Late Summer Wine and an Extraordinary Question
Posted by Steve Munroe | Under Life Sunday Apr 27, 2008
How to live an extraordinary life?
Last year on a lovely late summers evening, I remember sitting outside in the warm glow of an early evening sun. I was sharing a few glasses of wine with some friends after another day at work and, despite the beautiful early evening weather, the subject turned to work. The question was asked how it was possible to remain fresh and alive in the face of the grueling grind of the 9-5 work-a-week circus. We discussed the topic for a while but eventually drifted off onto other, more amenable (less hopeless?) subjects. Since then, I’ve found myself asking the same question more and more often, but in different ways. Do I really want to be dragging myself to work 5 days a week from now until I retire. And, if not, how can I change things. What is my relationship to work anyway? Is it something I could one day come to love? Is work the problem, or is my attitude to work the problem? All of these questions relate and are perhaps summed up by a larger, more encompassing question, one that has become more and more insistent of late, “How can I live an extraordinary life?”. To me, this question hinges on the ability to be innovative. Both in the small details about how I live and work right now and in the larger perspective of how I go about planning the life I want to lead. This blog is a record of how I begin to explore the possibilities for innovation in order to change the way I see and live my life.
