I’ve always thought that work was a little counterproductive… You work the entire day (which is an average of 8 hours for us lazy Westerners), come home tired, stressed, and unhappy, and try to find ways to help yourself relax to gain enough energy to endure yet another excrutiating day. Some people spend their hard-earned money on spa treatments to compensate for their work stress, others shop or frequently eat at restaurants.

In the time when I was jobless and poor (how fun that was!), I found that even though the lack of financial freedom did feel uncomfortable, I didn’t feel that need to spend money on myself to relax / find balance / enjoy life. If I didn’t have to go to work every day, where the corporate world would drain every living drop of energy out of you, I could retain my balance effortlessly, without the help of these little luxuries.

And even though back then I couldn’t really “prove” my theory with any substantial evidence (i.e. I never had a job in the past that didn’t require me to spend “feel good” money on myself), I knew deep down that this was my cause for spending that money. This was the reason why saving money was so difficult for me: if you’re always draining yourself at work, then come home to more house work, and you can’t spend a dime on yourself – you begin to feel as though you’re speedily on your way to becoming a part of the suicide statistic.

Why do the light beings keep telling us to pick a job that we love? Because it affects the rest of our lives! If you love your job, you come to work and you leave work excited, ready to take on the world. You don’t have to get home beat and nearly dead to fall on the couch and watch TV because that is the only thing you can bring yourself to do. You can come home and still be full of energy to go above and beyond! Not only will your energy levels be boosted but your bank account will only keep growing as you find new ways to enjoy life and instead of dragging yourself out to a salon, you’re happy just to be in the moment.

I only get tired closer to 9:30 – 10 pm, which is my bedtime, so my body knows when to start “shutting down” for the night. I have periods when I’m buzzing about around the office and when everything is nice and peaceful. I feel very lucky to have the amount of independence to be able to determine my schedule more or less but I also feel like I have done a lot to make sure that I love just being in this space. When I relax, my eyes wander about the office, looking at my growing plants, my art work, my photos, and so on. I have little things here and there that remind me to take breaks to make me feel *most* happy at all times. Most people imagine admin work as dull, boring, and uneventful. It can be if you imagine it to be so :) But if you envision it to be everything you ever wanted to have in a job, it means it’s possible to have.

I genuinely believe that if each and every one of us inserted more joy into their lives (i.e. “en-joyed” it more) and lived out their passions every day at least once a day, the world would change in a day.