“Doing” Love.

So, as most of you know, I’m in the process of making a career change from accounting and business consulting, to blogging and writing.   On December 1st, I’m planning to cut loose one of my biggest clients.  This is not just scary.  If I think about it too much, it’s pretty freaking terrifying.  To quote the old Enjoli commercial, since I’m a single gal, if I’m not bringing home the bacon, there’s nothing to fry up in the pan.

My Coach and I were talking about this next step I’m taking during our session last week and she said something that’s been resonating with me ever since:

“If you love what you do, what you ‘DO’ is love.”

Just think about that about that for a moment.

How profound is it to think that by doing what you love, what you’re “doing” IS love?  That by going out into the world and putting forth the service/skill you were born to give, you’re “doing love” to the world.  I’m still in awe of the whole concept and it makes me more determined, and hopeful, that I can continue to have the strength to make these changes in my life.

Along those same lines, as part of my efforts to get back into writing, I took a course on revising and editing my manuscript with Lani Diane Rich.  I’ve known Lani for a couple of years now, and I think she’s a pretty amazing teacher.  During the last class she said something that’s also stuck with me: when you’re a writer, the writing is your Life’s Work.

Wow.  Another moment, another comment, from another smart woman in my life that left me staggered.  Writing as my Life’s Work?  When I heard that something deep inside my psyche sat up and went “YES!  That’s what I’m talkin’ ‘bout!”

In all the years I’ve been an accountant, I’ve never, ever, felt like accounting and consulting was my Life’s Work.  I never even really thought of it as my Career.  Mostly, it was just a job that paid the bills and kept me in cute shoes.  Other that? Meh.Whatever.
But, now, I’m looking at the books I’ve got half finished, the blog articles I’m writing and want to write, the websites I want to launch and they’ve suddenly taken on a new label of Chelle’s Life’s Work.  All of these things could be the body of work I leave behind to prove I was HERE and I MADE A DIFFERENCE.  They will not only be my thoughts and stories that Sunshine can read someday, or give to her daughters and grand-daughters to read to say “Look, this was my Mom.  This is who she was and what she was interested in.”

Now, this mass of half written books, blogs, articles, etc., could be what I give to the world.  The very real, very tangible piece of myself given because writing is what I’m here to do.

With Love.