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The balance between working to live and living to work is a fundamental choice to be made. If you’re thinking about making a career change in order to build a happier life, the first action step is to find out and define what you find specifically fulfilling.
This might be a hobby, travelling, or finding creativity in an artistic world. It might involve a change of location, such as moving to a rural area, remoteness, mountains, sea, rivers, or living in other countries.…
I met John Norseman in July 2012, introduced via a marina manager to provide yacht maintenance and crew services aboard John’s fifty- five-foot motor yacht, Izafel.
While working on Izafel, I began to get to know John. He would cook lunch onboard and we’d sit down and talk. He soon told me that he was a shaman and asked if I knew what that was.
On Sunday, 19th July, my wife, Leigh, and I were honored to meet an amazing Native American woman of the Haida Nation of Alaska who was to have a profound effect on us. Her name is Saand laanaay, meaning ‘beautiful dawn’, and we found her to be indeed a beautiful soul, who shared her belief system with us and taught us much.
