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Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable{mso-style-name:"Table Normal";mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;mso-style-noshow:yes;mso-style-priority:99;mso-style-qformat:yes;mso-style-parent:"";mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;mso-para-margin:0in;mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}After thirty years in business coaching, thereare a few things I know to be true: 1) different people have different innateskills and abilities, 2) most people are currently performing jobs that are notsupported by their natural skills and abilities, and 3) when people connectwith jobs that are supported by their natural skills and abilities, theyshine.  All of which I’ve always found reflected in thefollowing quote from Confucius: “Choose a job you love, and you will neverhave to work a day in your life.”  However, I recently ran across a couple of blog poststhat gave me pause to reflect on this quote, its meaning and how others sometimesinterpret it differently than I do. You can peruse these posts online: “TheOverjustification Effect” by David McRaney at and “Bad Career Advice: Do WhatYou Love and You’ll Never Work a Day” by Chrissy Scivicque.Mr. McRaney states there’s a misconception that “there is nothing better in the world than getting paidto do what you love” and the truth is actually “getting paid for doing what youalready enjoy will sometimes cause your love for the task to wane because youattribute your motivation as coming from the reward, not your internalfeelings.”   The key difference is theemphasis placed on reward – in my view (much like Confucius) the reward isnever the primary motivation, it’s icing on the cake.According to Ms. Scivicque: “this absurd axiomsuggests that you can simply take what you already love, turn it into somethingfor which you get paid, and it won’t ever feel like anything other than thatthing you love.” Perhaps if I interpreted the quote the way she does, I wouldagree with her conclusions. But my view of the quote goes more like this: “If your job requires you to perform activitiesthat make use of skills and abilities that are innately yours, you will findthat your work ceases to be drudgery and becomes something significant,meaningful and enjoyable.” Here’s the first point of distinction between Ms.Scivicque’s interpretation and mine: choosing a job you love does notnecessarily mean choosing a job for which you have a passion. You can love thefact that your nonprofit helps kids connect with mentors, but still hatepicking up the phone. You can love technology, but hate dealing with people whodon’t know how to make their router work. In other words, you can love whatyour business does, but not what you do in your business.  Here’s another important difference between myinterpretation of the quote and Ms. Scivicque’s: doing a job you love doesnot mean you will not have to expend effort, or that there will not bestruggles and challenges along the way. I do not believe that working at ajob you love will always be fun or easy – only that jobs that reflect who weare in what they call on us to actually do provide satisfaction in a waythat jobs we’re only doing for the money never will.  The meaning of the quote turns on the word ‘work’and how different people perceive the word. So many of us define the word froma completely economic point of view, rather than what we do to develop ourinnate gifts and talents. From this economic viewpoint, work consists ofactivities that we don’t even like, much less love, and that we would prefer toavoid. I view work as part of being human. It issomething we do because we are alive, and part of the human imperative is to doas well as to be. Work, by its very nature, requires effort – skillsmust be developed, talents discovered, old abilities refreshed and newcapacities revealed.  But effort and drudgery are not the same thing.  Work, as Fredrick Buechner’s defined it, is “theplace where your deep gladness meets the world’s deep need.” Work is notsomething to be avoided or transformed; rather, it is something to embrace.Why? Because it illuminates our excellence, both to ourselves and others. Does my interpretation of Confucius’ quote differfrom that of Ms. Scivicque and Mr. McRaney? Absolutely! And perhaps from yoursas well. That’s okay with me – the innate differences between people are whatmy work is all about.   Lynda-Ross Vega: A partner at Vega Behavioral Consulting,Ltd., Lynda-Ross specializes in helping entrepreneurs and coaches builddynamite teams and systems that WORK. She is co-creator of Perceptual StyleTheory, a revolutionary psychological assessment system that teaches people howto unleash their deepest potentials for success. For free information on how tosucceed as an entrepreneur or coach, create a thriving business and build yourbottom line doing more of what you love, visit www.YourTalentAdvantage.com.