The Greatest Work (2)
April 30, 2009
A place to land
In talking with some friends recently, I found myself saying that it’s important to land the work that we do, rather than think that it will do whatever it needs to, without any further help from us.
I say that for the following reasons -
- when you land something, by writing or talking about it, then you get to be an authority on it;
- the more that you get involved in the development and evolvement of your work then the more enthused and energised you become;
- your relationship with your work continually dances, so it’s important to find the essence of what you continue to express – get the essence and it becomes easy to land your work;
- when your work is far bigger than any personal vision then it will attract the right level of support (collective collaboration);
- your work will always be far more expansive than what you think it is;
- but the more focused you can be then the greater the potential for developing your own body of work.
Developing your own body of work requires that you consider what you are continually at work on – and that you literally embody the consciousness of that work.
Of course, we are talking about our Greatest Work here – that which impels us to collective action. That prompts questions such as
- What does the Greatest Work look like for each one of us?
- How can we combine our Greatest Work to ensure that we are all taking the right collective action?
Somehow it leads me back to reconsider my assertion above.
We do need to create a landing place ( in our ever-changing reality) that takes account of our collective action but … we must allow that our collective consciousness will ensure that we all work to the best of our abilities, to provide whatever is right for us all.