Let us remember our first day at our first work. Stop for a second and just try to remember.

For most of us, it was a very good day. A day that we can remember the nervosism and exciting. From every hand that we shake it and introduce ourselves to every task and process that was explained. And even most of them being very simple, we still hear it with a very sharp ear, trying to demonstrate confidence, but being a little terrified to do it for the first time.

This over excitement and curiosity made the day over in a heartbeat. When we were starting to get a hold of things, and entering in flow states of doing some real work for the first time, someone taps in our shoulder and tell us that it’s time to go home.

Why? So soon? Just let me have a couple more minutes.

Maybe this isn’t exactly accurate to your first day of work, but you recognised the feeling. Everyone, in some giving moment of our lives, has felt this great motivational felling and exacerbate curiosity, so you know that it feels freaking awesome!

Our recent discovery is that this felling, this state, is a major factor in the quest for fulfilment. But let’s hold that thougth for a second, let’s go back a little in how we’ve discover that.

There are those that simply get it right, and they do it very early!

“When I was thirteen years old, in the middle of a school class, when it just came to me. I was going to become an engineer”

That’s Tom, a lovely-full-of-life guy that made one or two things right. And we probably can learn something from his journey. Nowadays he owns an engineering company that works with some of the expensivest and fanciest flats and real states from Rio de Janeiro. But it wasn’t always like this, he actually starts to work even before college, and the moment he entered a construction site, he got instantly mesmerised about it.

“I saw the construction as if it was a dance, something with rhythm, something with cadency, with beginning, middle and ending. It was spectacular! …The fun was to watch the movement, the transformation process.”

We are talking about a guy that fell madly in love by his work. A guy that just dwelled in the essence of engineering, as it was some magic scientific knowledge that could even provide a greater sense to life! The passion in his eyes, and the ways he described simple things as some basic engineering lessons is strong enough that it transcends all the way over you, and incites that thirst for knowledge and curiosity that we all have deep down.

“College of engineering for me was an amusement park. Everything made sense. Everything that the teacher talked about I had already seen. I’ve made a connection from the theory to the practice. This was one of the best things that I’ve done in my life… fun-wise speaking! ”

Right now he has his own company, and he can really do what he believes. The way he believes is the right way. But what’s most remarkable is that this has little to do with his own sense of joy and fulfilment. It was not necessary for him to work really hard all weekend, or to build a successful career and company to get this sense of accomplishment — in fact, he hates extra hours, and to work on weekends. But it was actually much simpler and sooner. His first class in college was described through such happiness and joy that even people with years of hard work, planning and fame may never have experienced something similar.

When we asked him, how he reached this professional fulfilment, he amaze us with:

“I’ve reached professional fulfillment in day one, when I’ve started my internship. I’ve got there and think to myself:

‘Man, it’s this what I like? It’s this what is fun for me?’

Then it’s Done! Professional fulfilment it’s not a place that you reach. It is a path. It is the joy of waking up everyday and say: ‘ Yeay, let’s go to work! ’

It is a state of mind.”

Over and over in our interview Tom talked about how much fun it’s for him to work, how much fun he had in college, his first job, and even now that he is much less an engineer, and much more a motivator/salesman/psychologist, he continue with his glowing kid eyes of curiosity and the mindset that’s change every problem in just a way to have fun figuring out how to solve it.

Maybe life, and fulfilment is much lighter and simpler that we’ve though, maybe truly is just a matter of perspective. But not exactly how hundreds of self-help books always talk about it.

What if it was simply as seeing everything as fun challenges, and living every day of our lives as if it were our first day of work?

We are Fulfill Project, tell us what you think about our inquire. And don’t be afraid to hop on board in our search for this seven-head-dragon called professional fulfilment!