic, spiritual, etc., causes), then go full bore on what’s making the biggest impact.
2) Forget direct charity and just make money in business to give to charities. It sounds soul-less, but think of how much bigger Bill Gates’ impact is because he made money first and then switched to charity.
But to cut to what the question asks directly, I might allocate my time like this:
25% to self, for self-building efforts, to keep me strong, sharp, and healthy
25% to family
50% to serving the world as I believe God wants
Good question.
For the rest of my life, I love photography and I would do it for free.
For the rest of my life, I love to learn by study and experiment for free.
Travel and learn. The world is filled with great culture and customs.
I suffer from wanderlust.
I would travel and learn to live like the natives. To walk the path of ancient Kings and Queens, Pharaohs and great leaders would be incredible.
Let me not get started about the food that I would get to eat while travelling. :) Oh what a wonderful thought!
I would create a balance between excitement-do and quiet-write. I’ve lived and worked in Tokyo for the past five years, and it’s all work-excitement-do, which I’m not complaining about because I require constant stimulation or I get petulant, but increasingly I feel a need for some quiet, an oasis of sorts in which to write and translate the experiences into something more permanent. So, if I could do something for free, I would live in Hawaii for two weeks writing and then switch back to Tokyo for two weeks neon and then back to Hawaii, etc. As above, balance. Having just the one now is driving me crazy, and having just the other would drive me crazy in a different way.
What would I do? For Free? For the rest of my life?
To give of one’s self is a great gift to others, but I could only afford to do what I truly love to do for free were I increasingly wealthy with no need for additional income.
The one thing I think I would do were I able to do something for free for the rest of my life would be to offer a sympathetic ear to anyone who just needed someone to listen. Not offer any solutions, not give any opinions, not tell the person they needed to find a solution; just someone to listen to allow them to vent their emotions prior to going home from a job, going to their in-laws, starting the holiday season, etc. Whatever is on their minds that they just need someone to hear.
So many times when I would get off work I would call my husband and he would try to offer solutions. I did not want for a solution as I new exactly what I needed to do, I just wanted someone to listen to the words coming out of my mouth so that I could hear them and gain a better understanding of what it was that I knew I had to do……I would offer a sympathetic ear.
I will guide, mentor, motivate our youth for their better future life . wherever and whenever possible I will extend my help, cooperation and guidance for redress of misery and grievances of needy people in different areas of their lives. I will guide students of rural and remote areas arranging English and Maths classes for their higher and higher secondary school studies, This alone will t uplift hundreds of students from their present level of living to a better life.- s.arunagiri fpu.trichy@gmail.com
If you are going to do something for free for the rest of your life, what would it be?
I would divide my time doing various things if I didn’t have to go to work daily!
I’d like to spend some time with my grandchildren…perhaps spend a couple of hours per week volunteering at their school, perhaps baking, swimming. Spend time making memories.
I’d like to take some art classes, water color, learn to play the piano, take voice lessons, photography.
I’d like to work on community development programs starting with our Parish…I’m actually working on doing this part…slowly.
• Health, Wellness and nutrition classes
• Parenting classes
• Buy local –from our farmers produce
• Start up crafts program
• Semi Annual crafts fair
• Entrepreneurs program
• Engaging youth activities
• Start a community garden
I’d like to spend some time researching the history of my grandparents.
I’d like to spend time with elders , listening and interviewing them and write their stories.
I’d like to Read books
Attend classes and get my degree.
I’d like to help develop young entrepreneurs and spend sometime mentoring young entrepreneurs.
I would bake the nicest (yet healthy) bread for the poor and needy all around the world, because I love bread so so much I want to share my favourite food with everyone.
I would be a musician everything that relates to music. I would blog about knowledge and information, etc. Learning yoga and martial art, I like the spirit of exercises to achieve body, mind and spirituality and I’ve just start yoga previous month. Volunteer for charities, visit poverty country or helping country in disaster. Art Painting or coloring, I like to enjoy the process, the concentrating and outcome. Design new things and ideas, adopt pets.
This was a tough question to answer, but I think if I was to do something for free for the rest of my life, I would paint for both myself, family and friends. I would make others happy through my art and photography. I would also listen to those who need help or advice, whenever possible.
If there were something I could do for free without having to pay, I would learn how to dance and take yoga lessons. I would also take piano lessons, because while I taught myself to play, I think I would be able to improve so much more through the guidance of a piano teacher.
I would divide my time doing various things if I didn’t have to go to work daily!
I’d like to spend some time with my grandchildren…perhaps spend a couple of hours per week volunteering at their school, perhaps baking, swimming. Spend time making memories.
I’d like to take some art classes, water color, learn to play the piano, take voice lessons, photography.
I’d like to work on community development programs starting with our Parish…I’m actually working on doing this part…slowly.
• Health, Wellness and nutrition classes
• Parenting classes
• Buy local –from our farmers produce
• Start up crafts program
• Semi Annual crafts fair
• Entrepreneurs program
• Engaging youth activities
• Start a community garden
I’d like to spend some time researching the history of my grandparents.
I’d like to spend time with elders , listening and interviewing them and write their stories.
I’d like to Read books
Attend classes and get my degree.
I’d like to help develop young entrepreneurs and spend sometime mentoring young entrepreneurs.
I’m looking to start optometry school the next fall. One of my dreams is to go to a 3rd world country once a year and perform eye exams for the needy. Perhaps I could even set up a small eye care facility in the long run. I truly believe that the eyes are one of the most important parts of ourselves and we often take them for granted. There are plenty of people in this world who are living with minor vision problems that can often be corrected with a simple pair of glasses. I’d like to give these people a chance to see how beautiful the world is without all that blur and give a new meaning to their lives.
Travel and learn, and then share those experiences with as many as I can via the web and other mechanisms.
I’m assuming this question means free of compensation and free of cost — at least that is how I am interpreting it. The true question is: What is your real passion? What is priceless to you?
So, assuming I am independently wealthy and have no need to make money nor spend money, I would travel, around the world, to every continent and every country. Then I would go back and visit my favorites again. I’d start with every state in the United States, then I’d tackle all of North America. I would make my way South to Central and South America before hopping over to the South Pacific and Australia. I’d trek through Asia and the Middle East, down through Africa and back up through Europe.
While I’m exploring, I will write about what I find and how I feel about it; I will photograph the beautiful and the ugly I see. I would love to share it with the people I love.
I want to see everything this world has to offer, taste food around the globe, hear different languages and meet different people. I want to learn about different cultures and history and religion. And somewhere along the way, I hope I finally discover who I am and where I belong.
I know I don’t have to take an around-the-world trip to find myself, but I am the type of person who needs to know all of the options available to me before making a choice. I am the kind of person who agonizes over not being able to try everything, and that paralyzes me in my decisions, making me always second guess what is right for me. Therefore, if i were free to do something for the rest of my life, I would explore all of my options and find the option that fits me best.
For free, for the rest of my life, I would keep a little farm.
Tend sheep, keep chickens, spin wool, knit with yarn, keep my little family close to me. Write in the mornings, work the farm in the day, gaze at the stars at night. Be present, work hard, sing songs, read books, can food, sew clothes, bake cookies, laugh with family, cherish friends.
For free, for the rest of my life, I would keep one little farm, one little homestead. And I would live that little corner of the world until I knew its every inch.
It was so hard for me to imagine what I would do with a million dollars. But for free, I know exactly what I would do.
I’ve had plenty of jobs that I’ve enjoyed, and would do without pay for awhile if I were to do them again, but I am not sure I would want to do them forever.
When I read this question this morning, I looked around myself and thought, I would take care of this home. Right now I am wanting nothing more than to be a stay at home mom, and look after my baby, and dive in to domestic life, cleaning and cooking and keeping the household organized. I especially want to tackle a few specific organization projects.
It’s funny to say, because I never really thought I would be the super domestic type, or even a mom. Right now I am working in a law office full time, and all I want to do is go home and focus on my family.
If I were to take on the domestic responsibilities full time, I would have so much fun with my girl, teaching her about the world. I would gladly clean the house and make it special for our family. With the holidays coming up I would put in some time creating decorations and baking treats for friends and family.
Of course, the irony is that I will be doing this for free for the rest of my Life anyway…full time paid office job or not. I just wish I did not have to divide my time.
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My first thought is: I am the mother of three children: no pay there! But the rewards are awesome!!
But what kind of work would I do for free all my life? Teaching, for sure! Maybe teach people how to sew, I LOVE sewing! Mentoring is a great option for me as well. I love learning from others and helping them to realize their greatest potential!
This was a much more difficult question than the million dollar question for me. I have come to realize that I have been able to provide for myself most of all of the things that I want to do. Certainly I would like to have a stronger yoga practice, but the Y and my company fitness center both offer classes and I never seem to go. I love to travel with my good friends, but in the last few years I have been able to do quite a lot of that. I love to read, and have an excellent public library at my disposal. So I guess I would have to say that I would love to have daycare for my newly adopted grandson-who-is-now-my-son paid for as it takes over a third of my take home pay. Or perhaps, just to have my mortgage and home maintenance taken care of. This would enable me to continue to do the things I love, and perhaps to do them just a little more often. But all in all, I feel blessed to be living the life that I am these days, free or not.
I’ll probably be an instructor about excel and personal finance. I enjoy teaching people how to do stuff so if I have to do something for the rest of my life that will be it.
This question also made me ponder if i can say the same about my job. A few years back, specifically in 2006, i was very passionate about my job. I say that is something I will do for the rest of my life even for free mainly because i enjoy doing it. I enjoy talking to people and helping them do their process efficiently and effectively.
Something changed between 2006 and 2011 that i can’t say i have the same answer. I guess my responsibilities as a person were smaller back then compared with my situation now. I am now a father and a husband instead of a young single guy that I was before. Added responsibilities somehow makes a person change his/her point of view. The fact that I am now to provide not only for myself but also for my family puts pressure on what activities i do now and how much i am paid for it.
Ironic because most books that i read suggest doing a job that someone enjoy the most and that’s where money is easiest to flow. However, i still need to have my own realization of that because I need to balance my responsibilities between satisfying myself through a job/activity that I love the most and at the same time making sure I remain a good provider to my family.
Most of all I would like to travel, visit places, not only the big cities but also go to remote areas, offer my services to any humanitarian agencies that need my help in the countries that I visit, stay as long as they need me, blog about it, take photographs, then off again to another place, taking trains, buses, walking and hitching a ride when I need to.
When my feet land in China, I would like to stay at least 3-5, perhaps 10 years to study Mandarin, offer my services for free to teach them English in exchange for the Mandarin lessons.
Same for the Middle East, I would like to stay at least 3-5 or 10 years to study Arabic and offer my services for free to teach them English.
Other than that, I would like to continue blogging and one day to write a book on my travel experiences.
Just exactly what I am doing. I love my job. It’s challenging, it exciting and I get to work with a variety of interesting clients.
Of course this presumes that I will still be able to provide for my family. If I still have to work for money, I think that I would also love to be a wilderness guide at a National Park like Denali NP or Glacier NP. Perhaps that is something I will volunteer to do in the summers later in life.
I love to write, expressing myself, communicating with others, so that could take the form of a blog. I am inspired by nature, and various interactions within nature. It’s like nature speaks to me, and I listen, and am inspired to write down that interaction. Or interactions with people as well. Messages come through. I find the whole process interesting and intriguing. Sometimes the dots are connected, revealing life’s enigmas, and sometimes the dots still need to be connected, and life’s mysteries remain, poised to be discovered. I love to hear the heartbeats in others’ words and ideas as well. And express my thoughts about what I hear or see.
Poetry can be a delicious way to let the juice of words run down the face of the paper. I am inspired to capture words and place them in a poem. Feelings that arise and have a passion to be expressed thread themselves within the eye of a word’s needle. I love to connect with people in an aware, sensitive, and fully alive place. Everyone, including myself, is on a journey that determines the quality of that aliveness, but the thought is to relate to each other as consciously and with as full a heart as one is able or as fully as one like to respond.
I am also very joyous and grateful to be involved in the healing process. My own, and others. Being tuned into the invisible, yet palpable healing space that is somehow translated when two or more are receptive to the mighty flow of healing that is available at any time. This healing journey may not manifest as one would picture it, but it nonetheless is very real and very powerful and indeed sacred, as are all mindful and loving journeys. It is indeed the exception when miracles do not occur, for all of life contains miracles abounding, especially since life itself is a miracle.
So. What to do without getting paid? Being available as a channel or assistant for the flow of healing energy is certainly a priority. Healing takes place in many ways….I have been trained in Craniosacral Therapy and Reiki, but healing can emerge in so many many ways…through writing, being inspired by the any of the Arts, listening to someone speaking whether it is a sage or it is anyone. Thoughts are prayers. Communication, writing for enjoyment, writing to inspire and uplift, all of these offer a different perspective, a different avenue of expression. Being a writer, and sharing what I’ve written is a great joy I would like to experience often. Having good conversations, where those involved are interested in both speaking and listening, is definitely something I am up for. Exchanging thoughts and ideas can be and often is inspiring and uplifting. So important to me is having supportive, honest, loyal friends, being a good friend, and taking care of myself so someone else won’t have to, so I can be available to be a helpful contribution in the world, living the creative, independent life I was born to express.
This is actually an easy one for me – I’d farm. Yep, that’s right, I’d be a farmer!! I love the idea of growing my own food. It would be an organic farm and I’d be ok not getting paid. It’s something I think about a lot. My husband and I vacation in the countryside often, to be near farms. I buy most of my food from farmers’ markets now. I don’t romanticize the farm life, I know how difficult it is, but it’s meaningful work.
I love how radical your passion is, Nancy!
This is my passion too (my comment is a few below yours)! Good luck – I know you can reach this goal!
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