You love what you do. I’ve just come from my favorite online group, MomMasterminds. We were discussing what we’re doing over long holiday weekends. Most of us play and work during the weekend, some of us take the opportunity to put in more work since their kids are away with family. Then my friend Kristie said
Guess we all live my this motto huh? “Find something you truly love to do, and you’ll never work another day the rest of your life.”
That’s so true. When I was working for the multinational companies in my career, I won’t say they were unpleasant at all. I 
loved my work then, enjoyed it a lot and God has been good to me for I had great bosses, good colleagues despite the occasional shrew but hey there’s one in every aspect of life so no biggie.
Yet, I’ve always been frustrated by bosses telling me “No, we don’t have the budget for this” or ”I don’t think it’s a good idea because this technique is unproven (new)” or “I don’t think such a thing can work at all” even though he or she has no idea what I’m talking about. At the end of the day, when sales looks at marketing (which is headed by me) I get this – it’s your fault our sales are down or you aren’t doing enough to support us crap.
You know, I can take flack from customers. But it’s internal finger pointing that really drives me up the wall.
Now, I am more in love with what I do than ever before. Sure, I still don’t have budget for some things but then I have the power to find the budget. Unproven techniques? Baloney. It’s only unproven because no one has tried it and if I’m going to be the first to do so, so be it. I may hit the jackpot 
Yes, sometimes I still think being your own boss is grossly over rated especially when spirits are down. That’s when a mastermind group is a life saver.
But… it’s this – doing what I love without being held back that makes work – not work. Once, a friend asked me, “Why and how do you work so much?” knowing she’s an avid reader, I said “It’s like getting paid to read. Why wouldn’t you want to ‘work’?” She totally got me from then on.
Photo courtesy of: Mario A. Magallanes Trejo
