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Do what you love or love what you do. Is that how it goes?

This 'or' is a big problem. It makes the statement sound great but it obscures what really needs to be understood.

'Or' is important at the moment when there's a decision to be made. It concerns itself with that moment. 'Work' is often not a matter of moment. 'Work' is really some work. It spans time. Have I made the point? It spans time. Which means it's a matter of time.

Of course, it should always be that you do what you love. If you are doing that, great. If not, then life doesn't get over.

It's not necessary for one to take a decision one way or another and then just forget everything. Appreciate the situation, and then determine to bring about a situation where you are in a position to leave everything and do what you love. That needs some planning. That needs some goal-setting. That needs some juggling.

So the task for you right now is to determine what is it that you love, whether you are doing it already or not, whether you would love doing only that and nothing else… You get the point.

Once these questions are answered, then save a bit out of what you get out of your current work, juggle with time, invest time and money in your improving skills, invest time and money in updating your knowledge, invest time in asking for help, invest time in talking to experts… When you eventually become confident of sailing out into the oceans, do what you love and nothing else.

It's about patiently bringing a balance in the way you spend time now to relish in the imbalance (when you do only that what you love) of tomorrow.