Do What You Love and Love What You do

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       "The happiest people are those that are very busy but don't feel rushed." Keep yourself busy with activities that you're good at. People that practice their strengths daily tend to be much happier.


       This can be related to having a job that you love. Have you ever heard the saying "If you do what you love, you will never work a day in your life?" Well this is completely true. People who get to do what they love every day, and get paid for it, look forward to going to work. Most people would rather take a desk job that they don't like, but get paid handsomely, than have a job that they love but get paid an average amount. Although this will give a person more money, they will become miserable in the process. Many rich people have spent their whole life miserably accumulating wealth, and towards the end of their life they are extremely wealthy, but they missed out on all the good things in life because they spent their whole life at their desk. 


       Karl Palmer talks about people staying at jobs they don't like in his book "30 Lessons for Living" when he says "You know those nightmares where you are shouting a warning but no sound comes out? Well, that’s the intensity with which the experts wanted to tell younger people that spending years in a job you dislike is a recipe for regret and a tragic mistake. There was no issue about which the experts were more adamant and forceful. Over and over they prefaced their comments with, “If there’s one thing I want your readers to know it’s . . .” From the vantage point of looking back over long experience, wasting around two thousand hours of irretrievable lifetime each year is pure idiocy." People spend their whole lives trying to make money and their life just blows by them; these people are full of regret. If you want to be happy, do what you love and you will never work a day in your life.