TV Can Be Good For The Soul

Once basic survival needs have been sorted, is the greatest challenge facing man to be content?  Happy even. So why does it seem to elude so many of us?

It’s not that I’m unhappy, but it seems to have taken yonks to discover what I really want to do.  And the secret for me lay in working out what I would do without being paid.  What I choose to do in my ‘spare’ time.

I think the confusion arises from the basic premise that the way you earn money has to be called work.  An activity, or location, where you earn the money you need to live, and hopefully a few pence left over to fund a bit of fun, peace and happiness.  Those two weeks in the sun with the family for the annual get-away.

Are we really only allocated 14 days of fun a year?

Why can’t we do what we love 24/7?  And if we did maybe we wouldn’t call it work.

It’s easy to believe that people like Mother Theresa and Richard Branson are doing what they love.  Lives on purpose.  But I guess I needed to see a bit more of the average joe before I could believe.  The solution for me?  The National Geographic Channel.  Mark and I have almost given up watching TV, a) too busy, and b) trying to spend our time doing something worthwhile.  The result is that we lost touch with the rest of the world.

And National Geographic is a value way of swapping time for personnel development.  In just one short hour we watched blokes whose lives revolved around tracking and measuring freash water fish in Mongolia.  In this programme in particular they were on the tail of a Monster Trout.  This was more than the usual ‘it was this big’ experience because the presence of the mega trout would demonstrate that the ecosystem of the river was functioning as it should be. The bloke who found it was ecstatic.  Truly over the moon.  The sort of joy you can’t buy.

Do you think he calls this work.  I doubt it very much.  So the only question now is why not me?  Why not you?

Sian does loads of things, too many to be brilliant at any of them. She co-founded Stormchasers Ltd with her husband Mark, runs a internet marketing training group for small businesses, is a writer, blogger, Master NLP Practitioner and business coach. Sian & Mark contribute jointly to the Ex-armed Forces Club and their blog, Leaving The Armed Forces, the programme to support anyone leaving the armed forces (surprisingly enough). Oh, and they help small businesses with a boring old website sitting around like a lump of toffee stuck down the back of the sofa, to get a dynamic and fluffy blog.

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