New motivational paradigm for career building while on the Nondual path?

[graded24]

Hi

I guess you know what I am going to ask. It's the universal problem. Any suggestions, new ways of thinking, references would be welcome. 

I am in an academic career. It is not a 9 to 5 job I can 'just do on the side' mindlessly. I need to be very proactive. Initiate projects, collaboration, think creatively etc. It was hard enough with the egoic way of working.  And now to make it worse, the old sticks and carrots paradigm of motivation is just not working.  Like it or not, purely egoic way of looking at life is pretty efficient in professional competition and advancing in a career. Granted you are suffering the whole way, but still.. it gets things done. 
Of course I dont want to go back to it. I cant even if i tried to. I am on the Nondual path now. Not free of ego yet, but I can see through the movement of egoic thoughts. They dont have the same hold over me as they used to. It is great in every aspect of life. A general happiness without a cause has started pouring in and I dont  need to have frequent points of success to find happiness. That's all great, but at some point, you also need to work. But I find myself listening to and reading nondual stuff, contemplating etc way more than I should. At this rate, I wont survive at all in my profession.

I wonder if other people have gone through something similar and have a useful way of looking at it. How can I formulate a motivation that is sustainable, forceful enough and consistent with nondual practices on the side. 
Thanks 

[aurum]

@graded24

Going to move this to the Life Purpose, Career section.

Look, the reality is that sometimes spiritual awakening means letting go of old jobs or careers. You're changing, and that's going to affect every area of your life.

And change is not always convenient, and that's part of why we resist it.

You might hit a point where there is just no reconciling the two. You might be forced into a new job or career that is more in alignment, maybe because you slack off and get fired. I don't know.

Or maybe there's a way you can bring your new values into the career you currently have. That could happen too.

My point is that from reading your post, it sounds like you want to change, but you don't want what change actually entails. But it doesn't work like that. So I would open up to the possibility that you might have to make more radical shifts than you previously thought.