Watch out for boredom in your career if your heart is not involved.

Imagine you have an uncle you don’t like. But you need him. Imagine you are new in town and he is the only one who can get you a job and his place is the only place you can stay for a while. Even though he employs you in his mega supermarket, your heart is not involved in it. You are working there to get paid. This is how I describe my previous jobs. They are like my uncle I don’t like. Although I need him because he is paying my salary, I don’t love him.

Sometimes you do jobs to survive. To pay the rent. To get by. But you have no intention of climbing the ladder in your job. If you don’t enjoy what you are doing. If your heart is not involved in it.

I had jobs where some of my colleagues loved what they were doing whereas I barely tolerated. Nobody wants to hate one’s job, but I did. Supervising roses that were exported outside of my country bored me to my bones.

I couldn’t quit my job because I needed the job to pay rent and other expenses. While my colleagues were ecstatic to be in the farm in the blazing sun. Honing their skills as agricultural experts, I was searching for other opportunities that could hold my heart.

Because I was doing the job just to survive, there was no fulfillment in me.

Whatever you do, let your heart involve.

Confucius’s famous saying,

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”

Perfectly describes my lack of enthusiasm in my old job. If you don’t wake up in the morning with some kind of joy to begin the day, it is a sign your heart is not involved in it.

If it was, you would wake up with new gusto even if you were tired. You would wake up with new determination and hope even if challenges are facing you.

The reason why my old colleagues would arrive early at the farm cutting flowers while I would create endless excuses is lack of passion for the job.

Where there is no enjoyment in the thing you do, there is no fulfillment.

I understood what this means when I started running my own blog last year. Nobody wants to be frustrated all the time and reminded of his failures. But I did. I could not get readers and email subscribers for my blog the first six months.

I sweated. And sweated. With no success that can be seen. But now that I have started the thing I enjoy doing (which is writing) nobody is going to stop me.

If your heart is involved, no amount of setbacks are going to stop you.

Do you know how you know when you find something you will make sacrifices for? Even when the path you are following is difficult than you originally thought, that is not going to stop you. Even when your friends tell you, you are crazy for leaving a job that pays secure money. You still take a risk to start from scratch and build your dream.

In the 18 months since I have started running my own blog, I now understand the meaning of fulfillment.

As Jim Rohn said,

“Reasons come first, answers second. It seems that life has a mysterious quirk of camouflaging the answers in such a way that they become apparent only to those who are inspired enough to look for them. Who have reasons to look for them.”

If a compelling reason is not pushing you to achieve something, you are going to turn your back on it.

And every meaningful reason is tied with your heart. If you want something with all your heart, you are going to do everything in your power to achieve it. Never mind the setbacks in your way. You are not going to make excuses for them. You are not looking for a scapegoat.

They are just there to make you stronger. They are there to test you how much you want that thing you are fighting for.

You are not going to pass the buck. This is too important. Your reasons are too important to be left because of a setback.

I had no reason to thrive at my old job. I was actually happy to leave it behind. Leaving a job that I was not happy for a long time felt like cutting ties with my uncle who paid me and allowed me to stay at his home.

Yes, I needed him. To survive. To get money.

But I had no intention of staying there forever.

I didn’t like staying there. Not when his kids come home and the house becomes chaotic. I did not like it even when the house was silent and I still was not comfortable living there.

It felt like living in someone else’s home. Which it actually was.

The freedom I felt when I left my uncle’s home is the same freedom I felt when I quit my stable job and started blogging.

Nothing can describe the freedom of building your own home. A home you enjoy making. A career you enjoy –not just tolerate. A career you would sacrifice other things for.

A home which is yours — even though it is small. A career which starts with emptying your bank account. But you are still proud.

Because it is your path. It is your choice. You would stay until midnight for it gladly. You would fight for it come those setbacks that will definitely come your way. Let them come and you will show them how strong you are.

Nothing is going to stop you because your heart is involved in it.

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To your inspirations,

Banchi