what you love

"Do What You Love, The Money Will Follow"
is a book written by Marsha Sinetar, published in 1987, Dell Publishing, New York.
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The title sums it up so well, that you almost don't need the book.
It's an idea.
Some people scoff; some people do it, if they can.
---------------------- Chapter 1 begins,
Work I disliked the most was work I wasn't suited for. Once, for example, I sold vacuum cleaners door to door. ...
By the time you get to Chapter 10, she's into writing about something like -- you become "one with" the work, or something ... "Because he has committed his heart, attention and intention to doing the work (and doing it with a kind of narrowed, intense focus which transcends ordinary consciousness) he heightens his energies and intelligence, and thus is able to give his all to the job at hand."
There's this quote, at start of chapter: "It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching."
Before you say, "That sounds like esoteric bullshit," got to tell you, that quotation is from St. Francis of Assisi, so -- there's no swearing or vulgar language.
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When we think of people who do something they're really good at, and then the Money "follows," it's easy to think of rock stars and great writers, whatever, & then we think, "Yeah but they're different, that's few & far between," but --
recently in my own experience, I've encountered two people who are not famous, rich, and incredibly talented and prodigiously fortunate, but rather real people, who both
"Do What They Love"
and
"The Money Follows."
-----------------------The guy who fixed my car is one. He works on cars in his garage anyway -- a race car, and whatever -- that's What He Does, because that's where His Talent and Enthusiasm Are, and then --
without promotion or fanfare, people come to him, and Bring Money.
He does what he loves, & the Money Follows.

And a co-worker in my department -- crochets.
She crochets -- blankets, baby hats, baby head-bands, music CD-holders, socks, shoes, Corvettes (I think), bank vaults, the Brooklyn Bridge -- whatever ... it's like Extreme Crocheting.
And people want to purchase custom-made sometimes custom-designed items which she
crochets.
She crochets because she LIKES to crochet.
And the money -- Followed.
(I picture five and ten dollar bills, 20s, 50s, hurrying after her on sturdy legs & sneakered feet. She is stalked by money.)

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