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Do You Dread Going to Work?
Success may be killing your happiness . . .
THOUGHTS FROM SHAUN MCCLOSKEY
It’s interesting to see how much
"You should be outworking everyone
I read the ancient text of the wisest man
information in social media today is
around you" and "you can manifest
who ever lived, King Solomon, I realize
deemed as "wow factor" and "new
anything you want" and "you have all
I'm no different (and feel and
wisdom" when so much of it is in fact
the power to control everything!" This
experience nothing different) than the
nothing new at all. Most of the good
nonsense is also seemingly deemed as
men and women that came many
stuff we read today isn't the latest and
wisdom, which is the exact opposite as
centuries before me.
greatest written by some new speaker,
such.
author or coach. Most of it has been around for thousands of years.
King Solomon, to give you an idea, had Some people may challenge me on this,
everything anyone could have ever
thinking that they have the power to
imagined. He had more wealth than
That being said, according to Inc
control everything around them, when
anyone who ever lived. He had his
Magazine, more than 85% of people
in fact, they control very little other than
choice of women, wine, song,
today don’t like their jobs or their roles
their own emotions. Even that is often
entertainment, land, crops, livestock,
in business.
times a stretch.
activities to keep him busy… he had it all. And yet still woke up empty and
How can that be if we are living in the
The farmer can toil the soil, plant the
feeling alone. “…this too is
information age? There’s literally
seeds, tend to the land, keep the
meaningless” came from his mouth as
information and training everywhere
predators away, and yet, if God doesn't
he considered everything he’d worked
we go. Why is it that so many
make it rain, the farmer has no crops. He
so hard to acquire.
people are unfulfilled, waking up each
literally has nothing. He thinks he's in
Monday morning dreading going to
control, and yet he controls very
While Solomon had what most people
their place of business?
little, if anything.
would consider “everything,” he
It's also pretty crazy to see how much
"There is nothing new under the sun"
passion and fulfilling his true purpose
fallacy is being embraced today like
comes to mind - considering every time
for his life lead to an unfulfilled life in
realized that all of these things without
