A few quotes from the conversation:
Linda: One of the go to questions for me, is does this move me towards or away from my life mission? Other questions I've asked myself are what's good about this? And how am I being called to show up in this moment? Ultimately, having a Way, having questions of why, what and who ground me and give me give my life a sense of purpose, no matter what's going on in my life. So this Way is like a beacon, it is like a navigation beacon within me, that brings me back to what's really important even on stirred up days.
Christine: I couldn't help but smile when I felt the different levels of a game, like what character am I in this love of the game that I'm in? And who am I with, in this game of life that I'm in? The game that I'm playing is this game of what is my life mission? What is our life mission? Who am I becoming more? Why am I a part of this? And it became deeper in the quest. I felt like a real explorer in the love of the game that I'm a part of, and it's been a dominant note in my life.
Carissa: The love of of the game has this feeling of being willing to think outside the box and being willing to try new things and to learn from the other person and being willing to be in the game. And to stay in the game for the love of the game. To not be focused so much on wins and losses; it's continually improving inside the game..I think there's many levels to it.
Daniel: In the time honored tradition of day jobs, there was always the question of yes, being able to pay bills, of moving through college, and now you're entering the work world. And asking, what are the skills I would need if this was what I was going to do to make my living all day long every day? What skills would I need? So being very intentional about what would you do for the love of the game. Doing the day jobs that would give me those skills, even if I wasn't totally fascinated with that as a line of work. Always knowing that ultimately where I was going to.
There was a significant part of my earlier life that was about getting to that place where the game that I love, that I wanted to be my whole life was now what I was doing full time and I’ve been doing a full-time, "all in", only life mission work for the plus side of 40 years. But that didn’t happen immediately.
I was all in on that and once there was the ‘okay this is what I’m doing', this is my life -- I don’t separate that out as to career and non-career and this is when I’m doing my work and this is when I’m not--I have a full life--I have recreation kind of activities, I have a family and all that stuff and because it’s for the ‘love of the game’, it’s my whole life.
Then having reached that, it is the ongoing development and being present to the other people I notice in the world who are, I might say, doing what they’re doing for the love of the game and watching how that process works. Life will give you lots of opportunities for different expressions of the game that you love.
If you’re doing what you’re doing for the love of the game there is no point at which you would want to retire. That phrase of going out with your boots on, that's definitely me. Up until the last moment, I would hope that I'm contributing to people doing what they came to do and for the love of the game. So it's been a life of doing what I do for the love of that game. And it's worth all the things you would do for the love of the game.
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