It's in the Code

It's incredible that I love to write and gather up all my emotions in a nice size glass and let the glass tip over with its contents dripping everywhere, but I don't write that much. I want to and I should but I just don't get to doing it. Lately my thoughts been a collection of fears and if anyone knows me or reads some of my blogs will understand that I am a person who eats fear for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and sometimes it doesn't leave my system.

We all want a job in life that will make us happy and comfortable. The dream situation would be to do something worth while and productive- something your happy about and don't mind driving to every day. A place where you can laugh and work at the same time and know it is ok to do this. And of course, going home feeling proud that you just made a great amount of money to share with your loved ones. Sound nice? I just tapped into your code.

The book I am reading now is called "The Culture code" by Clotaire Rapaille. I think this man is incredibly insightful and inspirational. I am very passionate about the way people think and why they do the things they do. So I guess you can say that I love psychology and even though this book is about marketing and business, a good way of looking at it, is understanding people on a deeper level. To unlock their codes. "The Culture code is the unconsciuos meaning we apply to any given thing" and every culture isn't the same because they understand things and view things differently. The reason for this is imprints. When an emotion becomes so strong, a memory is formed, which leads to a learned experience. An imprint is "the combination of the experience and its accompanying emotion." It changes our thoughts and behavior and ultimatly "helps make us more of who we are." Sure it is about marketing because once you learn the codes for things, you are basically connecting with someone on a level, one that they will understand and relate to.

Getting back on track here, Clotaire desribes the American Culture Code for work as "WHO YOU ARE." Jobs don't just provide you with a way to pay off bills- it gives us life and meaning. But if we are not fulfilled and don't see a job as meangiful, then we would consider ourselves without a real identity. Americans do put a lot of pressure on themsleves and jobs can get overwelming at times but if it is a rewarding job and if "we believe that our jobs have genuine value to the company we work for and that we are doing something worthwhile in our work," it can give us a profound sense of identity.
The loss of a job can be so devastating to a person and make them feel that they are nothing. Maybe this is why when someone asks me where I work or what I want to do, knots in my stomach begin to tighten and the butterflies come swarming in. I don't know exactly what I want to do! This freaks me out. But I know that I want to be something great. I want to inspire the world. I want to work hard and be stressed out, as long as I have a job that makes me happy and proud. And until I get there, I will just have to keep aiming for my dream to come true. But thanks to Clotaire Rapaille, I now know that it is perfectly fine to have these fears. It's one of the American codes we possess. There are many others. Many of us all want the same thing and when we look at all those higher up people that have it, we wonder why we can't have it too. And until then, it is just hard sometimes to untie those knots.