Dream the future. Walk in your truth. Believe in yourself. Live in the present. Embrace your fears. Live your passions well. Follow your deepest desires. Take risks and have adventures. Laugh and pray at sunrise. Say thank you at sunset. Howl at the moon...just for fun.

NJO

I have been thinking more and more about the NJO, or no job option. Most of my time is spent helping students plan for the future, which includes career advice. Recently I am hearing about how they feel trapped in jobs that are making them sick because of the economy. I tell them that our minds our never trapped. We can choose the freedom of thinking differently, approaching something differently, and trying something differently. We can choose to be happy.

This might mean treating a job more like a job and less like the focus of life. This might mean starting to build other income streams so that we are prepared for capricious shifts in the economy or our jobs. This could also mean finally pursing something we love, even just as a hobby, so that new doors can open for us.

Pirates know that there is always a way...maybe not the tried and true, predictable, expected way, or the way we were taught....but there is always a way.