In this video, I talk about the importance of following your bliss. We all have a unique gift that we can offer to the world and when we're doing what we love, we're in our flow. This is when we're happiest and most productive. So find out what your bliss is and start following it! You won't regret it.
The video opens by asking whether following your bliss would change your life, cause loss of control, or disrupt daily responsibilities. It frames common fears and curiosities about acting on joy.
The presenter explores how to follow bliss within a job, among friends and family, and by acting with love and compassion in everyday interactions. This section encourages seeing bliss as integrated into normal life rather than separate.
The speaker situates this talk as part two of a series and recalls part one’s hero’s journey idea, then acknowledges that stepping outside your usual self can be scary but leads to transcendence. They describe practical benefits like increased service, opportunities, and synchronicities when you follow your bliss.
This part gives granular examples of following bliss—walking into sunshine, savoring a work Zoom call, taking deep breaths—and emphasizes that following bliss can be practical rather than dramatic. It highlights how small actions can illuminate your being and inspire others.
The video closes with a concrete call to action: try following your bliss for the next five minutes and notice where it leads, then share the results. The speaker signs off after inviting viewers to experiment with this brief practice.
What would happen if you followed your bliss for the rest of the day? How would your life change? Would the wheels come off? Would you lose control if you followed your bliss? Could you follow your bliss within what you still have to do on a given day? How can you follow your bliss within your job? How can you follow it with your friends, your family, your loved ones? How can we follow our bliss? How can we do things with love and compassion that we do every day? I encourage you to try following your bliss.
This is part two of my Aspire to Inspire series. And in part one, we talked about the hero's journey and how we can ask ourselves, what would the hero of our story do next? Similarly, we can ask what ways can I follow my bliss? And I just encourage you to have the joy of hopping outside of who you are and what you typically do. And this can be scary. This scares me some of the time. But by expanding our sense of self and doing what brings us joy, We transcend who we are and we enter into new territories and we're able to be of more service, more helpful, more opportunities come, more synchronicities arise when we follow our bliss.
So I encourage you to try following your bliss in a new way today. And it can look like so many different things. for me, it could be walking out into the sunshine, really get down to the granular level, to the moment to moment, the microscopic stuff and ask, how can I follow my bliss? right now. It could be just on a work Zoom call instead of getting stressed or thinking about the next thing. It could be to just enjoy it, enjoy the moment, enjoy your coworkers, take some deep breaths and just try to be there.
Following your bliss doesn't necessarily need to be dropping everything you do, singing kumbaya and running naked through the streets. That's probably not necessarily following your bliss, right? It can be much more practical. And in a way, it's maybe the most practical thing that you can do because it enlightens your own being and gives others the permission to follow their bliss as well. So what is a way that you can follow your bliss in the next five minutes? Don't make this an hour or a day or even anything, just in the next five minutes.
Take 5 minutes and follow your bliss. Where does it lead you? Please let us know what happens when you follow your bliss. Okay, talk to you later. Bye-bye.
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