Do what you love.
Hey there, everyone!
Long time no see. :) I’m glad to be back on the blog today sharing some fun news, and some tidbits on what I’m learning in my life these days.
I’ve been on an entrepreneurial adventure the last six months or so, and I’m really loving the life I’m creating. I’m passionately pursuing my event planning business, Penderview Events, I’ve started an affiliate marketing adventure, mindset7, I’m working on a project basis with Happily Hitched wedding planning, and I’m contemplating a plunge into life coaching with Alive&Free Consulting lol.
All that to say, life is full of fun endeavors of work that I actually enjoy.
And here’s my tidbit for today: Do what you love.
If you’re engaging with work that you really don’t enjoy, or you’re doing it for the wrong reasons, or you’re really only “living to work” OR “working to live,” I feel like all those things miss the mark to some extent. I don’t want to clock in and clock out, and think that my life only begins after 5 pm during the week and that I’m only really living for the weekends.
Think about it. If you only really live for your evenings and weekends, that’s about 70 hours of you life. There are 168 hours in a week. That means that almost 60% of your life is being wasted. In other words, the majority of your life.
I know my parents’ generation and certainly my grandparents’ generation were built to operate with work in a 9-5 kind of way. These days, it’s very different, and I genuinely believe the Internet has changed the world forever. Entrepreneurship and owning a small business is super attractive (look at me lol), and people are being rewarded online for working smarter, not harder.
I basically wanted to write this today to bring to the forefront of our minds the beauty in doing what you believe in. Make a living doing something that brings you joy. Don’t waste 60% of your life doing something you genuinely hate. Why waste your time that way? There are plenty of other ways we can waste our time lol, and I certainly don’t want to be doing it with the time I use to make money. The time I use to make money is still my time, and I can use it for more than just making money!
Plus, we’re living on borrowed time anyways. I’ve written about this a time or two before, but we aren’t guaranteed tomorrow. We’re not even guaranteed the next 24 hours. So then, why use the precious time you’ve been given in a way that doesn’t make it feel precious? That doesn’t consider it to be a gift?
I’m all about embracing life as a pure gift. And when I see my life that way, I find that I’m only allowing myself to spend my time doing things that reinforce that idea.
This is ultimately, I think, a matter of self love and purpose. Am I doing something purposeful, something that I enjoy and love? And I creating a life for myself that reinforces who I am, what I want, and what I love to do? I want to love myself, and the kindest thing I think of to do for myself is to do what brings me joy!
So, friends, do what you love. You certainly aren’t what you do, but when you know who you are, Whose you are, and what makes you you, you won’t allow yourself to engage with things that suck the life out of you. Live alive and free. Spend the precious time you’ve been given doing what brings you joy.
