Do What You Love to Do Online Course Is Here (+ How to Snag a Scholarship Seat)

A quickfire round of yes or no questions…

• Do you own a gift or talent that you want to share with the world? Are you sharing it?
• Are you doing your unapologetic great work? If not, what are you doing?
• Are you living purposefully and working your purpose? Oh no, not this purpose thing again!
• Do you feel your own life would be all round happier and flourishing if you were doing what you love to do? Please say yes. Pretty please.

Or are you…

Bored? Uninspired? Lost? Fed-up? Stuck? Stopped? Stalled? I have something for you.

But first…

We live in a world where the most common belief to ‘do what you love to do’ is for many impossible, pipe dream, not do-able. Love and Work aren’t used (much) in the same sentence.

I hear it…

“I would do what I love to do – if I had the time.”

“Do what I love – that’s impossible I need to pay the bills.”

“I would do what I love – if I knew what it was.”

“How will I live?”

The common belief is becoming more uncommon.

Right lovely, for this post I’m going to wear two hats.

Hat No 1 is…my commitment to my belief that we can all (if we choose to) do what we love to do.

And.

Hat No 2 is…my professional careers advisor hat. The hat that many of you probably will be more comfortable with, but we’ll see…

Hat 1: Heart to Heart

I know most people equate the ‘doing’ part with ‘earnings’ bit, and well, that’s where the first error lies. Doing what you love to do isn’t necessarily about money, heck, it may be something that nobody will ever pay you for.

Can we do what we love: sharing our unique gifts, talents and skills with the rest of the world regardless of a payment?

I say … yes.

Are you allowed to create just because you want to and are called to?

Again … I say… yes.

Do you have to wait until you see a way of receiving a salary or paycheck to do what you love to do?

No. This time. I say … no.

I’m a coach and trainer. But it didn’t start with money/pay/earnings. It started with 10 years working as a volunteer in a charity who supported excluded, abused and ‘at-risk’ children, and young people. First as a front-line worker, then training new volunteers entering the charity. 3 months a year for 10 years volunteering. And then the rest of the winding path to today.

I love working with people. I love undoing fear. I love supporting others through their own transition. I stand for inclusion and diversity. I love helping people cut through the crap and noise so they can be who they really are and do what they love to do. That’s my difference. My talents, gifts and skills have seen different wallpapers, different environments and different office chairs, different remits and different client groups. But the core, the love part, has only grown stronger.

But I also know that doing what you love to do, for the majority of my fellow human beings appears impossible.

That’s why my own gifts, talents and skills are valuable and why I just have to use them. Not because they (mine) are all that special – but because there aren’t enough people in the world saying ‘you have the right to be happy’ and ‘you have the right to not live in fear’ and ‘you are valuable’ and ‘we need you, I need you’. That’s my gift. It’s not going to change the world on its own, it’s not going to end exclusion and bring about equality on its own. Yet, even if it makes a teeny ripple.

As a trainer and coach, my speech isn’t:

‘You must do what you love, yes you can, I did it, look at me, so can you’.

But more:

‘I want to help you do what you love to do, right now who knows what it is, but let me show you how I made it happen (the good and the bad) and how all the others before you make it happen also…oh yes, there are others…I just want to show you it’s possible. It may be a long road, but to ignore what you are masterful at, when you know you are capable of it, urgh, please let me help you find a way.’ And now…

Hat 2: Heart to Head/Careers Advisor Hat

Am I saying we can all do what we love to do?

Yes, I am. But hold your horses, before you give me the ‘I need money, have bills to pay, it’ s not realistic’ speech… I’m not putting ‘what you get paid to do’ and ‘doing what you love to do’ in the same pot.

They are different.

One can be done regardless of whether you receive money or not.

You and I are not a career, work, job title, set of jobs and descriptions. Those can be rewritten and disappear tomorrow (and your perceived identity with them). Your skills, talents and gifts will remain, so why not use them more, bring them alive every day?

What if there was a way to use your gifts and talents? Isn’t it worth exploring?

So, for all those not doing what they love to do. I’m inviting you to stop waiting. To start, if you want to, down the path of making it all happen. I invite you to acknowledge your gifts, talents and skills.

I invite you to come and play. Explore. Create. Work out a way to make doing what you love to part of your everyday living and experience for life.

Why? Because if you ask ‘why am I not doing what I love to do?’ – I bet it comes down to money. The old way is crumbling. Money had no value all by itself. But you, your gifts and talents, they are what you do for yourself, and for others, that is beyond any value. Because I work with too many people who are utterly miserable in what they get paid for.

Money won’t fulfil the hunger for using your gifts.

There. I’ve said it. The (new) truth is that now, more than ever, more and more people are using their gifts and talents, and many making a living from it. Do you want to be paid to do the work you love to do?

Well, what steps are you taking today?

Nothing?

Ta-raa…now you can…

Introducing the Online Version of Do What You Love to Do Course

Shiny. You’re invited. It’s 5 weeks. All online, you can attend eating ice cream from your bed, wearing Scooby Doo pyjamas, really, come as you are. After 15 years of delivering this baby face-to-face with peeps, it’s now time for the online version.

It’s for you if…

You want to do what you love to do and you are willing to explore how you are going to make it happen.

You’re going to get…

You can read about it here.

However…

• 5-week course all geared to help you discover your love work and start doing it.
• A private classroom where you will receive all the course materials and you’ll be able to hang out with other peeps.
• Powerful tools, resources, exercises, questions and Q and A’s.
• Worksheets and journal prompts so you can work out (eventually) what your love work is and how to bring it into your life daily.
• Community. One powerful group of lovely people to share, connect and bounce around your thoughts with. (This is mandatory…no lurkers!)
• Oh, and of course wee calls with me and everyone else, a bit like ‘surgeries’.

You’ll love it if…

You’re ready to cut through all the resistance, excuses, barriers and obstacles and well, you can’t afford a career coach, life coach and business coach. Three in One would be awesome, this will give you that.

What can you expect?

Well, it’s my intention that you are doing what you love to do. At the end. Or not long after. I also expect through the community (support, encouragement, motivation and accountability) that you will take more action in 5 weeks than you have in the past 15 years.

Why this course?

I cannot expect everyone to believe me when I say ‘you can do what you love to do’. When I have my professional careers advisor hat on, I sit in the ‘do what you love to do’ camp but I also will being my qualifications, experience and ‘professional’ careers advisor robes’ and solo business owner knowledge.

Lots of love.