Love what You Do

Today I finished listening to a book on Drive and Motivation. It spoke a great deal on research studies that tried to locate the single factor that influences what we do. A very fitting discussion for this blog. To summarize EyeRoll4, it’s a template: I do blank for blank. The one interesting takeaway I got from this book was that the addition of incentives sometimes takes away the feelings that normally are associated with work and tasks that are enjoyable. In JiuJitsu, it’s said that if you focus on the next belt you’ll not last long. I didn’t transfer this idea to other aspects of life before reading this fact. If we like work that we are doing and decide to try and get paid for it, we may lose steam with the addition of an award or paycheck. It’s definitely difficult to not focus on a paycheck in our career because everything revolves around the idea of payment and transaction of currency. When material awards start to cloud thoughts of why we perform our jobs, take a second to think of the joy that got us started. EyeRoll4 the love and joy that my passions bring me.