Digest: Love Your Work or Don’t Work at All

Why is it that so many people are willing to tolerate work they don't enjoy for the sake of a paycheck? I think it's because most of them simply don't know what it's really like to be in love with their work. Their fear is greater than their power, so they never make the leap into the unknown to find out what it's like to work from love instead of for money.

-- Love Your Work or Don't Work at All ,from Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blogby Steve Pavlina

This would be an excellent annotation of the poem "My Wage" by Jessie B. Rittenhouse:

        I bargained with Life for a penny,
        And Life would pay no more,
        However I begged at evening
        When I counted my scanty store;

        For Life is a just employer,
        He gives you what you ask,
        But once you have set the wages,
        Why, you must bear the task.

        I worked for a menial's hire,
        Only to learn, dismayed,
        That any wage I had asked of Life,
        Life would have paid.

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