“It’s important to think about that time and place and activity where you shine, where you feel most alive.”*

Glory is such a short word for something so full of magnificence and beauty.

It was a year ago when I first reflected on the quote, above.  It reminded me of what I love to do.  One year later, I find them to be more true one year later – the point they are making.  We must focus on the things we most love to do.

I juxtapose this idea from Roz and Ben Zander:

‘Gracing yourself responsibility that happens in your life leaves your spirit whole, and leaves you free to choose again.’**

I found myself thinking back to a moment when I decided to blame no-one and no thing for being close to burning out; instead, I took responsibility for what I had and hadn’t done.  It turned out to be the beginning of an incredible journey which continues today, which finds me journeying from the general to the specific, and sometimes the only word to describe this is glory.^

‘Obsessively socialise.  No niche is too small if it’s yours.’^^

(*Jacqueline Novogratz, quoted by Warren Berger’s A More Beautiful Question.)
(**From Rosamund and Benjamin Zander’s The Art of Possibility.)
(^Scott Peck uses the word glory when describing the fourth stage of community,I his book The Different Drum.)
(^^From Seth Godin’s Whatcha Gonna Do With That Duck?)