Love Your Work?

"We only get one life, and the urgency of getting on with what we're meant to do increases every day."   - Bob Buford in the foreword of Half Time. 

Can you love your work?  For some that question is an oxymoron.  Only a few can answer yes, while a lot of us just want to experience it!  Enjoying what you do is about finding pleasure in your work, it's about learning, it's about making a difference, being competent/confident, feeling included and knowing you are appreciated.  

People that love their work take full responsibility for where they work.  There are times when you have to provide for yourself/others and you take a job because you have to have one.  That is about meeting the basic need to survive.  Doing a job you love is the result of being determined to be fulfilled in your work.

Find yourself an encourager, a mentor or a life coach and do the dig to tunnel your way to being fulfilled about your work.  Search out people that love what they do and who they do it for.  Learn all you can from them.

Digging into knowing what you love to do, and then learning what you need to do in order to do it well, are key steps toward finding your passion.  The payoff will beneficial beyond measure.

I like to quote Jim Collins who wrote several books including Good to Great, "Whether you prevail or fail depends more on what you do to yourself than what the world does to you."

Do you think it’s possible to love your job?

Still learning,

Honey