Music and movement

The topic of music and movement in the curriculum is an area that has long been neglected up until recently. Educators are now becoming more aware of the benefits of a quality music and movement program because of increased studies. Researchers have found that music and movement programs have a positive impact on child development for children between birth and their primary school years in many of the developmental domains. Singing songs to children and with them will teach them about beat, tones, and lyrics which are all important in developing auditory discrimination. The use of instruments will promote fine motor development and encourage creative development. Creative movement helps children learn many concepts such as balance, coordination, rhythm, and is also an important tool for developing self-esteem and body awareness and the own development of the child itself. Music and movement has been added to the curriculum in a larger effort to bring and keep Arts Enrichment courses in the schools. Many organizations and businesses have been developed to bring programs to schools and the rest of the community. With the use of music children can develop cognitive skills, such as counting, the alphabet, days of the week their address and phone number, just to name a few.

Annotated Bibliography

This annotated bibliography will help educators learn about the importance of music and movement programs, and create their own programs within their classroom. Below are links to external websites that provide information in the form of online articles, lesson plans and activities, and sites to purchase materials. Providing this an annotated bibliography will allow the reader to know what the website contains before accessing it.

Online Articles

Baney, C. E. (2002). Wired for sound: The essential connection between music and development. Exelligence Learning Corporation. Retrieved October 27, 2004, from http://www.earlychildhood.com/Articles/index.cfm?FuseAction=Article&A=69

This article focuses on the link between music and intellect. It goes on to discuss the many different research experiments that have been conducted that all seek to prove that there is a link between music and children’s functioning. All of the studies that were discussed did find that music was beneficial for children and in most cases seen an improvement in the area that was being studied which included math and science skills, spatial skills, and even music aptitude. This article also focuses on what educators and caregivers can do to incorporate music into their daily routine. It concludes with giving direct points regarding the benefits of music and movement.

Boyd, K. S., Chalk, M. S., & Law, J. S. (n.d.) Retrieved November 3, 2004, from http://www.creativekidsonthemove.com/Dance.htm

This article discusses the importance of creative movement and its many benefits. Creative Movement is an exciting way for children to explore movement through music. Creative movement also teaches children a lot about their own personal bodies, the space around them, and their other classmates. This article also goes on to discuss the many other benefits of creative movement. It outlines many findings in relation to child development, sensory awareness, social development, health and fitness, language development and cognitive learning, self-esteem and so much more. While the article isn’t very in-depth it does give a great overview of the benefits of creative movement.

Levinowitz, L. M. The importance of music in early childhood. General Music Today, p. 1-4. Retrieved October 27, 2004, from http://www.musictogetherphila.com/music.pdf

This article gives a very general description about how children progress in their individual music development. While the article was very short it did give a lot information about how children progress for infancy to childhood. Siting a lot of research has been done in the area of children and music. One of the most interesting findings is that young children develop musically through a predictable sequence to basic music competence. The article also went on to describe what parents and caregivers can do to ensure that their child is developing appropriately.

Start the music: A report from the Early Childhood Music Summit. (2000). Retrieved October 27, 2004, from http://www.menc.org/guides/startmusic/stmreport.htm

Start the music was a report based on the early childhood music summit. The meeting was held as a way to educate the public about the importance of music and to make it an essential component in early childhood development. Many of the benefits of music and movement programs/activities which have been found in extensive research studies were addressed. The summit also addressed three needs that they viewed as very important that needed to be met. They are;

1. Music educators and providers of early childhood education need to identify and create ways that enable music to be treated as a basic and integral part of every young child’s education,
2. Both teachers and care providers must be encouraged to provide quality music instruction to all children, and
3. Those with "authorization authority" i.e., legislators and politicians, school board members, state- and district-level administrators, principals, and in the end, the general public, are a target for the Summit’s messages.

Strategies were created for each of the above needs. This can help educators who do not have a strong music program to create one. Overall the notes from the summit were very informative and provided a lot of great ideas that school boards need to implement.

all about music management and skill for get money

Royalty Income is paid to you forever for your songs you record, book you write or invention you patent

Royalty Income is payment for the use and exploitation of certain kinds of property, such as artistic or literary works, patents of inventions, and mineral rights.

Royalty income is similar to what many successful businesses earn each and every day. Once they build their business (like writing or recording that song), they keep making money FOREVER. Insurance agents, appliance warranties, cable TV, ISP’s (AOL), utility companies, just to name a few, all earn royalties.

They have learned one secret the rest of the world hasn’t... leverage through the efforts of lots of other people.

Find out how to start getting royalty income from your music
Many inventors’ aim is to license their invention to an existing manufacturer or retailer and receive a royalty on every unit sold. The main alternatives would be ‘going it alone’ — producing and/or retailing the invention yourself — or an outright sale of all rights to the invention to someone else in return for a lump sum, but there are many possible models, including a lump sum plus (smaller) royalties, a joint venture with an existing manufacturer, licensing to multiple manufacturers simultaneously, perhaps in different markets or countries, or a development agreement with a manufacturer royalty income in which you are paid to develop the invention to production standards and receive a small royalty on every unit.

Licensing With Royalties

Simple licensing with royalties can be lucrative, but just as with most writers it is only a small percentage who actually become wealthy through it. Your royalty income is entirely dependent on the number of units sold, and you have no control over how that is done.

You may be able to negotiate a contract where, if you feel the manufacturer is not making appropriate marketing efforts, you can end the arrangement, but actually following up on this can be difficult. Some companies do, from time to time, license inventions which they have no intention of producing, in order to prevent a rival from producing them, in which case you would receive no royalties. You might also agree to license the invention for a fixed period, but again, there are problems: by the time the period is royalty income over, rival companies have had a chance to examine your product in the marketplace and develop alternatives.

Working With a Company

Overall, the best arrangement is probably one where you work with a company to develop your invention, taking advantage of the company’s facilities, expertise and contacts, and your innovation and insights, and receive royalties on sales.

In these cases, the commitment and investment by the company makes it more likely that large efforts will be made to get the product and the marketing right; you may also receive a salary or at least expenses for your co-development efforts.

If a company expects you to get the invention to production standards with no assistance, but offers only royalties on sales, this is probably best to avoid unless you are confident that your invention is completely ready, and even then you would have much more control by going it alone.

How much should royalties be? They are usually specified as a percentage of the price at which the manufacturer or retailer sells to distributors or other retailers.

Given the level of mark-up along the line (a shop may have a margin of 40% of the sale price, and the distributors will take maybe 30% of what is left), an apparent inventor’s royalty of 2.5% (fairly typical) on a product with an RRP of £30 may work out to just £30 × 60% × 70% × 2.5% = 31.5 pence.

If you’ve spent £10,000 of your own money developing an invention, the manufacturer would need to sell nearly 32,000 units before you break even.

Many companies will offer inventors a contract with variable royalties dependent on sales. Occasionally these are weighted so that the larger the number of sales (the more successful the invention), the higher the percentage the inventor receives, but this is unusual.

It is more common for the percentage to decrease as the number of sales rises, so that an inventor’s royalty income may actually stay fairly constant during the time that the invention really ‘takes off’ and then decrease thereafter as sales decrease again.

Establish a Good Relationship With the Company

If you do not feel the company with which you are negotiating is trustworthy, then it is best not to proceed. Do not be dazzled by dreams of vast royalties; even if the company is fully trustworthy, it may still be looking very closely at how to develop your invention, outside of the intellectual property that you own, in order to circumvent paying you future royalties. The key in this situation is to establish a good relationship with the company and continue to collaborate on development of the product so that you remain involved and with some degree of control.

Don’t Die With Your Music Still In You

January 8th, 2005 by Steve Pavlina Email this article to a friend

What if you currently live a very comfortable lifestyle and you have a lot of assets? How can you justify running off to do what truly makes you happy if it might put all your current assets at risk?

Here’s my take on this….

To abandon a comfortable lifestyle that isn’t deeply fulfilling is to abandon nothing. There’s nothing of real substance there to protect. An income, a car, a house, or a lifestyle are not worth protecting if the cost of such protection is your own fulfillment and happiness. People who achieve some of the external trappings of success without internal fulfillment are only living an illusion when they tell themselves they have something of value to protect. In most cases the feeling that there’s something to protect is just an excuse used to avoid facing the real fear — that maybe all this stuff isn’t really worth anything compared to what’s being lost… that maybe I should be living more boldly and not be so concerned about what happens to all my stuff.

I currently have some material stuff in my life. I have a business, computers, a car that’s fully paid for, and my wife and I are closing escrow on a new home we’ve bought. But that’s all just stuff. It doesn’t matter. It doesn’t have any real value. I’d gladly give it all up and live in a shack if that was the price I’d have to pay to live my mission. I want my life to have had more value than just acquiring stuff and living comfortably. I may die rich, or I may die broke. But I won’t die with my music still in me.

After all, why are we here? Is it to acquire stuff, live a comfortable lifestyle, make our families as comfortable as possible, and then die? Whether there’s an afterlife or not, one thing is clear — we can’t take any of that stuff with us. Our comfortable lifestyle has no power to endure.

And here’s the worst part. While you’re working so hard to acquire and protect all that stuff, you could die unexpectedly. You might die today. You might die tomorrow. Maybe you won’t die for another 70 years. Maybe your consciousness will be transferred into an android body a few decades from now, but you could still be destroyed in an accident, even if you make a backup of yourself. At least in the present, you’re still vulnerable. Death happens to people every day. 150,000+ people died from the quake and tsunami in Southeast Asia. How many of them knew at the beginning of December 2004 that they only had a few weeks left to live? And look what happened to all the stuff those people acquired — destroyed. Fisherman or tourist — it doesn’t matter. We all end up the same way.

So what is the point of a life dedicated to the acquisition and protection of stuff? All of your money and possessions can be taken away from you by forces outside your control. No matter how many asset protection techniques you apply, you can never guarantee full security of your stuff. It’s perpetually vulnerable. There can be no true security then in a life based on the acquisition and protection of stuff.

So what have you got to lose? What are you truly risking if you go after your dreams? If your current lifestyle is unfulfilling, then you’re starting broke, no matter how much money you have. It doesn’t matter if you start with $0 or $1 million. You have nothing to lose either way. Money and material assets are just resources to use while you’re here — you can’t take them with you. You’re only a temporary steward of the money and possessions that pass through your life. So when you risk money, you don’t risk anything of any enduring value. Earn money, lose money, invest money. But don’t make material objects more important than your own fulfillment and happiness.

If you’re sitting behind a desk working at a job you hate in order to protect your current lifestyle, you are protecting nothing. Isn’t there a part of you, deep inside, that wants to just walk away from all of that junk and start really living? Can you feel how empty and hollow your days are, how devoid of meaning? Have you forgotten what it’s like to really live a day that fulfills you deeply as a human being? Look around your home at all your stuff. Recognize that in the long run, it will all eventually end up as dust. None of it will endure. It’s all temporary. Your house will eventually crumble. Your car will wind up in a junkyard. You cannot permanently keep any of this stuff. Eventually you’re going to lose it all. Or it will lose you.

So what kind of life is that — one that’s dedicated to the guarding of dust? Is that what you want your life to be about? If you feel there’s any purpose to your existence as a human being, then is this it?

Life is just too precious to waste. If you are spending your days working at a job that isn’t deeply fulfilling to you, then you’re spending your days guarding dust. There’s no real value there. Stuff cannot fulfill you. Ultimately it will only distract you from living on purpose.

What does it mean to really live? Deep down, you already have a sense of the direction where this answer lies for you. Ultimately, it’s a choice. You’re totally free to live the kind of life you want. But you’ll know you’re really living when you would live pretty much the same way even if you knew you only had 18 months left. If you would make some big changes in your life upon learning that you only had 18 months to live, then why not make those changes now? Someone reading this blog entry probably has less than 18 months to live. Maybe it’s you.

Live for what is real to you. Live for what truly matters to you.

What matters to me — what is real to me — is inspiring and helping people. Directly or indirectly, whenever I’m able to help someone solve a really tough problem or to motivate someone to finally push past a big obstacle, that is something I find tremendously fulfilling. And the fulfillment I get from doing this is so great that it trumps all the external stuff. It doesn’t matter how much money I make. It doesn’t matter if people reject my ideas or poke fun at what I enjoy doing. This blog entry may be read by over 1000 people, but it may be such that the ideas within are only able to help one person in a very small way. The other 999 may conclude I’m nuts and unsubscribe. And that’s fine. It’s that one person I’m writing for.

But at the same time, starting from the point of spending each day doing something that fulfills me, I’m building this work into a business that can support and sustain me and my family. This will ultimately include paid speaking engagements, and information products like books and audio programs. So I’m starting with doing what I love and building it into a source of income. The more money the business generates, the more people I’m ultimately able to reach. So making money is aligned with my own personal fulfillment — they aren’t at odds with each other. If you do what you love, then you can surely find a way to turn it into an income stream — then the more money you make, the more you expand your capacity to continue doing what you love in bigger and bigger ways.

Taking what you love to do and turning it into a source of income, either as an employee or an entrepreneur, seems hard to resist. If you’re going to spend so much time working to make money, why not make that money in the pursuit of your dreams instead of in the protection of dust?

What does your current to do list look like? Is it filled with tasks that aren’t even real to you? Are you typing stuff that doesn’t matter, going to soulless meetings, shuffling papers and filling out forms to appease computers, while sitting in a Dilbert-style cage all day? Why do you continue to choose that life each day? You’re always free to stop at any time. You make the rules.

What percentage of the tasks on your to do list will fulfill you deeply to do them? What kind of to do list would be real to you? What items might it contain? Compose a new piece of music. Write something inspiring and share it with others. Give your spouse a massage. Exercise. Play with your kids. Make a snowman in Las Vegas (my wife did this one yesterday). Clear out some clutter. Read a really great book. Audition for a local play. Start your own business. Tell your boss, “Talk to the hand. I don’t do soulless work anymore.” Do something that leaves you feeling at the end of the day that you really contributed the best of yourself. Don’t die with your music still in you.

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1. Brian Swanson Says:
   January 8th, 2005 at 8:12 am

   I hate to keep posting the negative responses to your articles, because despite my responses I am inspired by what you are doing and saying here.

   “I’d gladly give it all up and live in a shack if that was the price I’d have to pay to live my mission.” — If I were the only one to consider in reaching my goals I’d do this as well. I have 3 children, and sure they’d eventually get over it, but how do you explain to children why they don’t have their own room anymore, why they can’t go to the private school they’ve been going to, why christmas isn’t very big this year…

   I AM a CHICKEN when it comes to following my dreams, I know this, and I’m overcoming it, not by taking a great leap of faith, but by making small gains towards that goal over time.

   I don’t mean this as an attack, but as an observation…It’s always easier to say that you should take that leap of faith to someone when you’re successfully doing what you want to be doing. I’m not telling you to not help people in this way, because there will be that 1 person who takes that step based on reading your blog and they will become GREATLY successful and they’ll owe it all to you. I guess the purpose of this post is to defend my hesitation more than to talk anyone else out of their own decisions.

   Here’s an idea though Steve…Shut down Dexterity.com, quit selling your games you’ve already written, so that you can completely focus on your dream of helping people and speaking…That would be the equivalent of asking us to give up the lives we’ve built to go after our dreams.

2. Steve Pavlina Says:
   January 8th, 2005 at 8:51 am

   I have a family with 2 kids as well (ages 1 and 4). Of course I don’t expect to have to move to a shack. But I’d rather see my kids grow up with the model of a father who is very happy and fulfilled and doing what he really dreams of doing instead of just working 9-5 at some random job. That’s more important to me than what material stuff we have in our lives.

   But in reality, I expect to get both. When I work each day from doing what I love, the money takes care of itself. There is no trade-off in my mind between doing what I love and having all the external trappings of success — they’re a package deal. You just have to decide to get both.

   I’ve already done the quitting part by burning the ships whenever I needed to make a big change. When I graduated college, I quit my full-time contractor job as a game programmer and dove full-time into building my own games business, with no income to start. Then when I wanted to get out of retail development, I completely shut down that business and terminated my contract with my agent (no additional income) and switched over to shareware full-time, building a new income source from the ground up. And if continuing to run dexterity.com were holding me back, I’d shut it down today too, but given that I can maintain it on about an hour a week, I’ve kept it running as a hobby, especially since it’s something I still enjoy doing in a limited capacity. I’m still sending out royalty checks every month, so continuing the business helps other indie developers as well. But if this was a 40-hour per week operation that got in the way of what I’m doing now, then I would shut it down in a heartbeat.

   I don’t see living this way as risky. If I stop doing something that no longer inspires me, then what have I lost? Nothing. But if I hold back out of fear, then I’m losing a great deal. When people clutch onto jobs they hate and stuff that doesn’t really matter to them, they’re holding nothing but dust. They have nothing to lose by letting go of their attachments, although they think they do.

   If setbacks happen, such as if you run low on money, then what does it matter if you can’t buy all the Christmas presents your kids want? Commercial gifts have little real value anyway. Kids get toys they don’t even play with. How is that even a sacrifice if you can’t provide it? To me an example of a real gift was seeing Dr. Wayne Dyer invite his daughter up on stage with him to sing in front of his audience of 2000 (since she wants to be a singer), and he helped encourage her to produce her first CD (I own a copy). Now that’s a gift, but not the kind you can buy at the mall.

   A little secret I should convey is that there seems to be some force in the universe that will conspire to help you achieve your dreams when you really get yourself aligned with them and moving committedly in that direction. Once you get started on the right path for you, you don’t have to go it alone. I don’t know precisely why this is so, but it just always seems to work that way. When you know you’re doing what you really feel you should be doing, everything just clicks. Even when setbacks occur, right behind them is a new opportunity that turns the setback seem into a stepping stone.

   Inaction grows fear. Action melts it. When you stand still, you feel fear. When you move, there just isn’t any.

3. Paul Says:
   January 8th, 2005 at 9:42 am

   Children mean that you can’t suddently stop doing everything you did, naturally, it just takes more time, but I think that it isn’t impossible. Anyway, that’s why people should start following dreams when young, without family and children. The problem is, young people usually don’t exactly know what their dream is. They are usually(not everyone of course) in the cage of routine that the society linked-learn, do school, unversity, find job with steady income…then bang, you are 35, you have family and realise that the job isn’t exactly what fullfils you. Of course, you can change it but you will pay for the time you lost, it will be harder now. That’s why I used my brake and started now working on my dreams as relatively young man:). I’m encouraging everyone - start thinking about yourself and your dreams as soon as possible, don’t fall into daily routines, that’s a killer for your spirit.

4. John Says:
   January 8th, 2005 at 10:00 am

   Steve i guess you moderate each comments before their displaying.
   But you should indicate that the comment will be avaible after moderation because people simply don’t know and they can think the post hasn’t be send to your website and so, repost again a similar message.(like me on your precedent post

5. Steve Pavlina Says:
   January 8th, 2005 at 10:17 am

   Comments are indeed moderated, so there’s a delay before they show up. I didn’t want to have to do that, but there are bots attempting to post comment spam every day now. This blog has filters that auto-delete most of it (virtually all of it is from online poker sites), but some still gets through. I wish the developer of this blog software would add an image-based verification system for posting comments, but he seems resistant to the idea (despite a lot of bloggers requesting it) because he claims it would reduce accessibility.

6. JD Says:
   January 8th, 2005 at 11:05 am

   Try spam-karma plugin which should take care of this problem. I used to get tons of p*o*k*e*r spam, but I hardly get any spam. Comments which are definitely spam are auto deleted, other comments are either automatically approved or placed in moderatio queue depending upon the probability of comment being spam.

   JD

7. DH Says:
   January 8th, 2005 at 11:11 am

   Steve,
   I just read your latest blog entry and I have to say - I am completely blown away. In my opinion, of all the excellent articles and blog entries you wrote, this one reached me the deepest. I wanted to share with you briefly that you did reach someone out here, but in a very big way.
   Here’s a quick backgrounder on me:
   I am currently working on turning my part-time shareware development business (financial analysis software) into a full-time game development company, as this is where my heart is and where I find unlimited happiness. I truly enjoy making games and showing them to my friends in my spare time (ever since I was in the 5th grade) and I am now in the process of aligning everything in my life toward my goal of running a successful game company. I am 31 years old, married (no kids) and my wife thinks it is immature and a huge waste of time to have anything to do with computer games. I have told her on multiple occasions that that although my current full-time Software Engineering job is ‘OK’ (developing GPS tracking applications for commercial vehicles), it is nothing more than a mind-numbing corporate job that I use to simply pay for the house, car, and all the other ’stuff’ in our lives.

   I see all the people and things in my life that attempt to block me from my goals, as I am sure you have. I just wanted to say that this article helped provide a little boost of clarity to see over, around, and through all these obstacles - to what is truly important to me.

   Thank you.

8. Greg G Says:
   January 8th, 2005 at 11:38 am

   I can sympathize with Brian’s comments. Steve, I also appreciate your write-up’s, but you also have to understand that not everyone is ready to make great leaps from one thing to another and chuck everything in the process. For many it is much more of a grey area. And those who have responsiblities to take care of others, may not be able to just switch everything off and start over so quickly.

   With reference of the other post of starting young, many older folks still don’t know what there “Big Dream” is, let alone how to pursue it. But they are living comfortably enough that they don’t feel an urgent need to bust loose in some big way.

   Another point is that many people are not interested in making major impacts on society or the world at large, and are very comfortable just having a close family, a nice home and a car that works even if they just look at their job as just a way to earn money. And I think that is where some folks may take some exception to your comments which seem to look down on that attitude at times, although I’m sure it is not intended that way.

   All that said, if you are truly miserable with what you are doing, then it is definitely better to try something else even if it may mean taking a lifestyle hit. Those of us that are lucky enough to have a fulfilling career and lifestyle just have to keep in mind that everything is not always as black and white as we’d like to think.

   Greg

9. Steve Pavlina Says:
   January 8th, 2005 at 12:40 pm

   Plenty of time for comfort after you’re dead. Coffins can be really cozy.

   The funny part is that when you actually do chuck the “everything,” you find that you really gave up nothing at all. You give up the comfort of standing still for the freedom and possibilities of movement, which can be uncomfortable at first, but that discomfort is quickly replaced by a much greater sense of self-trust. It becomes a moving comfort instead of a static one. You get your sense of security from who you are instead of from what you have, and that kind of security can never be threatened or taken away, so in the long run, it’s a far more “comfortable” place to be.

   So again, when you give up the static form of comfort that comes from having a seemingly stable job, a house, a particular lifestyle, etc., you really give up nothing. That kind of comfort is unstable anyway. If you don’t shake it up yourself, life itself will eventually do it for you.

10. Dino Says:
    January 8th, 2005 at 2:10 pm

    Why do so many readers comment against the notion of leaving everything behind in order to move forward? I didn’t catch that in any of Steve’s articles. Quite the opposite, material things that you have should be the resources that you can use in your own pursuit for fulfillment. Some of it you can lose in the process, but don’t give it away just for sake of giving it away.

11. Steve Pavlina Says:
    January 8th, 2005 at 3:06 pm

    I think some readers are confusing letting go of their current lifestyle and stuff with letting go of their attachment to that lifestyle and stuff. You can do the latter without necessarily having to do the former.

12. Rich Says:
    January 8th, 2005 at 9:34 pm

    Right. It’s a matter of “If I have to, I can throw all this other stuff away if I need to to pursue my goal of fulfillment.” You often don’t have to, but you know what your priorities are–fulfillment over “stuff”.

    I might have asked before; I’ll have to check–but a article or articles on finding oneself or finding one’s music, as it were, would be appreciated. I think by others, too. Thanks for the articles, and good luck on your path.

13. Roger Jack Says:
    January 9th, 2005 at 6:11 am

    I really enjoyed this article. I have found it to be personally true that when I do the work that I like, the money will generally follow.

    Many of the comments to this entry are related to having family responsibilities, etc. that prevent you from making a change. I think, at worst, it just modifies the rate of chanage. Steve is not saying you have to drop everything tomorrow to pursue your dream. Make a plan to change and then follow it. The plan can be as slow or fast as you want it to be. The biggest waste of your life is to hate what you are doing and have no real plan to change. When you talk to old people that are bitter, most of them don’t say “I’m glad I stayed in my safe job”. Most of them say “I wish I had taken the risk to do x”.

    For God’s sake, just do it!

14. Richard Says:
    January 9th, 2005 at 9:26 am

    Steve,

    The timing of this post couldn’t come at a better time for me. I am at the brink of making a dramatic life change. After spending the past 2 years at a company I am not very happy with and the last 6 months of that working for a toxic manager I have come to the conclusion that I am going to resign. What is scary is that I don’t have another permanent position lined up. I am actively interviewing and have some promising prospects but nothing in writing.

    Though, this decision doesn’t come under haste. I have been discussing this with my wife for 2 weeks. With some sacrifices we can break even under her income while I search for more work. She is a blessed angel to be so understanding. She is for me resigning because I am so miserable it is preventing us from having any kind of life. The manager I am working for is known to be toxic and highly abusive to his employees. However, he is a senior V.P. and is not going anywhere. I have gotten to the point where I am having anxiety attacks just thinking about going to work.

    My plan is to go back to IT contracting and look for part time work for money. “Making money” has become a second priority in my life. I have been doing that since I graduated from college and have never been very happy. For the past year I have been consuming motivational material from the likes of Carnegie and Hill, which without those books, I know I couldn’t make this kind of change.

    My goal is to be “Self Employed” how I am going to do that I don’t know. I have many talents and interests but hard to concentrate on one. I am even considering starting a Blog of my adventures. I also know somehow that from this failure I will emerge extremely successful.

    I know this might seem foolish but for I need to live. I currently spend close to 12+ hours a day in a living hell.

    Steve, thanks for your work

15. Steve Pavlina Says:
    January 9th, 2005 at 9:46 am

    Thanks so much for sharing that, Richard. I think you’ll find that once you remove yourself from the toxic situation, the sense of your real self will emerge once again, and you’ll be in a much more resourceful position. Then you’ll be shaking your head wondering how you ever let things get so bad. Toxic people can drain your energy so gradually that you don’t even feel it happening, but after a period of years you suddenly come to an awareness that feeling lousy every day isn’t normal — it may be common, but it isn’t normal.

    You’re very fortunate to have a wife who wants you to be happy. IMO that’s what marriage is all about.

16. Nilesh Jethwa Says:
    January 9th, 2005 at 4:18 pm

    Thats true that nothing stays forever, nothing comes with you when you die. Only thing that comes with you is your Karma ( your good and bad deeds) and the most important of all is your spirituality. I think spirituality is the single most important thing to acquire along with trying to survive in this world. And spirituality is the the toughest to achieve. Requires Constant vigilance and awareness of your self.

17. Thomas Says:
    January 10th, 2005 at 12:52 am

    A little secret I should convey is that there seems to be some force in the universe that will conspire to help you achieve your dreams when you really get yourself aligned with them and moving committedly in that direction. Once you get started on the right path for you, you don’t have to go it alone. I don’t know precisely why this is so, but it just always seems to work that way. When you know you’re doing what you really feel you should be doing, everything just clicks. Even when setbacks occur, right behind them is a new opportunity that turns the setback seem into a stepping stone.

    This force is actually called “Framework 2″ in the Seth-
    material. It is the inner reality which is the source of our world.

18. Vyacheslav Stepanyuchenko Says:
    January 10th, 2005 at 4:14 am

    Hi,

    Your recent post to the blog is great.

    Thank you very much for such a great formulation of thoughts that seem to be so close to my own current state of mind.

    I think it’s just the best speech I have ever heard.
    It’s just plain true wisdom. Really.

    > It’s that one person I’m writing for.

    Yes, you can consider me this one person. I have also sent the link to your blog to some of my friends.

    I tried sending a message to steve@stevepavlina.com,
    but don’t know if this e-mail address works or not…

    Regards,

19. Steve Pavlina Says:
    January 10th, 2005 at 9:47 am

    There are no email addresses setup for this site, but you can always send me a private message through the contact form.

20. JaSoN Says:
    January 10th, 2005 at 6:29 pm

    The Tao that can be named is not the real Tao.

21. Karthik Says:
    January 13th, 2005 at 11:03 am

    Steve’s post certainly rings true to me. I quit a good environmental consulting position to come back to school for a PhD. The pay’s a small fraction of what I used to make, and my definition of ‘eating out’ has suddenly become Taco Bell, but gosh, I’m enjoying every minute of it. And to think I was so nervous to do this …

22. Mike W. Says:
    January 13th, 2005 at 4:33 pm

    I understand completely. About 6 months ago, I quit a job that I absolutely hated, without having another “real” job to go to. I was so miserable there were several times I had to call in sick to work, because I was too depressed to go to work.

    I few months later, I heard about a job opening at a company that, for years, I had wanted to work for. I got the job, and now I enjoy what I do for a living.

23. Deborah M. Says:
    January 15th, 2005 at 3:55 pm

    I can’t believe I found this right now when I needed it most. What a great post Steve.

    My situation: I have recently decided to turn in my 2 week notice at work on this coming Tuesday. My husband is currently unemployed after being layed off but it actively seeking a short term job to help with our income. All we are sure of though is $1000/month that my unemployment will provide. We have no savings.

    I work for the State of Alaska and I simply cannot stand it any longer. Eight hours a day is way to much time to spend being miserable. My income is $57,000/year with full benefits and we’re giving that up so I can have a chance of doing what I love to do in the way I love to do it. I want to write and sell my own software and have always wanted to do so. It is too dificult to write my own software at night after having spent all day in a very toxic work environment. It is poisoning my entire life and it simply must stop immediately.

    I have to confess it is a little scary to simply jump off a cliff with no visible means of support but I have done this before a couple of times and the support is always there. I know this in my heart. Your posting helped remind me of it and reinforce my resolve.

    I read a quote once and I can’t remember who said it right now but…”Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aide”! It’s true.

    Thanks again for the great post and all your articles. You have succeeded in helping me for one.

24. Mary Says:
    April 7th, 2005 at 9:29 am

    Dear Steve, I happened upon this site today and read your blog. It’s comforting to know you are out there with the spirit still in you. Please keep writing. You opened up my mind again and all the giddy enthusiasm that others poke fun of is back. I don’t want to go with the song still in me either. Thanks so much.
    P.S. Here’s a poem I wrote a while back that fits the theme here..
    wait, this was not my intention i must have gotten lost somewhere along the way let me fall quietly to sleep and play in the aftermath of my dreams let me have peace and stay hidden from all I cannot be hold tight gentle soul speak softly and listen to the earth don’t go with your words unsaid breath deep and let out a roar love greatly dance spin your web live with fire beneath your feet fall to your knees kiss the ground embrace what calls to you there is no time no time for folly no time to question just be just be go and just be
    Take care,
    Mary Mary
    Austin, Texas

25. ~ awasu ~ Says:
    April 12th, 2005 at 9:11 pm

    […] I was gobsmacked. It’s really good Best of luck, Paul. You’re going to do pretty well, I think. | Trackback | Per […]

26. Jonathan Says:
    June 5th, 2005 at 2:37 am

    Brilliant Sentiments, good to see that there’s people who still believe in loving life out there

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