Every day there are posts on social media and my email box is bombarded with messages about “do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life”. Work is work whatever way you look at it – right!
Can you genuinely love working and miss it when you can’t?
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A Typical Work Day
I’m one of those people who absolutely love working. I also, love a lifestyle that sees me work for only a few hours a day and that is by choice.
For 4 days per week, a typical day for me is to be at the computer early in the morning researching, learning, writing and creating courses. I take a break for breakfast and a walk along the coast. Then it’s back on the computer for a couple more hours. Seven evenings a month I’m on coaching calls with clients. I spend the rest of the time as I choose with my husband, my daughter and her partner, reading, relaxing and enjoying a tranquil lifestyle and the Spanish culture.
Work is built around my lifestyle and is easily changeable.
Two years ago, the unthinkable happened. A routine check at the optician found I had inherited the same eye problems as my mother. Within 6 months I was totally blind in one eye with the other eye deteriorating rapidly and surgery was needed if my sight was to be saved.
Work was slowly reduced to limited coaching calls just 3 nights a month. The lifestyle remained mostly unchanged. Reading became listening to audiobooks. Apart from that I still maintained the lifestyle that had been created. I was still doing what I enjoyed the most – time with family
Are You Doing What You Love
At the start of this blog, I asked “Are you doing what you love?”
Next time you see the phrase – do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life, remember this phrase usually requires some form of work. There is still a commitment, a constraint around having to work, usually on a daily basis, even if it is enjoyable.
When you genuinely do what you love, you have the freedom to do what you want to do when you want to do it and with whom you choose because you have the wealth, income and lifestyle that provides the flexibility and time to do whatever you choose.
Are you doing what you love?
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