Do Work You LOVE

BY VIRGINIA NAVA HIEGER

To me, love is energy, flowing energy that can fill many areas of our lives. How can we integrate love into our jobs, businesses, and side hustles? For many, this idea may feel like a foreign language. It's unfamiliar and hard to comprehend because of conditioning that tells us work should be hard, boring, and unpleasant.

But what if you thought about work as something to be enjoyed rather than endured? What if you did work you love? Believe me; I am not just preaching here. Like many, I used to work 80 hours a week. To me, seeing the sunset was a luxury. I traveled a lot and didn't have too much time for boredom. I realized I was trained to be this way.

One day I decided to quit my job and start my entrepreneurial journey. Little did I know I was also creating my spiritual journey to reconnect with myself and inspire others.

So how did I start? I started with many single steps. The single step that changed my life was creating a PowerPoint presentation with everything I loved. I realized I had no space for my passions because of my 80-hour work schedule. After creating the list of what I love, I did the following steps:

1) Made a commitment to myself

2) Creat ed space

3) Showed up

In many ways, this is how you integrate love into your work. You first identify what you love without censoring, without trying to box it or name it or put a business plan to it. It's

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For me, it started with a jewelry class that ignited my creativity. I loved creating and crafting. I committed, prepaid the course, booked it on my calendar, and showed up. This is also the process that I followed for more complex tasks like writing three books, learning from entrepreneurship, coaching clients, consulting, and facilitating classes. It all started with my love for writing and knowing I had a story to tell. I committed to writing weekly until I was finished with the book. I learned from my successes and mistakes in entrepreneurship, and now I teach others.

Ask yourself: What do I love? How can I make a commitment, even if it means starting small? I think many people lose themselves in the million-dollar idea that they can't get off the ground, and their fear of failure doesn't allow them to start small. It's important to keep in mind that aligned action is what gets you to the big idea, not investors because they usually invest when your business is already off the ground.

I leave you with this quote from the singer Marc Anthony: "If you do what you love, you will never work a day in your life." a

VIRGINIA NAVA HIEGER, is the author of "Your Unique Gift: Finding Life’s Unique Gift Proposition" and "Meaningful Freedom: Finding Freedom Through Wholeness" , two new books aimed at empowering people on a journey of self-discovery, authenticity, wholeness and personal freedom. You may contact her at virginianava.com and virginianava@thetransformativepower.com