Our Highest Work

"Our Highest Work" is a podcast, hosted by George Kao, whose mission is to gather, share, and inspire the best ideas for spiritually-based business growth, and to build a global community of wise & loving mutual support.

Our hope is that every time you hear this podcast, you feel inspired, encouraged, uplifted, and a little wiser about how to live into your highest potential!

To receive news about our content & community, visit:
http://www.OurHighestWork.com

It has been created to benefit Coaches (Life, Career, Business, Executive, Relationship, Spirituality, Health), Healers (Energy, Holistic), and Leaders (Managers, Executives).

There are many podcasts about business, career, sales, marketing. Others cover spiritual growth, personal development. Still others cover how to make the world a better place (e.g. mindful activism).

Here, we aim to integrate all three facets (business, spirituality, and making the deepest positive difference that we can.)

Topics that we discuss include:

Right Livelihood
Life Purpose
True Service
Joyful Productivity
Time Management
Habit Change
Energy Optimization
Conscious Money Flow
Personal Development
Better Coaching
Creating New Life Patterns
Ethical Entrepreneurship
Compassionate / Authentic Marketing
Growing in Virtues & Values
Mindful Activism / Volunteering
Spirituality / Spiritual Growth

How we define Our Highest Work depends on what each soul needs to uniquely learn in this life. As the host of this podcast, I currently define it as "Our highest work is learning how to making the world a better place, and in process, become wiser and more loving people."

I also believe that it's important to be clear what is *not* our highest work. In that light, I found the following passage to be very inspiring:

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From Brian Johnson's summary of a book "Why We Do What We Do" by Edward Deci

“The researchers found that if any of the three extrinsic aspirations—for money, fame, or beauty—was very high for an individual relative to the three intrinsic aspirations, the individual was also more likely to display poorer mental health.

For example, having an unusually strong aspiration for material success was associated with narcissism, anxiety, depression, and poorer social functioning as rated by a trained clinical psychologist...

In contrast, strong aspirations for any of the intrinsic goals—meaningful relationships, personal growth, and community contributions—were positively associated with well-being. People who strongly desired to contribute to their community, for example, had more vitality and higher self-esteem. When people organize their behavior in terms of intrinsic strivings (relative to extrinsic strivings) they seem more content—they feel better about who they are and display more evidence of psychological health.”

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This podcast and community is my legacy -- what I wish most to contribute to this world. My experience is as a wisdompreneur, info product / online course creator, and a reformed internet marketer who now wishes to inspire the world toward generative stability (instead of compulsive spending), infinite generosity (instead of legitimized selfishness and "what's in it for me"), and purposeful kaizen (continuous meaningful improvement.)

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Finally, here is an inspirational quote from one of my heroes:

"Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny." ~Mahatma Gandhi

To receive news about Our Highest Work, visit:
http://www.OurHighestWork.com