Discovering Your Saturday-Night Essence
After my last post,
Finding Your Saturday-Night Essence, several people asked me: "How do I discover my Saturday-Night Essence?"
I don't claim to be an expert, but perhaps I can offer a few suggestions to point you in the right direction. Consider the following:
Do you feel a tug to get back to your livelihood - after work and on weekends? I'm not talking about external deadlines, but internal desires. If not, then you are swimming upstream and your livelihood is more of a burden then a downhill rush. If you had found your Saturday-Night Essence, then thinking about work would be a natural downhill rush.
To discover your unique path is not easy because your mind will not open the door to it. Your unique path has been buried by falling leaves of resignation over time, so you might not recognize it even if you are looking at it.
The life you were meant to live has been filed away somewhere in your mind, perhaps permanently shut off in some closed section called "The Impractical Section." Let's not argue practicality for now, but open your mind (or at least stretch you mind) to discover your unique path and the person you were meant to be. How to pursue your Saturday-Night Essence is a topic perhaps for another time and place.
For now, remember back over the past year. Write down what you did in the evenings and weekends. The more humdrum or boring it is, the more value it will be to you in discovering the person you were meant to be.
Was there ever a weekday evening or weekend in which you would have done something different then what you did, not because of some external demand or deadline, but rather because you wanted to?
Was there something different that was not a chore, not something you had to force yourself to do, but rather something you wanted to do? I'm not saying anything like going to a football game or the theatre or some other passive entertainment, but something that took initiative on your part?
Can you remember moments in your life when you broke from your normal evenings and weekends? It may have happened only once, but you are looking for an activity, project, or interest that pulled you away-by your own will-from the environment that normally surrounds you. How did you feel while doing that special activity? Ask yourself: why did you not continue to pursue it more aggressively?
What motivates or inspires you when you focus your thoughts naturally in the evenings and weekends? Does the idea of success or power excite you?
Answering the questions potentially sheds light inside your psyche on a tiny cell of motivation that is uniquely yours. Your Saturday-Night Essence always exists in you and you just need to identify it. What is something that you are drawn to, something that genuinely interests you? Perhaps it is something that you have always been drawn to or sometimes it is a clue of something you like to read about. Forget about any kind of judgment for now, just think about something that naturally attracts you and has done so over your life.
Try to finally see that recurring interest - try now to see the trend over your life and pay attention to that particular interest. Does that thought excite you? If so, you have discovered something that brings you passion and deep motivation. You have discovered an interest that has downhill focus for you to pursue. You have discovered your Saturday-Night Essence.
This discovery will pull you out of your rut and send you along your unique path toward exciting success, happiness and romantic love. The beauty of finding your Saturday-Night Essence is a new adventure in life and it gets more and more exhilarating the further you go. With each day, each week, gets you more and more involved with the person you were meant to be. It is the love for the journey that will bring you to major success. Once you're on your way, you know it, and nothing can stop you.
In two weeks, I'll talk about pursuing your Saturday-Night Essence as it relates to your current vocation or livelihood.
Your thoughts?