You can LOVE what you do and it can STILL feel like work! 😬😣

There, I said it! This whole “if you love what you do you’ll never work a day in your life” — I call BS. I think it’s having so many of us feel worse about not feeling excited about our work or needing a vacation.

I’ve had the absolutely pleasure and privilege for a decade now to do honestly do what I love. While I have multiple prongs to my career, each was chosen with my heart. And yet, I most certainly do feel like I work.. and work a lot. I’ve had clients over the years that repeat this sentiment to me, they’ve started businesses they love and it still feels like work! I had this same moment myself back in the beginning of my career.

I remember calling my dad crying and saying “Dad, I think I messed up. I want a vacation from my job, it feels like work. I’m not supposed to feel this way because I’m doing what I love!” My dad laughed and said, “It is work! Just because you love it doesn’t mean it doesn’t feel like work — it’s very different then sleeping all day or laying on the beach all day. It’s okay that it feels like work and it’s okay if you need a vacation.”

So incase any of you need to hear that today. If your following a passion or doing something you feel grateful to do — you don’t need to feel guilty that it feels like work, it is!

You can be grateful and tired. You can love what you do and still want to unplug. You can feel so connected to your work and still have days where you’d rather not do it.

Xo, Cass