Can you do what you love?

“Do what you love”

The kind of internet meme that can drive working folk mad, their response often being: “I can’t do what I love, I have to do work I have to do to get paid”.

Well, this week I flew overseas to support a client with an annual leadership team meeting. Loved it.

Following that, I’d been asked to stop on my way back for a couple of days and facilitate (pro bono) a similar type of meeting for a national charity that gives hope and a voice to those living with and supporting those with a particular life-limiting disease.

As we finished that meeting after a thirteen hour day, I paused to reflect, recognising that I truly am doing what I love.

So, let’s talk about this. How can you do more of what you love?

“Awareness is the greatest agent for change”

A phrase I was taught by a mentor and friend, Suki Laniado Smith.

How aware are we of what we actually love to do?

What if we choose to look at work differently, to bring awareness to when we are doing what we love and look to build towards doing that ?

Let’s look at the concept of Ikigai as both an awareness tool and a way to consciously build and create our work to do more of what we love.