Day 4: Doing it for the love of it

"Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it."

Henry David Thoreau

Love is perhaps the greatest motivator of all things, including in the workplace. And how many of us are guilty of forgetting that we love what we do, we just get caught up in the dramas and temporarily lose sight of it.

In the Living Mountain, Nan Shepherd points to the fact that the people who accomplish the extra-ordinary start with a love of what they do. and how pursuing that love, cultivates more...

"It is of course merely stupid to suppose that the record-breakers do not love the hills. Those who do not love them don't go up, and those who do can never have enough of it. It is an appetite that grows in feeding."
Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain