I will be the first one to admit that when I talk about the transformation of the American workplace and work, I am not talking about solving the problems that we normally associate with workplace misery and job dissatisfaction. I do not discuss pay, job descriptions, co-worker conflict, or office management issues.
So if you are experiencing any of these issues, I am not your “go-to” workplace blogger. If you want to know how to get that top paying position that twenty gazillion other people are applying for, I am of no use to you. If you are concerned about a manager or supervisor who is giving you the blues, I have to pass. There are workplace consultants whose job it is to help employees and businesses address these and the many other issues that contribute to workplace misery.
Also I will be the first one to admit that if the ideas that I suggest for the elimination of workplace misery are implemented, there will be no American workplace as we know it. I’m suggesting that we create a new narrative, a new earth experience that does not include our former beliefs about work and working. As a matter of fact, a shifted or transformed consciousness is the only consciousness that can entertain the idea of a new narrative. Only a transformed consciousness can create a new narrative that can receive the vision of a new earth, because vision is given.
There are no beliefs in the old narrative that can be salvaged, in or out of the American workplace. The belief that it is normal to work at a job 40 hours a week that does not contribute to your well-being or the well-being of your family, community or the planet is unsustainable and spiritually counterintuitive.
The belief that allows millions of people to climb into their cars, five days a week, sit in bumper-to-bumper traffic to get back and forth to a workplace to do a job that does not contribute to the joy and well-being of all life on the planet is “old narrative” consciousness.
With the awareness of the creative power of the mind, the belief that hard-work is one of the keys to success is simply no longer believable.
The belief that one must work for a living has imprisoned our creative powers to such an extent that the majority of us cannot fathom that we were not born to learn to earn, work and retire.
Yes there are some who truly love their jobs, but these people are rare, and they would be the first to admit that what they do does not feel like work at all. There are some jobs that people love to do that truly benefit the well-being of the planet and all life on it, but again these jobs are rare. Most of us do jobs that first feed the bottom line and put food on the table and gas in the tank, second. Almost none of us do what our hearts would guide us to do, or what we came to this planet to do.
We do what we are told to do. We learn and train for the jobs that we are told are important, the jobs that are available, which are almost always the jobs that sustain the unsustainable bottom line. On the other hand, the new narrative looks at our needs, the needs of our families, our communities and the planet and asks, “Who came to fulfill this need?”
These ideas cause a disruption of sorts to the consciousness that operates on the old narrative. The ideas in the new narrative are in stark contrast to all that we have been told and learned about a healthy economy, the job market, the financial world, business laws and maybe even human nature.
But the ideas that disrupt the old narrative are the ideas on which I base my call for the transformation of the American workplace and the creation of a new narrative. It is the call to shift our focus, to imagine that we are creators, and that creating joy and well-being, not working, is the only sane path to living on the planet.
This is a part of the dialogue, at the leading edge of consciousness!
