Repurpose Your Life : Master The Seven Works The Key To Creating Conscious Change and Working Your Why: Work Life Wide Open, #3

By Richard Conner

Sick and tired of the endless, meaningless drudgery?

Are you done with the relentless Busy Work that consumes your days, evenings, and weekends?

 

Crave space, time, flexibility, and freedom to do the Real Work you want to do when you want to do it?

Longing to spend more time with your family and friends?

 

Without being, thinking, and feeling like you should be elsewhere, working all the hours God sends?

 

Life without purpose, no matter how much money you have, robbed of time, energy, and enthusiasm to embrace the inherent magnificent glory of it, is no life at all.

Get to the subtle root of Why the life you're following is not your own.

The Seven Works is a simple, flexible work-life-change blueprint tailored to your unique life context and life content. It shows you how to lead the way to do more of what you love and less of what you don't with significantly reduced inner and outer life conflict.

Master it and you'll enjoy the time, energy, clarity, passion, and motivation to always do what matters to you most, spiritually, personally, at home with family, at work, and in your business.

In Repurpose Your Life you'll learn how to:
 

• Eliminate stress, anxiety and overwhelm
• Synchronise your life's work to serve you
• Make time to change your life
• Achieve more by doing less
• Focus on what matters to you most
• Be more productive, efficient and effective
• Stop procrastination for good
• Consistently reach your goals
• Step beyond work-life balance conflict
• Nurture greater peace of mind and body
• Supercharge your decision-making ability
• Enjoy more time and space to be creative
• Increase your clarity, confidence, and creative freedom
• Maintain a creative state of flow no matter what's happening
• Overcome that 'I don't know what to do with my life' problem
• Increase your clarity, confidence, freedom
• Know your purpose in life and the moment
• Become increasingly more purpose-driven in life
• Navigate transformational change like a ninja
• Work on your life instead of just in it
• Improve and deepen your relationships
• Connect to your self and your Real Work

 

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Transformerpreneur
• Release date: Oct 15, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386439028

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Repurpose Your Life

Repurpose Your Life

Master The Seven Works The Key To Creating Conscious Change and Working Your Why

Richard Conner

Transformerpreneur

To those that bring me close and take me far.

‘It is fatal to know too much at the outset. Boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as the novelist who is over-certain of his plot.’

Paul Thoreau

Contents

Your Money Future

Preface

Notes

Self

Introduction

High Definition Life

The Projected Ideal

Technological Disorder

Broken Blueprint

I. The Master Works | Ignorance Isn't Bliss

1. The Master Works

2. Busy Work vs Real Work

3. Riding Work Edges

4. The Seven Works

5. Necessary Evils

6. Double Infidelity

7. Disconnected Relationships

II. Extreme Changeology | Redefining Works

8. Letting Go

9. Significant Life Change

10. Warrior Cultivation

11. Redefining Works

12. The Real Works

13. The Support Works

14. The Busy Works

III. Active Life Prioritisation | Work Your Why

15. Projected Ideal Response

16. Work Profiles

17. Sliding Service Scale

18. You Outlook

19. Work Your Why

20. Unlimited Power Cell

21. The Creative Loop

Conclusion

Creative vs Reactive

The Power Seven

Feedback Loop

Your Money Future

Also By The Author

About The Author

Acknowledgments

Copyright

Disclaimer

Contact

Glossary

Your Money Future

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Preface

Old Beginnings

I was the managing director of a successful, professional consultancy, headquartered in London. It was co-founded officially with two of my closest and longest-standing friends around the turn of the millennium. The business was born during a three to four-year incubation period while the partners worked their respective day jobs.

As co-leaders of an international creative agency, we had to navigate the extremes of relentless economic turmoil. We were forced keep pace with the fast moving, disruptive development of marketing communication technology and online content creation strategies and techniques.

Like many businesses leading into and out of the crash of 2008, it was hustle or die. We had to quickly and regularly identify, often pre-empt, but always implement significant change to restructure and reorganise to compete, survive and after much hard work eventually thrive and prosper.

Before this, and in parallel, I was also co-founder and co-director, with the same partners, of an award-winning architectural practice. Under the leadership of my former co-director since my departure during late 2009 it too matured into a successful focussed in-demand creative consultancy business.

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Stark Contrast

In stark contrast to the relentless bustle of the agency’s London HQ in Shoreditch, its international studios, and my architect designed London Fields two bedroom apartment my life has taken a seemingly sudden and abrupt change.

Now, I live in a cave, my jungle home on a small island off mainland Thailand, surrounded by nature, in peace and calm. I have for the moment, a relative abundance of time, energy, focus, and space to work on what I want and feel passionately drawn to, when I want to. Including me, my self, and I.

In the past I might have used this space and freedom frantically working to get a new or long-forgotten project off the ground. Or, I’d scrabble around trying to launch a new business, all without skipping a beat, to secure an income and stay ahead of the game.

Typically this would all happen without a moment’s break or pause for real thought and feeling investigation into what I truly wanted to do with and become in my life.

Most importantly these seemingly wayward entrepreneurial endeavours were missing a deeply meaningful Why.

This time, at long last, my approach was intentionally different.

Notes

Overhwelm

Throughout the Work Life Wide Open series ‘overwhelm’ will be used in noun form. According to the Oxford English Dictionary it has been used as such since at least 1596.

It will be used, firstly, as shorthand for the life, work, and relationally overwhelming circumstances, situations and contexts we sometimes find ourselves immersed in.

And, secondly, to define the psychological and emotional impact we experience as a result of this ‘overwhelm’.

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Overlap

To help ensure each book within the Work Life Wide Open Series is as accessible and useful as possible it is necessary to establish a conceptual base understanding for new readers.

As such, please assume there will be 5%-15% of overlapping content between books. This serves to reintroduce and remind the reader of key foundational concepts relevant to each book’s core content and message. I hope you welcome and accept this repetition in the spirit it is intended.

Self

To Self

Throughout this book I will use ‘your self’ and ‘our self’ to refer to that part of us that inherently knows, consciously or not, the most authentic truth behind what we really want and need in life.

For clarity, ‘yourself’ and ‘ourself’ will refer to the individual relative to an external factor, influence, or context.

For example, we may be too distracted to feel what we are experiencing at a physical and emotional level within our bodies. As a result, we often avoid, deny or delay the need to consider, take, and make life-changing decisions and actions.

We postpone finding and exploring what we genuinely want to do, be, and experience to a far-off future. We forget ‘our selves’.

Conversely, we may have to convince ‘ourselves’ that breaking a bad habit is good for us, i.e. ‘our selves’ and those around us.

Throughout the book consider working with ‘your self’ as an internally referenced experience and working for ‘yourself’ as a predominantly externally referenced experience.

Introduction

High Definition Life

In a world of excessive overwhelm, increasing busyness and a lack of truth and integrity few would deny that many amongst us are disorientated and questioning our purpose in life. We agonise over the value we are giving, or not giving. We regularly examine and question our contribution to our partners, our families and the local and global community we are continually co-creating.

We are lost whether to spend more time on our work life to make ends meet and be of value to the world or to focus more on our personal life so that we have something of value to come home to after working so hard. We are in conflict, caught between a healthy desire to give more and an insecure need to get more.

We pursue more in a vain attempt to make us feel better about and cover up the disconnection we feel from our selves, our creativity and our most meaningful work. Our disconnected, often chaotic life experience reminds us daily that we are not getting what we want out of life from our relationships and the things we possess.

In the main, the things we do are merely ways to entertain ourselves until the next metaphorical ready meal swings by on the conveyor belt of distraction. As easily as we can select something else from the menu if we’re not satisfied we can, and will, choose an updated phone or a new car as readily as we’ll change jobs, careers or romantic interest.

The throw-away society we have fostered is the perfect breeding ground for distraction. The underlying problem we refuse to see is that in these superficial changes we take ourselves with us. We are the common denominator. 

At the deepest heartfelt level of our endless search for the next best, we yearn for connection, fulfilment, freedom, happiness, satisfaction, truth and meaning on a consistent basis. At some deep level we expect these wholesome rewards. It’s as if they’re hard-wired. If we recognise these attributes as missing in our lives, we are disconnected whether we acknowledge or accept it in ourselves or not. In our never-ending attempts to find and acquire these seemingly elusive qualities of the good life we blindly look not to our selves but elsewhere.

We focus our attention out there to try and get everything we think we need and want in here as fast as we possibly can. We work and play hard no matter the cost to our physical, mental and emotional wellbeing. As a result, the health of our immediate environment and the beloved planet we are privileged, for the moment to call home are in severe jeopardy.

We know we must make a stand and create meaningful change. Yet still, we demand more life content and bigger and better things. All of this unnecessary stuff distracts us further from the truth we don’t want to see.

We are lost, without a meaningful story to guide us.

Take Hollywood by way of analogy. The quality of the computer-generated (CG) effects in a movie, no matter how real it looks, isn’t enough. If the story isn’t up to scratch we will be disappointed. We will feel like we wasted our time and money and so did the film studio that produced it.

Now, consider this waste of resources on a grander scale, and you have our current life context. This big glossy high budget production has plenty of action, disruption and catastrophe. At times this disaster movie can be so exciting and enthralling that we watch it day in and day out, on repeat. We wait for the story to take a substantial twist or turn, but it doesn’t.

The problem is not that the situations in our day to day lives or those played out on the world stage don’t ever change. It’s that they don’t change significantly. They improve just enough to keep us in our seats or glued to our devices, watching and waiting, encouraging us to do little else but keep doing so we can keep getting. We don’t get up off our behinds and work to create our movie and live our own story.

We keep watching the screen as if it’s the only channel and the only thing worth watching. We do the same with our lives. We wouldn't change the channel even if we wanted to because we don’t know what’s on the other side.

In the not knowing is fear. We continually let the belief system we have subscribed to, that we are not enough and that we can’t make a real change and a big difference, rob us of our life passion, creativity, meaning, happiness and joy.

It has become so natural for us to look to technology and work of any and all kinds to fill this gaping hole that constant distraction and denial of our true feelings has left in our lives.

Ironically, both work and technology promote themselves within our culture as the solution to the problem they propagate; you’re disconnected from everyone and everything so get more ‘connected’ to feel better and stay that way.

Work harder and longer to earn your security and flexibility to do what you want when you want. Of course, this propaganda distracts us from our self still further.

Even the word connection has become so bastardised and dehumanised its very mention puts the only ‘real’ solution firmly out there, out of reach. These solutions are touted as the external cure-all to an all internal dis-ease.

The High Definition Life represents the incredibly fast changing technological and natural context we have all been and continue to be party to creating, using and abusing.

We have allowed it for good or bad to pervade our lives and both our natural and artificial worlds.

As a result, we suffer conflict and chaos, internally and externally, directly and indirectly, locally and globally. This disorder arises out of the underlying disruption, turmoil, exploitation and manipulation of the natural world, ourselves included, from which the technology itself and consequently the work we so rely on for our livelihood, wellbeing and would be purpose spring forth.

The inherent chaos and disorder of the High Definition Life are undeniably created by our undisciplined pursuit of more. The resulting overwhelm we experience is compounded by our constant irrational need to keep doing more and more meaningless work to fuel this mindless pursuit.

We tenaciously believe, this work, no matter what it is or whether or not it makes us truly happy, will get us where we want to go, irrespective of the cost to us and the environment.

Where do we want to go you cry?

To freedom of course, from the overwhelming, stressful and chaotic technology driven High Definition Life that we created to solve our disconnection problem in the first place.

The Projected Ideal

The Whole Story

The High Definition Life is neither good nor bad in itself. It is it just a component part of the whole story.

Believing through ignorance or denial that the High Definition Life controls our lives and it is the only way to live is blindly subscribing to an Idyllic Illusion.

This ideal projection is perfectly tailored to pacify you, keeping you from living your life as creatively and fully as you want.

The High Definition Life, aka the Chaotic Ideal, coexists alongside the other primary influencers within our lives, the Cultural Ideal and the Custom Ideal.

Each of these as they feature most prominently in your life is known as a Prevailing Ideal Component.

The Projected Ideal (Prevailing Ideal Component Triad)

The Prevailing Ideal Component Triad

The High Definition Life ‘Chaotic Ideal’ is informed by and represents the Technological Order and the Natural Order. The ‘Chaotic Ideal’ is the future encroaching on the present.

The Non-Personal ‘Cultural Ideal’ is the inherited local, national and global historical and current socio-political and cultural framework. We all consciously or unconsciously adhere to the 'Cultural Ideal', most of the time. The ‘Cultural Ideal’ is the past influencing the present.

The Personal ‘Custom Ideal’ reflects the interaction between our inner world and outer world intrapersonally and interpersonally. It colours what we think, and are led to believe, we need, want and deserve to be happy and fulfilled.

The ‘Custom Ideal’ represents how we feel and what we think about the past and the future, now. It distracts us from and distorts our individual present moment experience.

All of these Prevailing Ideal Components combine to form your Projected Ideal, your view and belief system that dictates how the world and your life should be, according to you. It encompasses your relationship to the content of your life as well as the context.

However, where this Projected Ideal doesn’t align with your reality and most authentic truth surrounding what you want to do and be in the world inner and outer conflict can and will most likely arise. If ignored or not dealt with holistically this conflict can lead to a stream of seemingly never-ending negative Ideal Outcomes (aka problems, knock-backs, missed opportunities and unwanted situations and experiences).

‘Master The Seven Works - Repurpose Your Life’ touches on all of the Prevailing Ideal Components while focussing mainly on the Custom Ideal which is governed primarily by our relationship with our self and others.

My aim is to lead the reader to a more ordered, balanced and consciously creative state of purposeful being and doing within the High Definition Life.

Technological Disorder

Technology for the most part, until it proves otherwise, is failing us. We have created a system that leaves us always on to the external world convincing us we are more connected when the opposite is true. In this way, the High Definition Life presents a new and ever-changing challenging life context. It continues to promote the Idyllic Illusion we are all striving toward and unknowingly addicted to as the only attractive and viable solution.

At the same time as providing us with countless options to upgrade our lives to give us greater connection it also acts as a comforter to soften the landing when disappointment and disillusion born of ignoring our selves inevitably hit home.

Ironically we experience these letdowns regardless of whether our idea of an ideal High Definition Life comes to pass or not. The money, title, position, partner, and objects of our desire rarely, if ever, deliver more than a superficial short-lived pleasure response.

To work hard all or even just part of our life, doing something that doesn’t light our fire for a future reward that provides only a fleeting moment of satisfaction is madness.

According to the oft-used Albert Einstein quote, doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result is insane. Few would argue against these observations, yet we persist.

In living a disconnected life, we are distracted by getting everything and anything we can from others and the world to make ourselves feel better to the point of addiction. Like a hopeless insatiable drug addict, we crave that external quick fix.

This hit purportedly releases us from all the internal conflict, disillusion, dissatisfaction and lost feelings that we endure, in silent desperation. It promises to make us feel connected and whole. It reflects only what we think we want, not what we truly need to expand and grow.

In chasing these 'magic pills', we are more overworked, busier and less creative than ever before. However, do not despair, in the depths of the rising tide of chaos there is a glimmer of hope. While the High Definition Life shows no signs of abating, within this sea of overwhelm is hidden the solution to our trouble and strife as well as everybody else’s.

Little do we realise we’ve been hoodwinked until now and have been looking in the wrong place for answers all along. Yes, we are dissatisfied, unfulfilled and unhappy with our lives.

Herein lies the route to our solution.

Why would we go there you ask? It’s what we don’t want to feel and experience. It is what we are avoiding through all of this distraction. Yet, we can learn how to see it for what it is and feel it. When we do we no longer have to search everywhere and anywhere for half-baked answers that only take us further down the rabbit hole of the endless search.

Rather than deny our lost feelings exist, with work we can use this negative energy, these demons and dragons that reside out of sight, out of mind, in our shadows and dungeons to spur us into creating significant change in our life and work. Beyond the inner and outer turmoil lies resistance to our creative instinct.

When we access this core of our being and surrender our resistance to change, it will come at a very personal level. Once we have re-established this connection to our self, we can work outwards and meet the world from a position of integrity and strength. This special power is always available to us and will make a positive long lasting impact way beyond our own lives.

Technology, cannot do this work for us. It works from the outside in and only serves to compound and accentuate our disconnection problem. We need to take a different route, a path that only we can tread. We must work from the inside out and learn to know our selves and our Ideal Context we exist within intimately.

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Ingrained Boredom

We wonder why we are surrounded by impatience, frustration, anger, conflict and turmoil. At a deep level, this is because we are bored with life. More specifically with our own lives.

We have made everyone else’s life far more interesting than our own to the extent that we’ll do anything to get a piece of their action. We do this by standing or sitting around staring at little windows into everyone and anyone else’s movie while ignoring what’s going on right here, right now, in our world.

We’ll spend a third to half of our lives doing something we don’t want to be doing so we’ll have the time and money to keep watching someone else’s story unfold in the other half. It doesn’t matter if this story is real or imaginary we’ll devour it regardless.

We will even go