The phrase goes, ‘Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life.’ It’s a nice sentiment, that passion in our professional fields will make every day an easy, blissful experience. What if we tweaked this phrase for other aspects of our lives?
“Date someone you love and you’ll never need to work on your relationship.”
“Eat the food you love and you’ll never need to work on your fitness.”
None of that sounds realistic, does it?
Making a living by doing what we love can be a lot easier said than done, not necessarily because the field isn’t practical, but because it is physically impossible to love every aspect of the work we do every day of the week.
The Good, the Bad, and the Mundane
No matter the job title, there will always be aspects that are unappealing, the tasks that are reluctantly put on the to-do list, but are usually pushed to the bottom because they’re the least fun, least rewarding, or most aggravating.
Especially for business owners, who always wear many hats, sometimes the mundane aspects of running an operation can overshadow the joy of working for oneself. Administrative tasks like invoicing or fielding cold calls can weigh down an otherwise exciting day of doing the work that we love. Financial tasks like creating a budget or filing taxes can be a nightmare, even when the business these functions support is so fulfilling.
Too Much of a Good Thing
The concept of loving the work somehow making the work decrease is a strange one. When we love something, don't we generally want more of it? It’s easy to forget that balance is what allows us to keep working steadily and that rest, even from the work we love, is crucial to maintain that pace, or even to increase our productivity.
When we work for ourselves, it becomes all too easy to become consumed by this love we have for the work we do and the business we’ve created for ourselves. Our sense of pride comes into play and the success of our business creates its own kind of passion in our lives, and we crave more and more. But no one person can do it all, not if growth is the goal.
In part, that’s why Noteworthy Communications was born. After all, people rarely get into business so they can promote their business. That’s where outsourcing to someone who loves promotion and marketing comes in handy. There is someone out there with love for every job that needs to be done. Part of our job, whether we love it or not, is to find them and utilize them well.
Loving the work does not negate the work. Loving the work only makes the job more generally enjoyable. Enjoying our jobs goes such a long way toward the overall happiness of our daily lives, in and out of work, that it is certainly a worthwhile goal to make a living doing something we enjoy. If we’re not, then what is the point of pursuing it?
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