Informed by the work of her colleague Abraham Maslow, Barbara Marx Hubbard suggests that “vocational arousal” occurs when you are doing chosen work and take self-rewarding action that is both “intrinsically valuable to your own growth and simultaneously of service to others.”
Said another way, I believe that such arousal ensues when enlightened self-interest intersects with a contribution to the greater good. Further broadening the concept, one could say that finding such bliss is not contingent on vocational application at all.
However we spend our time when we are rightly aligned mentally, emotionally and spiritually (Maslow dubbed such a state “self-actualization”) I believe that we are instinctively motivated do our part to make the world a better place.
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive”.
~ Howard Thurman
Cosmic Gardener - Cultivating a Life 