How Can I Serve Today?

This is a good thing to ask yourself when you wake up each morning, and also at times throughout the day. Who is it that you should live your life to serve you ask? I would say God, only many people are conflicted about that word. So to make it easier I’ll add another letter and turn it into Good. What we should all be asking ourselves each morning is how we can serve and contribute to the good in the world.

It’s difficult to get through the day sometimes at my job, because I don’t see the point in what I do. Basically I pay people’s insurance bills for them. It is not interesting or challenging in the least bit, nor is it inspiring. But I’m trying to see it as a means to an end, that being my continuation on the path of yoga which will eventually lead to my teaching and inspiring others, my contribution to the good. This helps sometimes to get me through a rough day, but other times it’s not enough. The soul-crushing nature of my job sometimes overwhelms me.

What can I do on days like this? I could dig deeper. I could see the pile of insurance bills on my desk not as just more busy work and an insult to my intelligence, but rather as a way for me to serve the goodness in the world. By making sure my clients’ bills are paid in a timely fashion, I am ensuring that their future claims will be taken care of. By working on a data entry project that I find ridiculous and beneath me, I am contributing to an effort to ease miscommunication between my department and the real estate department. However minor these things are in the grand scheme, they are a way for me to do my part. And by consciously changing my attitude about them I allow myself to open up to the greater possibilities of life and service while at the same time easing my way toward the 4:15 bell.