Start your own fire…

Recently, I had another “Kairos moment.”  I was posed a very good question by a very perceptive thinker.  He told me that he was “stuck.”  He’s authoring his OPUS document and he doesn’t believe what he’s written.  He told me that he LOVES the people, the process, the place, and so many other aspects of his work.  He really does.  And, he told me why he’s certain that he’s stuck.  I asked him to tell me more.  He did.

He told me that he doesn’t LOVE the product of his work.  He just doesn’t.  He asked me if you could be in your OPUS and not LOVE the product.  My answer was clear, concise, and direct.

No.

One’s opus is one’s labor of LOVE.  You can’t get around this truth.  You can, however, still be very successful doing something you don’t love.  You can choose, like most humans, to…