Doing What You Love Every Day

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I learned the word FIKA from a Swedish acquaintance I met in Slovenia. It is generally interpreted as “a coffee and cake break,” which is somewhat accurate, but it is much more than that. Fika is a key component of Swedish culture as well as an attitude and state of mind. Every Swede believes that taking a moment to pause and socialize is essential. It improves relationships and revitalizes the mind.

Note: It’s okay, of course, to fika on your own too. It can also be the time for you to wind down and reflect.

Encouraging ourselves to detach and relinquish control is so crucial. It lets us break from our routines and lets our minds wander. It’s essential to our health, our relationships, our creativity, and our productivity. However, many of us find this challenging.

To achieve a good state, many of us want to do something with our lives, to find significance in our work, but are unsure how to do it. They therefore feel that they must either compete or get on the hamster wheel.

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Rather than being part of the rat race, if every person works on themselves to find their place where they are doing something they love, then the world will become a better place because there are fewer angry people, sad people, or violent people because people are content with what they do.

I know some might think ‘Finding and doing what you love’ is foolish career advice that fails to take reality into account. We live in a capitalist society where certain people find it easier and others find it impossible to pursue their passions. It’s important to realize that doing what you love should be about the life you live, not just the work you do.

Between “doing what you love” and utterly disliking your work, there’s a lot of space. Finding a middle ground is more important than accepting a job that pays the highest salary but makes you sad in the process or accepting a job that pays nothing but fulfills your passion.

Building the life I love for me involved figuring out what really mattered, which for me was having a flexible work schedule and making time for travel and artistic endeavors.

The crucial element to all of this is maintaining a positive outlook on life. It’s critical to discover and pursue your passions on a regular basis; this doesn’t have to be your job; it can just be making time for hobbies and other pursuits that give you meaning and purpose in life.

Deciding what to do with your life is not a simple task. In fact, most people struggle with this question and are continually analyzing their purpose. There are numerous approaches you might follow. Try asking yourself these questions to begin with. These are intended to help you take your next steps:

· How is your life going right now? What specifically do you want to change?

· Who do you admire? And what do you admire about them?

· As a child, what did you dream about?

· What topics inspire you?

· What’s the biggest dream you have that seems out of reach?

As mentioned above, answering these questions will give you a roadmap. Once you’ve answered these questions, go look for hobbies, careers, and people you can chat with. Then you will be closer to doing something you love every single day.

If you find that thing that you need to do in life and you forget all the noise around you and focus on just doing what you have to do, then you do it well, and you do give something back to the world that the world needs. You have to look inside to figure out what you want. Nobody can tell you what you want; only you can figure that out, and you just have to do it, even if it doesn’t make sense. If you find a way to just do it, everything will work out.