Started my latest run through the PG course, this time with the absolute intention to complete it to the end.

I've been spending a couple of days on LL1 and whereas before it had just been a case of running through the excercise I'm thinking about it a little deeper this time.

The first four questions are about where you are financially jsut now and how you feel about your financial position.

Question 6 however - If your job, business or other primary income producer evaporated right now, how would you feel and what would you do?

That question 6 I have just realised is a very revealing question and we need to be completely honest with ourselves in answering it. It says a great deal about how we are financially and potentially how far we'd be prepared to go (I mean that in terms of drifting from or remaining on the path of what we truly want rather that considering doing anything unethical) to get money.

Infact I would say until this question 6 and the follwing question 7 are properly resolved there is little point continuing with the rest of the course as I think these are at the very core of what SOGR is about, especially if the answer to Qu 7 is that you hate your job and there is some other work you'd rather be doing.

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Originally posted by JediMaster:
Infact I would say until this question 6 and the follwing question 7 are properly resolved there is little point continuing with the rest of the course as I think these are at the very core of what SOGR is about, especially if the answer to Qu 7 is that you hate your job and there is some other work you'd rather be doing.

Hey JediMaster

Cool to see you going back around again. I think we could probably get some good discussions going since I'm only on lab 15 and enjoying taking my time and even going back now and again over previous labs.

I just pulled out the answers that I did on this lab and jeez, since I haven't looked at it since I started the course 3 months ago, I can see straight away I've come a long way since then.

As for Q.6, well, it's fair to say I'd long given up even wanting to work for anybody else, which is why I spent most of my working life contracting at various physical work as well as occasionally back at my trade. For the last 5 years, I've been doing tertiary studies at university just for something different and I thoroughly enjoyed that. However, I've known since my early twenties that I've always wanted to work for myself or in a business for myself. Alas, other circumstances and life got in the way of that, but now I'm single again and now that I know about TSOGR, I am back on track with that young desire of mine.

Have to say that prior to this course I was looking for a way out of the rut I was in and it came along exactly when I needed it. No doubt about it, I was definitely starting to get low and apathetic about life at the time, which is pretty much what I wrote for Q.6 back then.

As for Q.7, I virtually wrote what I had been feeling for a while at the time and that I couldn't see a a way out of it; that my life was not a living but more of an existance. I agree, even now, with what I wrote back then and now that I've looked back at them, I would have to say that they are similar to the financial aspects of that lab.

Similar in that just as the financials give you a starting point to measure up against in the future, so do Q. 6 & 7 also give you a starting point to measure up against.

As I mentioned earlier, I noticed straight away when looking at Q. 6 & 7 again, at how I felt back then and the change that I feel in me now. I consider both questions as starting points to measure where you've come from and how far you've progressed, in terms of where you started from and realization of your dreams and desires along the journey.

Great to see you posting here.

Blessing
Anaru