Focus

I was telling someone about my day today, and in the midst of the telling, realized I was focusing my story on the one hour of extreme unpleasantness I'd experienced. I had completely forgotten about the many hours of real enjoyment I'd experienced doing work I really, really love.

It was only after I'd complained about my day, and was onto another topic, that I remembered what fun I'd had working on a project. I told my listener about the fun part of the day, and as I was talking I realized how I'd let one hour become the story of my entire day.

When I really think about, I got to spend many hours doing the things I love most about work. I had a big writing project, which allowed me to:

• write topics of my own choosing.
• take difficult or technical topics and turn them into customer-friendly language through interviews and collaboration with topic experts.
• research subjects I don't have complete knowledge on.
• search the web for content ideas, statistics, etc.
• spend time quietly focused on the writing project, to the exclusion of all else.

I LOVED this part of my day. As I think about my Dream Job, writing and research are definitely a very large portion of my day.