ACTIVITY: WHAT DO YOU DO FOR A LIVING?

What do you currently do for a living? Write it down:

 

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NOTE: Don’t read on until you have written down your answer.

 

What did you write? Did you put down sales executive, area manager, apprentice plumber, tree surgeon, town planner, activist or architect?

Did you write down your job? Your occupation? Your source of income?

Why? Why did you write that? Why do most people think that what they do for income is what keeps them alive.

It’s not! What keeps you alive is not your job title.

If you ask an American Inuit tribesman what he does for a living he will look at you strangely and say, “I breathe.”

At least in the short term. After that I guess he will need some water, some good ...

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