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5 Reasons Why You Need to Love What You Do

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” Confucius

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It is important to love what you do. After all, should you spend many hours doing something, you want to be feeling good about it. Yet, there are many who choose to spend hours slaving away at their day jobs wishing that they could be doing something better. They simply do not enjoykwhat they are doing.

Some may explain that they need their job for the money. True. But that does not mean that you cannot put more love into it. Instead of complaining, you choose to focus on the areas that are great. When you do, even the most mundane task involved in your job feels less like a drag. And obviously, if you can find something that you would really love to do, you need to find a way to work towards doing it.

We used to have a friendly security guard in the condominium complex that I stay in. Mr Ong was mainly in charge of opening the gates for cars to leave and enter the compound and to keep watch on the surveillance cameras. Yet, he spoke of what h% did proudly. He made his job sound important and believed that he was fulfilling an expanded role. It was clear that he saw more to sitting in a tiny guard post. He felt a strong sense of purpose. Just talking to him made me feel very inspired to love what I do.

1. Feel the Excitement

Think about it for a second. When you know that you have something good coming up, you will be excited. This could be a friend’s wedding, a vacation or simply a day with the family. If you know that you are doing something that you enjoy, you look forward to it; even children find this, especially when it comes to birthdays and Christmases.

You can recreate the great feeling by doing something that you love. You wi,l be able look forward to the next day all the time, never thinking of schemes to get an extra paid vacation day or a reason to miss just a couple of hours of work. It is easier to love what you do when you are doing something that you love.

2. Gain Better job Security

If you are in a job just for the sake of it, you will not necessarily have any job security. This is because you will not put the 100 percent effort into your work that your employer will require from you. You won’t be motivated to give it all you have, which happens when you really love the work that you do.

Work feels less of a struggle when you love what you do. You are inspired to give the best because you view it askan expression of yourself. You do not even mind spending hours just trying to get the tiniest detail right. Even though there could be far more important things to worry about, Steve Jobs, for one, would spend hours just trying to get the shade of a color right for his Apple products.

3. Improves Career or Business Success

Enjoying what you do will also help you improve your career. You will have a positive attitude in the workplace. You are even willing to do more. This will be a great boost for advancing up the career ladder.

When it comes to running your own business, enjoying it will help your business grow and succeed effectively. Loving what you do generates positive energy. Your customers will notice the extra touches and will make purchases from you based on that.

4. Willing to Ride Through Bad Times

No matter what type of job you have, life will get tough. During this period, there is nothing worse than knowing that you have to work a 40-hour week doing a job that you hate. On the other hand, 40 hours seems like nothing if you are doing something that you enjoy.

Doing something that you love will make all the hours that you put in worthwhile. You will have the motivation to keep going and see past the difficulties. You will be more keen to find creative solutions around the issues. There is still joy to be derived even though times are hard.

5. Reduce the Stress of Work

By doing a job that you love, whether you are working for someone else or working for yourself, you will reduce stress levels. Deadlines will not be viewed poorly. Also, doing the best for customers or clients will become second nature.

By reducing stress in the workplace, you will also reap the health benefits of lower blood pressure and lower the chance of heart attack or stroke. Doing something that you love means that you will be happier in life and not just at work. Your wellness improves overall.

When you are well, everyone around benefits too. You are less prone to feel frustrated about work. Instead, you will be infecting everyone about how passionate you are over what you do. Loving what you do is important if you desire a life of love and happiness.

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Love and abundance always,

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The Vizier/Han of Harmony - July 6, 2012 Reply

Hi Evelyn,

It is true. We need to love what we do. Otherwise, it can become very hard to do what we have to do or even wake up each day. You have put together 5 great reasons on why we need to love what we do. These are the thoughts that crossed my mind as I read through them.

1. Feel the Excitement

If you love what you do, you will keep wanting to do it. If not, you will find ways not to do it. It is easy to tell if a person loves what they do or not. You can see this from what they say about their jobs. If they are more focused on the weekends or their next vacation than what they are doing, then chances are, they might not be that excited about their jobs.

If we can change the way we see our jobs or work towards finding or doing what we love to do, then we will have more excitement in our lives. After all, we will be living the lives we want to live.

4. Willing to Ride Through Bad Times

Yeah it is hard to ride through bad times if you dislike what you do. The first obstacle you face will make you want to give up since so much energy goes into getting through each day. But if you love what you do, it becomes easier to hang in there and overcome whatever difficulties that arise.

I feel it is important to love what you do. If you do love what you do, doing it is a joy. It is also easier to last naturally at what you do and to provide excellence because you love it. When you love what you do, your choices and actions are one with the universe and that will only work in your favour in the long run.

Thank you for sharing this lovely article!

Irving the Vizier

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Evelyn Reply:

Hello Irving,

Indeed. When a person cannot bring himself to be present at work, it can be a sign that he does not find what he is doing fulfilling. And yes, just changing how we perceive our jobs can work miracles. Even if it is not really the thing we would love to do, just by focusing on the good parts can help shift our energy.

I like what you said about “choices and actions are one with the universe and that will only work in your favour in the long run.” Absolutely!

Love and abundance always,
Evelyn

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Angela Artemis/PoweredbyIntuition - July 7, 2012 Reply

Dear Evelyn,
Great tips that make so much sense. When we are doing what we love we won’t give up as easily and be inclined to walk away when the going gets rough.
Love it!
xxoo,
Angela

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Evelyn Reply:

Hi Angela,

Doing what we love makes a lot of sense. But not everyone sees it nor put it into practice. It can be hard for these people to shift their perspective to love what they do too.

But as you already know, doing what you love and loving what you do may sound common sense but can create a lot of magic!

With love,
Evelyn xo

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Vidya Sury - July 7, 2012 Reply

Such useful tips on following our passion, Evelyn. Reminds me of the wonderful saying, when you love what you do, you don’t have to work a single day in your life. Spontaneous commitment!

Thank you for this beautiful post!

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Evelyn Reply:

Hello Vidya,

Oh yes, when we love what we do, work can feel like play. Work doesn’t feel hard nor a struggle. We derive joy from what we do.

With love,
Evelyn

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Lauren Lionheart - July 7, 2012 Reply

Yes, Evelyn! So true! I think that Confucius quote is the perfect summary, too. When we choose to spend time doing work that make us happy – which is another way to say “living your Purpose” – our whole life transforms.

That video made me feel really grateful to be alive now. We live in amazing, quickly-evolving times! <3 Millennials <3

From my perspective, the most important thing we can do to achieve personal satisfaction and to positively change the world is to do work that we love. To get clear on our Life Purpose, and make it our focus. Your Life Vision Mastery Program sounds like it will help a lot of people get to that place. So awesome!

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Evelyn Reply:

Hello Lauren,

Welcome to my site. I enjoyed how you highlight the point that doing work that makes us happy is essentially loving our purpose.

And yes, I absolutely agree that if we can do the work that we love, the world becomes a much happier place. Thank you for what you said about Life Vision Mastery. I sure hope that it can help make a difference to the lives of many!

Love and abundance always,
Evelyn

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Galen Pearl - July 8, 2012 Reply

It’s interesting. I have always made great choices about what I do with my work and free time. I only had one job I didn’t like. I knew right away it was a mistake. I started looking for another job right away and within a month had a job that I loved. Great post.

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MyrkoThum.com - July 13, 2012 Reply

When I was at the university I often noticed that some of my friends didn’t had a clue of what they wanted to do after studying was over. It never made sense to me. Somehow they believed that exactly the company that they liked would offer them the dream job right after they came out of the last exams. It never worked. They didn’t take responsibility and developed their own vision.

I think it’s important to think about what you want and then go for it, in your work life especially. So nice initiative Evelyn and Good Luck to you!

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Nneka, Working Mystic - July 15, 2012 Reply

Hi Evelyn, I’m in the enviable position of loving what I do currently while building a business that I also love. I see a lot of people start a business to escape their day job. I tried it that way and that felt like an uphill battle.

When I turned things around and started appreciating all that my current job provides, mining it for all the experience I could get, and enjoying my team and my client; I almost didn’t want to leave!

To me it’s all about really enjoying every moment of your life and trusting that all that you desire is unfolding.

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