This year, this time around, this new set of goals, this world you live in, that you will create: “Do what you love to do.”  Why?  Oh, you say, I know that one…I have heard that one.  Sure, so simple, what’s the big deal…it is a rusted out, overused, over-simplified platitude, cliché all the way.

            But what if, what if, you really did more of what you loved, focused on what you are brilliant at, become a legend in your business, in your world, and loved every minute of it? 

What if you began to make so much money, create so much happiness and satisfaction because you shined, you were the expert at learning, the inspired seer seeing all the way to the end of the goal, the dream, riding down the end of the rainbow, because you knew, you got clear, you had absolutely no fear, you were a tower, a guiding light, the person others looked to when examining the ideal person in the ideal situation doing their ideal work?

            It is never too late to believe in a vapid cliché, a direction that has no stops like a run on London sentence, like a train through Siberia, or your life with the pedal to the metal, full bore, a V8 racing through the desolate parts of Utah blaring your favorite music.

            Come on believe that  you are destined, you have greatness within, that you can but tweak inside and watch the outside align, grow, change, become your garden, your oyster. The world is your playground.  Time is the grains of sand in the sandbox that is bigger than you have yet to imagine.

            This year, this day, this moment, do what you love, what you are brilliant at, explode and expand and develop the inward gifts that you have, you have learned, you were born with and watch your world shine.  Become a star in your own sky, a  hero in the script you wrote, an anomaly in the land of automatons—those playing it so safe it drains the life out of them, it sets worry into motion and they scream in the darkness for the sunrise to light a new path.

            “Do what you love to do and you will never work another day in your life.”—Confucius.  “I will retire five years after I am dead.”—Warren Buffett.

            Read this a tremendous bit of prose by James Michener. 

            “The master in the art of living makes no distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his life and religion.  He rarely knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing.  To him, he is always doing both.”

Do both!