This Wildly Inspired
Adventure Called By Tama Kieves
This is what I want you to know and maybe someday take to the streets like a liberated fool:
You’re meant to succeed in the work you love. Your desire will take you all the way. Welcome, to this amazing frontier of good.
I don’t know about you, but I didn’t want to just “follow my bliss.” I wanted to follow my bliss, say to a bank, or to a bestseller list, or to some kind of explosive expression in the world. It had never been my dream to leave my law practice to end up as an incompetent entrepreneur or a starving artist. But I also didn’t leave one falsely successful life, only to turn myself into a sock puppet again, swallow my spirit, and “get with the program” so I could “make it in the big time.”
I was going for the holy grail of wild success, the deluxe spirit package, passion, sweetness, and inspired prosperity. I wanted creative independence and se- curity, worldly fanfare and peace of mind and the experience that
martinis—but I wasn’t sure how to create this “everything comes together” life.
Yes, I’d practiced law and maybe I should have known how to project business goals in the
“ Will you honor your Inspi the one who talks you dow persuades you to adj
abundance came from doing the work I came to do, the way I came to do it. The only problem was, I could name my desires until the cows came home—and kicked back with Netflix, cud, and apple
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“real world.” But, truth is, I have a poet-philosopher’s heart and tend to process life in metaphors and fires-in-the-belly, more than data and numbers. While I’m ambitious and logical, I’m also part rebel,
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