Bring Meaning Back Into Your Life

Doing what you love for a living is the key to prosperity.

Is what you’re currently doing for a living what you want to be doing with your life? Without needing to give the question a second thought, most people would answer with a resounding “no”.

The vast majority of us do the work that we really enjoy as a hobby, too uncertain or too afraid to try and make it anything more than an auxiliary endeavor. We fish on our days off, take pen to paper on our lunch breaks, work on our paintings after we punch out, take our cameras out on the town in our free time to capture life unfiltered, and unfurl our yoga mats to connect ourselves and others with the ethereal. Each of us has something special that we do that helps us to get through the journey of life; and secretly, we hope to someday find time to indulge in that thing more often and more vigorously. One day, when our brightest years are behind us and the sun begins to set on the horizon, we hope to retire and do what we love until we die. While this is a romantic idea that may warm your heart, I believe that it is actually a terribly misunderstood tragedy, and, in the next few minutes, I am going to try to convince you of why that is, and, hopefully, mitigate your fears about the risks of a radical career shift.

• What Brings Meaning To Your Life