Do What You Love. 

Four words that can conjure up the best in your life.

And how to do it. 

This outstanding article on DO WHAT YOU LOVE, NOW is part of my new book, a 28-day method to be happier and do what you love coming out soon, on my website and others such as Amazon.com.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Confucius

 Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
Henry David Thoreau

Do What You Love, Now

5 Ways to Find Out Your True Dreams… and 12 Tips as Bonuses

It’s now 5 am and I just got up. And I’m… happy to do what I love this early, I was the first surprised of it! I haven’t found any other job than being an author and a lifedesign coach that I feel this trilled to get up early and disappointed if I didn’t. Have you found out what animates you enough that you would not mind doing this “concession”? If not, here’s how to find it, and if you did we’ll make sure it is really what you love.

Doing what you love implies that you are excited about something, that you feel driven to do it no matter what once you’ve found it! You might be paid for doing what you love but even if you had all the money in the world you would still do it. It’s a mission you have that sometimes you can’t explain and it gives purpose to your life. You radiate happiness doing it!

Loving what you do, doing what you love, may respond to all the human needs we saw earlier, responding to your physiological, security, belonging, self-esteem, self-transcendence and more particularly the self-actualization needs. It’s why we feel so compelled to do it, even though society won’t really push for it. An unfulfilling underpaid instrumental job lacks to answer to all we need. A job of passion can sometimes lacks to respond to your need for money, but with some imagination and all the possibilities available in our days you can find a way to bring enough income.

Doing what you love for life can be for a work or for a passion. If it’s a passion that you aren’t going to live on, you might need an instrumental job to support you, so try to find something that you enjoy as well, as happiness has so many positive results for someone.

So Actually What Do You Love?

Finding out what you do love to do can be hard to pin down and without a method you can be searching it a long time. I sure did, and combining experiences, knowledge and self-improvement methods I came up with tips so you can be able to find it quickly and easily.

How to Find Out What You Love to Do and Define Your Dreams

Way # 1: What Do You Love to Think About?

What are the dreams you think about?

To begin from the start, try to note what you think about in your regular life; what subject do you think about when you have spare time, when you’re driving, in your bath, shower, even on the toilet? Spot the emotions that you feel when you think of those subjects, ditch what seems to drain you from your energy and choose what excites you. The excitement is a good gage to know you love what you do! Note it and make sure you don’t restrain yourself, you can find ways to do it later with my guidance.

 Also search into your old dreams. Find out what you’ve always dreamed of accomplishing but put aside for whatever reason. If you still love it, it’s time or never to start going toward it!

 What you actually dream about can give you “in you face” clues on what you love. It’s meaningful that it’s a subject that psychology adores; it’s really true that dreams can reveal a lot about yourself and what you want. What did you dream about those last months? To explore your dreams more deeply, note them as soon as you wake up. For example, I dreamed that I was to do what I love, I was realising my dream to be an author and my books were on store shelves. I was really excited about it and it pushed to do it.

 Way # 2: What Are You Doing Good – Your Talents and Who You Really Are

To find out what you love to do, you could do a personality test online to know more about yourself if you’re mixed up or tried to stay away from finding it. A lot are free online but you might have to pay for complex ones. I love the Myer-Briggs’ one, to find out personalities, I even do it mentally as a hobby to try classifying people I know intuitively so I know more how they think and how to interact with them. But be careful with the results, sometimes they do not express exactly your wide self. Use them only as guidance and find deep within yourself if they really make sense on who you are and doing what you love.

Note also your talents, what are you really good at, because it’s easier to love something you’re already excellent in. If you’re not really talented for what you love to do, worry not, for you can develop it with time – hours of practice make experts.

 Way # 3: Do What You Love Experiences and Dreams Which Seem to Come Together in Your Life?

Try to find out the dreams and/or the experiences you had that come together in your life. You might know people that were always attached to certain domain and ended up really happy finding their way in it, talk to them about how they got there.

Some of my dreams were that I have to do something important. Even if I thought it was in sports, I was sick and injured so I was stopped. Then I remembered I wished to write a book. In life, on the “side”, I always had been good in school without forcing it, I could come up with a good text on top of my mind, I dreamed of going to university, I tried journalism, I loved reading since a young age. I dreamed of helping people on massive scale being happier and doing what they love. All those experiences and wants really come together today along with other dreams like staying home with my children.

 As you map out past experiences you can find out ways they come together to find out what you loved to do in the past and what you love now.

Way #4: Do You Have People Who Inspire You to Do What You Love?

Role models in finfing out what you love to do are important because they push us to be better and it’s said that what we see in them is already in us to a lesser extent. My role model number 1 is Gandhi; I’m inspired by his non-violent fighting spirit, his good virtues and the fact that he actually changed things with them.Readingabout him, I found out his struggles, how human he was, and that he just did what he had to do which in turn showed me anyone is capable of exerting his principles.

Now who are your role models? It can be famous people, your mother or someone you know that is doing what they love. I know that I find people around me who are doing what they love really inspiring, and that’s the thing, we can be role models ourselves and help out others believing that themselves can do what they love too!

Find out what it tells about you.

 Way #5: Is It You or Others Who Love What You Do and Dream to Do?

It’s a big topic but with some guidance one can easily find out for himself. Was it pushed onto you to be a doctor (or replace by another career) too? I know I was mixed up because of expectation of others, even though they wanted to help, it ended up taking me more time to find out what I love. I studied a little to be a doctor and I was really unhappy. I loved the idea of being one, but it was deviating from my dreams of helping all the people I could and the way to get there was “hurting” me – I hated chemistry homework!

Society also put emphasis on some careers that are judged better and people herd up to get there, ending up unhappy in their lives. Is it really helpful? I don’t think so. Nowadays about 50% of workers hate their jobs. Wow, that’s so sad! Society also pushes on us a model of consumption and values we might not really adhere to in our natural and unconditioned state, so make sure to identify what you really crave for.

Once you found your dreams on doing what you love or re-found it if you put it away in the past, it’s now time to believe in what you love to do and keep doing it. At the least it will make you happy, and at the most you could have the life of your dreams with it!

Bonus

12 Tips to Do What You Love Now, and For the Rest of Your Life!

 Here is food for thoughts to help you realize what you love to do for life :

Do What You Really Love Tips

1. Identify what you love to do with the precedent theory;
2. Bring it into your life more, keep yourself 15 minutes, then more and more time to do exactly what you enjoy;
3. Get rid of what you don’t love anymore (next topic);
4. Believe in yourself all the way;
5. Don’t talk to people about your dreams if you think they would bring you down, find people that can encourage you if you can. Join together, maybe you can start a happiness and do what you love group;
6. Find resources to make it a reality. Fuel your passion every day, be happy and excited about it. Read on the topic such as other articles on Be Happy and Do What You Love website, join forums, think about it on spare times, live it more and more;
7. When a disappointment arises, because there might be bumps in the road, use your energy to propel you in the right direction instead of complaining! Don’t give your attention to things that don’t really matter.
8. Take time to relax too and replenish your energy daily and take the week-ends off, it’s important! For example after a week-end you can have a better perspective on how to achieve what you love to do. Keep time for meditating where you have more answers about your passions in the end.
9. Keep dreaming on what you’d love to do. It’s the first step to bring what you want into reality. We all evolve and it’s normal to want to take another step toward a new realization in your life.
10. Think about ways that you can have enough income with your passion;
11. Pin down what you DON’T want in your life and figure out ways to stay away from it. It can be changing having to work 40 hours per week, not have enough time for friends and family, etc…
12. Push or dissipate what is seen as limitations. Age isn’t really important, as humans could live up to 130 years if you pay attention to yourself. In fact, you’ve got enough time ahead of you and you’re young at 50 years old! If you’re a woman/a minority/etc. I know it’s said that we’re all are equals nowadays but we’ve got to make it happen in reality, don’t stay in old ways of thinking, be yourself and you too can do anything respectful if you want!

Now please use the remaining of the free time you have today to think about what you love to do for the rest of your life, take notes about it… and repeat everyday!

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Yours for happiness and success,

 Marie-Eve

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