surfing with his friends on a trip to Australia and Indonesia, Nick kept thinking how great it would be to have a camera that could capture the action of him and his friends surfing. That one little thought was the seed of an idea that became the GoPro camera, which made Nick Woodman one of the world’s youngest billionaire entrepreneurs.
Bliss Leads to Bliss
There’s an irresistible and powerful quality that radiates from you when you’re in bliss and doing what you love, and that powerful quality draws more bliss to you. Even though you might not be able to see your dream yet, when you’re in bliss you are on the very path that will lead you to it.
LAYNE BEACHLEY
Make the choice to do something that makes you feel good on a daily basis. How many people do that? How many people identify what makes them feel good and then commit that time to themselves on a daily basis?
You are following your bliss when you make a decision to do something that makes you feel really good every day. It could be as simple as sitting in a park or a garden and relaxing with your feet up, or buying a cup of your favorite coffee and instead of drinking it on the run, sitting down, taking a breath, and just watching the world pass by. No matter how insignificant or small it might seem, each day make sure to do something that is your idea of bliss. Before you know it, you will be inspired with other blissful things you can do, and, from just doing that one thing, you will soon have a hold of a thread that’s going to take you to your dreams and to a far better life.
PETER FOYO
It’s a cliché, but I believe it’s really important to live your life to the absolute fullest.
MICHAEL ACTON SMITH
Along with our family and our relationships, the job we do is one of the most important parts of our life. It’s certainly somewhere you spend most of your waking hours, so it should be something enjoyable; it should be something that you are passionate about and that you care about.
JOHN PAUL DEJORIA
I love what I do, or I wouldn’t be doing it.
G. M. RAO
Money and security are very important to everyone. Personal satisfaction and passion for a particular thing you do is more important. That is why it is important to dream.
If you have a full-time job, you probably spend around 250 days of the year at work. Two hundred and fifty days is over two-thirds of the year, so if you’re not doing what sets your heart on fire and fills you with passion and excitement, you are wasting a lot of precious days of your life.
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking and don’t settle.”
Steve Jobs
Cofounder of Apple Inc.
If you’re at home raising children, make sure this precious time of your life includes something that you love, and do it as often as you can. When I was at home raising my children I needed a creative outlet, and so I threw myself into cooking. I took cooking courses, bought books, and practiced and cooked until I had perfected every cooking method I could find. Cooking became my bliss. When I returned to my job in television, the first television show I developed was a cooking show, and because of what I had learned, the show became very successful. With its success, my career in television production flourished.
JOHN PAUL DEJORIA
When you are passionate and you like what you’re doing, when it is what you want to do, not what you have to do, you always do it better because you’re doing it with love.
For some reason many of us have separated our bliss from our work, and we don’t love what we do every day. But life doesn’t have to be like that. The fact that there are people who are blissful and living their dream for their work tells you that it’s possible for you, too. You don’t need to know what your dream job is, because