Are You Ready for this Sacrifice to Become The Master of Your Work?

You cannot have the cake and eat it too – it’s impossible. Though logically people know that, they still fail to apply the underlying principle to many life’s situations, including work.

People think that they can master their chosen work but at the same time have a family, many hobbies, many friends, and so forth. That’s not possible, however, because of two reasons.

Reason number one – if you have many other things to do, you’ll not have enough time to daily perfect your skill, and thus you won’t be able to master the subtleties of your work. The subtleties is what makes you a top person at what you do, and it’s hardly likely you’ll get a grasp of them if you have many other things to juggle in your life.

Reason number two – your focus will be divided. Only when the focus is totally on one subject can the subject fully reveal its secrets to you.

To have enough time to perfect your skill and to not divide your attention are two important requirements to succeed at what you do. When you dedicate almost all your time to perfecting a skill, coupled with total focus on your work, you quickly progress to become the best at what you do, whilst those with not enough time and scattered attention achieve the same results many years after, or never.

Not everyone is meant to become masters of their work. Some people feel the need to have a family and a rich social life. That’s obviously not bad; every person is different, and in this post I focus on people who feel that they want to fully express themselves through some line of work.

You know you’re the person that’s supposed to dedicate most of the time to express oneself through work if work has always been number one in your life. That’s definitely a big sign that you need to spend as much time as you can to perfect your skill. Usually people for whom work is number one in life have the gift that humanity is in great need for, and that’s why they have this inner urge to work, whilst others may find work an unavoidable evil.

So if you’re one of such people, please think carefully before committing yourself to anything but your work. Because if you commit yourself to something else, be it having a family or a mortgage to pay, or even a pet to look after, you’ll acquire responsibilities that might prevent you from becoming the best in your occupation.

That especially applies to artistic people. They must follow their inner urges, so that they would be totally opened up to the Divine and manifest it perfectly through their line of work. Geniuses of this world always had an uncommon life. They usually were (and are) anti-social, with peculiar habits and ways of life. That’s because they totally follow their inner urges, which help them to discover their unique natures. But if one has a spouse, for example, limitations might be placed on them which would extinguish the fire of creativity – most people are not evolved enough not to try to control others in some way.

If an artist would feel the need to go into seclusion, meditate, pray to God, burn incense and then create, create, create… but he or she has a family and at the moment the child needs help with homework, or a spouse needs to be dropped to work; the artist would be deprived of creating when the Divine impulse reaches him or her, which would deny his or her full expression, which equals denying God trying to manifest through a human being.

That’s the danger of having a family. It will need to come first, always. That’s because you’ve made a choice to have this responsibility, and if you have other people dependent on you, your number one priority must be them. And that’s okay for most people, but it’s a big trap for those who’re not supposed to have families but do so due to social pressure or culture in general.

I’m truly grateful that I didn’t commit myself in any way to this world, and thus when the urge comes to seclude myself from the social life, I can easily take such a step. Sometimes my friends can’t see me for days. My phone is switched off, and I don’t answer the door. I stay at home, listen to devotional music, meditate, read, do yoga, and go deep into contemplation. Sometimes I sit in the evening with a cup of coffee in my jungle-like garden, simply watching coconut trees move, and listening to grass hoppers. I can sit this way for a very long time, until mosquitoes start to truly annoy me, and then I go to my partly covered porch, light incense and candles, and meditate.

Or sometimes when I wake up I feel that I must pray; I offer my gratitude to the Divine for my being, and I get lost in the bliss of the connection with the Source for hours, and writing becomes a spontaneous expression of this beautiful state.

Now how would I be able to do all these things if there would be a husband that needs attention, or a child that needs to be dropped to school? I don’t even see the absence of family or other commitments as sacrifice, though that would seem so for people who are meant to have a family. For me it’s common sense and a necessary thing to avoid to become the best at what I do. When you sacrifice other aspects of your life, it’s a law that you must truly perfect your work, as all your attention and time will be spent on one thing only.

Also, it would be very selfish of me to have a husband, or a child, since they would never come first. And I urge everyone to contemplate this, especially those who know for sure that their work will always be a top priority.

So if work comes first to you too, and it always did, know that you’re meant to perfect your skill, and to offer it for the benefit of humanity. Be careful, therefore, with any sort of worldly commitments so that they wouldn’t cage you. If sacrificing your social or intimate life seems like too much for you, then this post is not for you and it’s okay – not everyone should become perfect at their work, and the world needs parents to gift beautiful souls to this world.

Resource: simonarich.com