In honor of Labor Day, I want to share a quote from one of my favorite books, How to Find the Work You Love by Laurence G. Boldt:

“Begin doing the work you love as soon as possible, even if you don’t get paid for it, or if you can only work at it part-time…There is something about getting started in the work you love that attracts opportunities and opens doors…

If you want to work as an artist and you are making your living as a waiter, don’t think of yourself as a waiter who hopes one day to become an artist. That puts the work you love off somewhere in the distant future. Rather, think of yourself as an artist, temporarily supporting yourself by waiting tables — and paint, draw or sculpt as much as you can.”

Or, in the words of Joseph Campbell:

“If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track, which has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.”

Do you love you work? If so, what did it take to get where you are today? If not, what’s standing in your way?

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