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🗓️ 25 April 2016
⏱️ 6 minutes
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“Do what you love,” we’re always told. And if we’re fortunate, we get to pursue a career doing the things that bring us the most joy. But have you ever noticed what happens when you take an activity that you love and start to associate it with “work?” It sucks the pleasure right out of it. Before you know it, the things that once brought you happiness now feel like a chore. In today’s LOVE Life I’m going to teach you the most important life skill you could ever have: how to derive enjoyment in life without having to change your situation, putting you in control of your happiness every day.
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0:00.0 | This is Love Life and I'm your host, Matthew Hussie. |
0:06.0 | It's so exciting to hear feedback from women who say things like, |
0:09.4 | Matt, I tried the advice from your podcast and I met someone incredible that same night. |
0:14.8 | But occasionally I'll hear something like, |
0:17.2 | when something finally starts to go right in my life, |
0:20.1 | I have trouble trusting that it's real and I just can't enjoy it. |
0:24.3 | If you can relate, I want you to stay tuned until the end of today's show |
0:28.4 | because there's something really exciting I want to share with you that has the power |
0:31.8 | to change your way of thinking forever. |
0:34.3 | But first, let's get to the episode. |
0:39.9 | So I went on holiday recently and I took five nights to go somewhere and just relax. |
0:48.4 | I found myself at the beginning of this trip getting back to something that I really love, |
0:54.4 | which is reading. And there's something interesting about this for me |
0:57.9 | because when I was a teenager, I used to read a lot of self-development books. |
1:05.0 | That would be the thing that I would steal away from my homework or steal away from class to read. |
1:10.0 | While everyone else was reading a comic book inside their English textbook, |
1:14.4 | I had a self-help book inside my textbook and I was reading it and learning about people |
1:21.0 | and human dynamics. Now the thing about that was I enjoyed it. I saw it as fun. |
1:25.6 | It wasn't work to me. That was my hobby. That was something I did for enjoyment. |
1:29.9 | And as I got older and began to realize that ambition of actually becoming a coach and working with |
1:35.0 | people, increasingly I found that reading those same books became a chore because I started to |
1:42.8 | associate it with work. I started to see it as work. Have you ever done something that was fun |
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