This post, and others during the month, come from my new book about Do What You Love Starting Today that I’m finishing during the Write NonFiction In November (WNFIN) challenge, started by Nina Amir. The book is paralleling this monthly writing challenge, being a 28-day method to start doing what you love now and live off it for the rest of your days. Enjoy!

Day 1

How to Start Doing What You Love Today 

Do What You Love Starting Today, or Carpe Diem - It could be making the first steps to go over to France and make wine, living off an epic time

I’d like to begin with something more lovable and funnier than what I’m about to say. But in a way, it makes place for doing what you love and being in a blissful state.

I’ll start by the end: someday, maybe tomorrow or more likely in many years, you will die. Your life on this planet as you know it will no longer be.

Is this affirmation hitting you hard? I’m not telling the punch, though, we all know it even if in our industrialized societies we try to be immortal humans with a make believe there’s-going-to-be-a-next-day-in-our-lives routine to forget this fact.

Yes, our lives come with a deadline, that’s one of the only certainties (with paying taxes, some add).

As European monks and scholars who have kept skulls as reminders of their mortality, called memento mori, and the possible short period that life is, we should consider it today, facing the present.

If we take away all the hours where we have to sleep, our time here is limited. And we want to do what is it we love, so our productive time is even shorter.

This uncertainty and relatively short time span act as reminders.

First, a reminder that doing what you love matters.

Doing what you love is really important for you have to enjoy what you do with your allotted time, all your life.

But moreover, doing what you love has to start today, right now.

For all we know the only time certainty is now.

The way we experience life, yesterday is like a dream where you can’t go back and tomorrow isn’t there yet.

Yes, it’s important to have plans to set out the future as we would like it to be. But we have to start by loving our present. So doing what you love starts today with being in a state of bliss, or commonly said, happiness.

About Starting to Do What You Love Today

Being in the now is something that we can have forgotten to do. Babies live in the now. All that matters is now, sometimes it is even displeasing because we’d like them to know “hey, all the probabilities say that you are about to eat in a few minutes!” But they get the truth that until it is happening it’s not real. We can forget it with learning time notion, because we assume there will be a next day or moment that might not happen for us, in fact.

The funny thing is that even science supports that time is only a dimension, that is relative. Einstein said:

“People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion”

The real data is that all is happening now, but it’s hard to grasp all its implication. Your time is made of Now moments. Even when you think about the past, it’s in the now you’re doing it. So today, this now, is all you really have. The present is all there is.

Follow the Buddhists teachings who say the happiest people truly live in the now.

Are You Loving Your Doing and Being Today?

It’s important to ask ourselves that question: Am I happy and doing what I love today?

But even before looking to do what we love, which is understood in a broad sense of not only loving what you do at work but what you do in all aspects of your life, we have to consider just being happy, here and now. Because if we aren’t in the present, totally aware of whom we are, what is going on and enjoying it, it’s hard to get if we do love what we do or intellectualize we do love it when it’s not the case.

Not being in the present, aware, we can be automatically doing things. We might not realize we love or not what we do. We have to stop in the now and discern it.

You have to be in a Zen state, in the flow of things and not wanting to be anywhere else. There you will know what you love, if you have a strong feeling for what you do, if you’re filled with a positive emotion at your task.

Zen comes from a Japanese word that means meditative state, a self-realization from an aware state of mind. In other words, being Zen is being and doing consciously, in the moment.

For example, as I’m writing now, I’m totally in the flow in this moment. I love to get the ideas out of the thought sphere and typing them, feel the keyboard and the motion of my hands. I’m overcoming my big challenge.

Doing what I love is happening now!

I savor it. I sense I live fully. I’m helping myself doing what I love today and I know that by doing it my energy is sent out in this way to help others doing so. It’s an amazing and awesome feeling!

And as I’m taking a pause in writing, I have a message that I just won a consultation for the writing of this book by the founder of the Write NonFiction in November, Nina Amir. My joy is high!

What is greater than living fully a moment? Living fully a joyous moment… And this can be yours for life if you decide to.

Being in the now is living the magical moment totally, being your happiest and doing what you love at this instant.

I hope you begin to grasp how to do what you love now, starting today!

You’ll get other blogging the book posts directly in your mailbox by subscribing here if you aren’t already.

The book Do What You Love Starting Today with theory and down-to-earth exercises will be released in book plus in ebook format here and on Amazon (look into the product section if you get this post later), thanks for reading!