Do What You Love The Money Will
Follow
"If you wish to find, you must search. Rarely
does a good idea interrupt you." *-- Jim
Rohn
"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man
perfected without trials." *–– Chinese proverb
"And if it all falls apart, I will know deep in my
heart, the only dream that mattered had come true. In this life, I was
loved by you." *-- Colin Raye
Everyone dreams of a life full of love and adventure.
But we fill ourselves with reasons not to follow our dreams. Instead of
protecting us, they imprison and hold us back. Life will be over before
we know it, so now is the time to really live life and love.
In Life Lessons, Elizabeth Kübler-Ross and David
Kessler suggest that love is the only gift in life that is not lost and
is ultimately the only thing we can really give. Start by loving yourself.
1. Love Yourself. To give love, you must have love. Too
often we put conditions on love. Conditions on love weigh it down and keep
us from loving completely.
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Be Compassionate With Yourself. Don’t judge, criticize or
beat yourself up when you make a mistake. Cut yourself some slack.
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Nurture Your Soul. Do things that make you feel good about
yourself and make you truly glad you did them. Let the love in that’s all
around. Schedule and budget for these nurturing activities; pick something
that will make you feel great and do it!
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Remove Barriers. Let go of conditions you place on giving
and receiving love. Give love freely with no thought of receiving love
in return. Receive love with no conditions or self-criticism. Remember
the Beatles song lyric from The End, “… And in the end, the love you take
is equal to the love you make.”
2. Love What You Do. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, in Flow, the
Psychology of Optimal Experience, identifies eight major components of
enjoying an activity. His studies on flow suggest an activity is enjoyable
when at least one and often all eight components are present.
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Completion. We need tasks with sufficient complexity to challenge
and stretch us to develop our skills but that won’t overwhelm us.
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Concentration. The root of concentrate means to “center”.
We need tasks that allow us to wrap our mind around it and be challenged
by it. Tasks that are too hard will overwhelm us; tasks that are too easy
will bore us.
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Clear Goals. Stephen Covey tells us to begin with the end
in mind, to know what we’d like to accomplish. A clear goal gives us a
specific outcome that our mind can use to discern if we are meeting the
test.
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Feedback. Feedback allows you to compare your outcome to
your goal. It’s a symbolic message that allows you to create order in your
consciousness and shift your efforts if your outcome is off course.
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Deep, Effortless Involvement. Attending fully to what is
happening in the present prevents our mind from filling with extraneous
worries, thoughts and distractions. Applying all your relevant skills to
meeting challenges focuses your attention completely, so you cease being
aware of yourself as separate from your activity. You become one with it;
you act spontaneously.
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Sense of Control. Developing your skills so you can reduce
the margin of error as close to zero as possible and being able to influence
a doubtful outcome produces a sense of exercising control in difficult
situations.
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Self Concern Disappears. Protecting our ego, the image we
hold of ourselves as separate from everything else, requires mental energy.
Enjoyable activities with clear goals, stable rules and challenges well
matched to our skills present no threat to our egos. Immersion in such
activity strengthens our sense of being capable.
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Altered Sense of Time. Immersion in challenging activity
causes how we perceive time to speed up (we look up and 8 hours have passed
without noticing) or slow down (like a batter watching a pitch in slow
motion). Complete involvement frees us from the tyranny of time and deepens
enjoyment.
Pick an activity that has these traits and you’ll love what
you do. Remember this: do what you love the money will follow.
3. Love in Service to Others. In A Simpler Way, Margaret
Wheatley and Myron Kellner-Rogers suggest that any self-expression that
is not meaningful to others is irrelevant and won’t survive in a systems-seeking
world. So expressing what you love in service to others is your task.
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Do What You Love. Identify anything that meets some or all
of the eight criteria listed above for loving what you do. What would you
do if money were not an object? Let your list simmer on the back burner
of your subconscious.
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Combine Activities You Love. List without judging the things
you love to do and how you might combine them. If you love writing, travel
and spirituality, you might consider traveling to spiritual sites and writing
a travel guide on how to get there and what to do once you’re there. Or
consider organizing, marketing and guiding travel tours there. Be creative;
use your imagination!
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Serve Others. As you imagine possible manifestations of the
activities you love, guide your imagination to ways that serve others.
Remember, if you’re going to make a living by doing what you love, you’ll
need others to pay you! Make your offering something others want or need!
Love and treat yourself well, learn
what you love to do and do what you love in a ways that serves the needs
of others! You’ll be glad you did! .
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