Except for in extreme circumstances, we now (more than ever) live in a world where there’s no legitimate excuse for not loving every second of what you do. Today, it’s possible to make a fortune from behind a laptop screen. It’s possible to get funding from people (and even the government) just by proving you can build something that matters. It’s possible to become a leading voice in a space just by working at it. It isn’t easy, sure. Of course there’s some luck & chance involved. But you make your own luck. You make your own opportunities. You handcraft your own future. If every morning you’re not excited about what’s next, if every evening you’re not terrified by how much more goodness you could have done, if every day you’re not awed by the power that’s in your hands to build any product or any path you want, what’s standing in your way? Living for the weekends sucks. Yet the majority of those short lives are spent “at work.” How can you not want a work that matters? That fulfills you? That you can rightfully call “not really work”?

But it’s more complicated than that, right? It’s hard to think differently, harder to take a risk– but what good has come out of thinking & doing the same as everyone else? Again, this doesn’t mean it’s easy. It doesn’t mean there aren’t steps along the way, times of hardship, & dues you have to pay. If you don’t know yet what you’ll love, that’s a frustrating process that needs to take its course. But, knowing what that’ll be, what’s stopping you from finding what makes you happy? What’s preventing you from discovering what makes every day worth it? And then why aren’t you allowing yourself to love every second of what you do?