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What We're Thinking
Live Your Making Rather Than Make a Living
When Natalie McFarlane says she set out to "live her making" rather than "make a living" she voices a beautiful idea. Having developed herself as a lawyer she chose to put those abilities to work in the service of social enterprise. Her law firm, Positive Impact Law Group, provides legal services to what she calls practical idealists and their organizations.
"Living our making" is a liberating stance. If we believe we are made with certain gifts, accept that we will be most fulfilled when actualizing those gifts through our work, and then putting them in the service of community lays a foundation for fulfilling work.
When we "live our making" we begin with the one place in which we are in complete command of our decisions and success. To live our making is to work according to our own decided purpose. We can commit to doing certain things, do them, and express ourselves and our gifts in the doing of it. The life giving feedback from this is intrinsic, therefore trustworthy and actionable. We can discern for ourselves our next growth step.
From this stance our view of our surroundings and circumstances will stem. Then we move to: what can I contribute? Contribution is the doorway to relationship and community. Read More |
