6. Find Joy In What You Do. Or Do Something You Find Joy In..

"The School of Inspiration" POD with Zac J!

Simple concept, but so many of us ignore it. I've been lucky most of my jobs that I've had, even the ones that are fairly mundane or routine or didn't really fill me with growth or fulfilment or contentment, or I didn't really enjoy, I still managed to find silver linings.

I still managed to find joy in a lot of those jobs. It was mainly through social connections, making friends, bringing energy, looking at it as something fun, something to enjoy something to be appreciated, rather than something to be dreaded.

So in most of the jobs I've had, I've managed to find some form of joy that would at least help you get through the day if it was a particularly mundane job or mundane role. They didn't really like but you'll still enjoy social connections a bit of banter, a few jokes with friends, a connection. If you made friends with a few people, you'd see them again and again, that made a big pause by a lot, a lot a lot more quickly, a lot of simpler. So it is possible.

But having said that, if you are not able to do that then it is really important to find something that will bring you joy. And that's a very personal, personal choice. So that could be something like art is always something creative. It can be something working with people it can be helping people grow you can become a teacher you become an it could be a giving person you can become a nurse, you can become a doctor, you may enjoy working on your own as a driver.

We all have our own different thermometers, and our own different value systems about what really really brings us joy. It can be working with nature as a gardener or landscaper or as a tree surgeon. So it's up to you if you can't find happiness or joy in what you're doing. And if it's really that bad. I remember once I was working for an auctioneer or an estate agent, and I really, really couldn't stand cold calling. I just it just no matter how much I tried. I was awful at it. But I was awful at it because I didn't enjoy it. I just found it very sleazy and cheesy and not fulfilling at all. So you will get those occasional places where it's impossible to find the goodness but in most places whether you know depending on your personality, you will find something for yourself.

But if you can't, then try and find something which will bring you to life for me. It was about media. It was about being creative. It was about writing. It was about expressing my energy and creativity. So that's why I'm doing this. That's what brought me joy as a child in fact, so I went back to my child and asked myself the question, what do I really really enjoy? What did I enjoy what brought me to life and it was the creative side of things, putting projects together, making videos, making people smile, making people laugh through my creative artistry, which is what I'm doing right now.

I'm combining personal development with artistry with the creative side of things with the video side of things and that's not something that I don't look forward to every single day. I really enjoy this. This brings me joy. I work for myself, my own independent artists. There's no one to answer to except you my audience. You either love me or you weren't, but that doesn't matter either way. I'm still giving you the best of me.

So the message of today is find joy in whatever you're doing. Even if it's cleaning a toilet and you have some you can still have a good time doing that. Put some headphones on, put some music on enjoy and make it a you know, a pleasurable experience. I used to do that when I was hoovering or vacuuming. put headphones on and just you know the day would fly by. But if you can't then find something which will bring you joy because life is too short.