“Work is love made visible.” – Khalil Gibran
In a capitalist economy, it is expected that the work we take up will bring us financial gain. However, our labor can bring us much more than legal tender which is here one day and spent the next. All that we offer to the world through the services we provide expands our ability to create the lives we imagine. Through the talents we are given and the skills we develop, we are able to effect change in the world around us, not just for our own economic well-being, but for our neighbors, our communities, and our planet.
If we are conscious of the energy we expend in our tasks, appreciating even the minutia and the large changes that can grow from small actions, we can operate by a different standard than the drudgery we so often label as work. Work should be a glorious event, one that enables us to produce things which have not existed before in order to reach the goals we have imagined.
Do you love what you do? Perhaps it’s not that you are in the wrong line of work, but that you are working in the wrong frame of mind. In all that you do, love and be loved, for the treasures thereby will exceed any amount of money you will earn in the process.
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Steve McAllister
In addition to serving as Managing Editor and contributor to Modern Hippie Mag, Steve McAllister is an actor, musician, accomplished author, filmmaker, and the man behind Your Daily Groove. His most recent novel, The McAllister Code is available as an e-book at www.themcallistercode.com. Find Steve on Twitter, @InkenSoul. Read his reviews and articles here.
