One’s opus is one’s labor of LOVE. You can’t get around this truth. Doing what you love always generates heat. You see, full hearts are on fire. You can’t get around this truth. You know if you’re on fire or if the flame’s gone out and you’re nothing but fading smoke. You know, don’t you?
Here’s the good news. You can still be very successful doing something you don’t love. You can choose, like most humans, to find an occupation that will simply pay you well and work your way up the ladder. A few will make it to the top this way. When they arrive there they will discover it still isn’t their LOVE. It provides them, oftentimes, with great income and it takes a huge toll. Funny, we tend to miss this “and.”
These people are what I like to call, “highly paid laborers.” The business world is full of them. Their time at the top, regardless how long, is less than fulfilling – way less, oftentimes.
Here’s the beauty. Y-O-U have the redemptive power of choice. Y-O-U can choose to continue doing what you presently don’t love. Y-O-U can work to rekindle your LOVE for the work. Y-O-U can choose to re-awaken your passions in other areas and see if this newfound energy seeps into your work. Y-O-U can choose to medicate the chronic pain that comes when you make more money than you create meaning or when you don’t make enough money to create more diversions.
You choose. Your choices have consequences.
You, the reader, have choices too. I hope you are choosing to start your own fire.
BUILT TO LEAD 