Do What You Love and the Money will Follow

If you don’t like your job; if the economic downturn has left you unemployed; if you could do anything in the world, now is the time to do it. My grandmother used to say ‘if the world gives you lemons, make lemon meringue pies.”

The silver lining in financial woes and possible job loss is that now is the time to do what you have always wanted to do, but you have told yourself that “I gotta have this job—I need the money” stands in your way. Since necessity is the mother of invention, you have all the time in the world to pursue your passion.

Here’s how:

1)Go back to college. Junior colleges have classes and credit hour fees that might fit your pocketbook; if you are financially-strapped, apply for a grant or scholarship;
2)Take a job that allows you time to apprentice in a career field that you like. I know someone who decided to wait tables and work as a novice in a design firm because he has always wanted to be a decorator.
3)While you are drawing unemployment, if you think you’re a writer, pick up the pen; you tell yourself that you could be an incredible painter, invest in a brush, watercolors and canvass. Put your money where your heart is.
4)Open yourself up to people, places and synchronicities and coincidences. Who you need to know to put you in the middle of your dreams could be sitting by your on an airplane or standing in line at the grocery store or movie theatre. God puts the right circumstances in our life when we know what we see when we look and what we hear when we listen.
5)Ask for what you want in prayer. God is gracious to help you when you reach out to Him.
6)Always ask others, “What can I do for you?” Amazing miracles happen when we are doing for others.

Whatever it is that you have always wanted to do now may be the time to go for it. And age is not a deterrent. Do you remember Grandma Moses? She started painting in her 70’s and sold her paintings until she died when she was 101.