Advice of the week

"Don't worry about what you do, just make sure THAT you do"; is a tidbit of wisdom a friend recently bestowed upon me.  I don't think it applies to all areas of life, but certainly many.  How easily we can get hung up on details and lose our momentum.  Many ideas never find fruition due to lack of action.  Worrying, obsessing, or perfecting what to do is easy.  Simply doing it, that's when life can start living. 

Sustainable Pure Vocation

I've often found action that comes from a pure place is tough to sustain.  When I find something pure I enjoy doing that excites me, I want to keep doing it and turn it into a living.  Equally so, I've found that monetizing something pure I enjoyed doing takes the joy out of it, rendering is unsustainable.  I think we can love our work, it just needs to be work that can work for us.  I loved filming skateboarding as a kid, and thought I was meant to do that for a living, but it involved me living 2 states from home and frankly wasn't very enjoyable once it became a real business.  That work, at the end of the day, just didn't work for me.

My new policy is- like your job as much as it will let you love your life... Love what you do; without over doing it, and protect what is pure, always.