Productivity and happiness, doing and being

Productivity has got me a long way. Combined with a commitment to honor the passions in my life, it's gotten me to where I am now - immersed in a lifestyle, culture, and activities I love. But perhaps a time has come for me to shift my focus back to happiness. If I were to point to a time when I made that transition of values, it'd be a little over four years since I decided "things have got to change, this job (this lifestyle) is killing my soul, I need to put in some work to change my life circumstances and so find the full joy and creativity I know I'm capable of." SO I went forth and produced results - some good, some great, and some dismal failure. But again, after all is said and done, it has gotten me far, gotten me here, to this place - literally and metaphorically - that I love. And I find myself, after riding that drive to productivity, immersed in my passions, my happiness.

Is it time to transition again, from productivity back to happiness? Maybe on the other side, I'll find that mythic place called "flow", where right actions effortlessly follows "right being" - joy, presence, and peace. Or let's say "that natural place" called Flow. Because immersed in passions, practiced in balanced action, shouldn't it be natural for us to fall into a rhythm so effortless it seems magic? When you do what you love, they say, when you surrender to the flow of life, action and stillness, the money will follow. If clearing my debts will rid of stress and give me peace and creative opportunity, I've heard it said that I should first step into Being peaceful, I need to raise of awareness of and appreciation for the boundless opportunity around me now. While I've tried that as a dedicated method - taking on ways of being deliberately - in my general life experience, I prefer that time-weathered maxim "do what you love and the money will follow". And I'm viewing that "money" loosely, more as an energy variable; could be financial, physical, emotional, mental, spiritual. And importantly, as Being. Could it be that right Doing can lead to right Being, not just the other way around? Lends new meaning to the phrase "just do it."

And to sum it up: just be it, just do it, it's all good. Just love it and enjoy it.