Comments on: Do What You Love And You’ll Love What You Do

By: Nandoo Bhende

Nandoo Bhende — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:44:44 +0000

“Follow the heart and the money shall follow” has always been my motto and its great to see you agree! I’m in the Voice & Music production business where we create jingles for advertising agencies and compose songs for films and TV.

It all started when I was just a schoolboy and I began singing songs for the amateur hour on radio.Today, my company, InSync Studios has been in operation for more than 25 years and my successful singing career continues. Turning my passion into my profession was indeed a fortunate coincidence which was fueled by the extraordinary support given by my parents.Become a professional Rock singer in India was certainly no Indian parent’s dream!

I would recommend everybody to follow their heart and choose to be in a field where ‘play is work and work is play.’

Nandoo Bhende
BNI Alpha member (Mumbai)

‘we make you sound better”

By: Emory Cowan, PhD

Emory Cowan, PhD — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 02:10:32 +0000

This is a great Blog! You are absolutely right. Loving what you do will not make you successful at a job or position; however, it greatly improves the odds that you will be. As a psychotherapist and a career counselor, I have seen the unhappiness of many people who followed a career path or went into a profession because they were looking for ways to please their parents or get their parents’ attention. Parents could help change that processes by assisting their children to find the career that fits the child’s interests, personality, and aptitude.
Emory Cowan, PhD

By: Dinner Rally at APU « Antibody’s Fair Trade Blog

Dinner Rally at APU « Antibody’s Fair Trade Blog — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:48:54 +0000

[...] At the event, Steven met Ivan Misner, an entrepreneur and professor, who was encouraged to hear about college graduates starting a business grounded in a passion for social justice (check out his blog, highlighting Anti-Body: Do What You Love and You’ll Love What You Do. [...]

By: M FitzGerald

M FitzGerald — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:48:14 +0000

I completely understand the question from the client who asks what they “should” do in terms of opening up small business. Although I agree overall with the message in the article I also think professionals who ask the same question get a different answer. For example, if the profession is a lawyer or dentist, the decision first becomes the choice of study coupled with what can be based upon the economy. Small business owners who ask “what should I do”, in my opinion, may be asking how to put their thumb on the pulse of the economy as do professionals. Just because it is small business education and economics should not be overlooked in the answer to what they “should” do. It is one thing to sustain a business through liking what you do and to sustain interest in it long enough to be successful and quite another thing to start a business that has no place in the current economy or cannot be sustained wiithin the current economy. Accounting may be “recession proof” while I prefer to cook. I would not think to start a restaurant in any economic climate; the stats on failures in the restaurant business are too high for me to bear no matter what I prefer to do. In this scenario the economy overrules what I like because I may not be able to make a living at it. How many times have we heard about people wanting to go into one line of business because they want to, love it, like it but advice has been to the contrary because it won’t generate enough money to sustain a family or lifestyle? The high cost of education would be a waste if they didn’t follow an initial intention? Clearly there are more components to answering the question about what someone “should” do, “loves” to do, and the other side of the coin which deals with education, stats, and earning the kind of living someone wants from it. To me, just because 60% of new businesses began as hobbies doesn’t necessarily translate to economic success. The exceptions to the rule that make a financial success out of a hobbie may not be that high because of the economy.

By: Debbie Lousberg

Debbie Lousberg — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:47:43 +0000

Thank you! You are doing such a huge service to students by encouraging them from the get-go to pursue their passions. I work with mid-career professionals looking for more fulfilling work who have lost sight of what that might be. We usually discuss what they dreamed of doing when they were a student and what their favorite subjects and interests were at a young age. Many find that doing what they love is something they knew all along; they simply brushed it aside for more money or to please someone else.
Do what you love and love what you do! What great words to live by.

By: Richer Internet Business

Richer Internet Business — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:56:44 +0000

It is a shame that we don`t teach this in university. Of course you did, but i mean in the program.

This is the way human are made for – to do what they love. We are no robots or slaves for the master – well that is what they want.

This is the things that drive me in life, but sometimes it is hard with this system.

So lets do what makes our hearts sings.

Michel Richer
Hombyz

By: Shawn McCarthy

Shawn McCarthy — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:07:30 +0000

People who are doing what they love are easy to spot- they are passionate about what they do,and that comes through whenever you see or speak to them. Great blog, Ivan. Shawn McCarthy BNI ED Ventura County, Ca.