Reflecting on Your “Life Rhythm”
Have you taken the time to reflect on your “life rhythm” and how it pertains to your career path and major life decisions?
The story of Chris Bailey reminded me how important it is to do that.
After a career in corporate banking and realizing it wasn’t his “thing”, Bailey walked into Vancouver’s Stanley Park at age 40 in 1990 and never left, realizing that he was much more suited to a creative life.
He uses the forest as his muse for his art, telling Global News that he chose to move into the forest for his “quest for mind. To look at influences of the peace and quiet of the forest on creativity.” He lives in a tent surrounded by art, supplies, musical instruments, and flowers.
While in our own life’s journey we may not all trade our corporate careers for a life of solitude and creativity and pick up and move into the forest, one thing that Bailey said in his interview really stuck with me: “People are successful in fields when, I feel, they have the best element — when what they’re about — their innate, intuitive intelligence — has found a way to study something (and) refine it. And their natural vibe, their rhythm. Their life rhythm clicks.”
Life rhythm.
Bailey’s story helped me reflect on a colourful, diverse, rewarding career and the things that have weaved through the entire journey; the things that really light a fire in my soul.
The topics that ignite me, the issues that stick with me, and the values I carry into my work and my life. The consistent, persistent forces within me, that guide my decisions and actions as I carry out the vow I made to myself of “to thine own self be true”. As Bailey calls it, my “innate, intuitive intelligence”.
I’m happy to say that my life rhythm is something I can be proud of, even if it hasn’t always been easy to navigate or present to the world. I know it’ll guide me strongly into a rewarding future.
Now at 74, the city is working to help Bailey relocate as a hemlock looper moth is leading to the unfortunate cutting down of the trees that made up Bailey’s home for 34 years.
I’d encourage you to read the story of Chris Bailey, and hope it resonates with you as much as it does with me and that it encourages you to look into your own life rhythm and your innate, intuitive intelligence.
Here is the story: https://globalnews.ca/news/10433633/stanley-park-vancouver-longest-resident-next/
Anne-Marie E. Fischer, BA (Hons), M.Ed., blends her passion for the written word with her vocation to create a better world through effective communications, education, and Community Based Research (CBR).
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