James LimExecution & Direction Coach for Ambitious Overthinkers

Should you "Do what you love?" 3 reasons why you can't afford NOT to! Part 1

Name: Should you "Do what you love?" 3 reasons why you can't afford NOT to! Part 1
Uploaded: 2022-02-09T23:54:52+00:00
Duration: 35 s
Channel: James Lim
Description: James Lim argues that doing work you hate drains your life energy through avoidance, procrastination, self-doubt, and anxiety. This is the first of three…

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James Lim argues that doing work you hate drains your life energy through avoidance, procrastination, self-doubt, and anxiety. This is the first of three reasons why you can't afford not to do what you love.

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The debate about whether you should do what you love rages on. But here's three reasons you probably haven't heard that might convince you why you cannot afford not to. By the end, I'm convinced you at least reconsider. 1. Let's start with the absence of it. When you are doing things you hate or have to do, it often feels like a dark cloud of emotions hangs over you. You find ways to not do things avoidance, procrastination, usually mixed with self doubt, apathy, anxiety. What do you think this cocktail of emotions does to you when the only things floating in your head are essentially about how negative things are? You're spending your valuable life energy in an environment that invites attracts the dark cloud. Is this a kind of enriching environment you think you can flourish in.