by Norman Bennett

Created on: June 22, 2009   Last Updated: June 24, 2009

In order to formulate some kind of plan to get out of the job we hate, we have to have some way of recognizing and creating the job we love... and sometimes we can't see that job or position or business because it's just too obvious!

Recently a local business owner - who loved what she did - stated that her business was, so easy anyone could do it. This was interesting because her business was actually quite complicated. She had spent years developing a customer base, refining her operation, creating and recreating. It was not a simple business to operate and was not, so easy anyone could do it.

Why do we believe that what comes easy to us, must be easy for everyone? It seems we even step over and around what's easy, just to reach way out of our abilities to find something hard. Then we feel like we're earning our keep. Then we're finally doing something that is hard - something that doesn't come natural - something that is out of our comfort zone. Then we can justify taking payment for our time because we feel like we deserve what we earn... because we hate it. Something is wrong with the way we think!

Why do we minimize what comes easy? We all have a purpose. We were all given a gift. It's just that far too often, this gift is that thing in our lives that seems too easy so we ignore it. How many millionaires must we see on Oprah who finally, begrudgingly, gave in to their friends and began making their special peanut brittle or cookies or computers and created a life of ease and prosperity doing what they loved, before we are willing to look at what comes easy in our lives and embrace it? It's not that they didn't have to work at it, it's just that it didn't seem like work. Something is not wrong with the way they think!

If we are here on this earth for a reason - which we are - we must assume that that reason relates directly to our God-given abilities. Why would we be given our own unique abilities and talents, only to ignore them and struggle in areas that don't come natural? Especially with the knowledge that where we struggle, others thrive, and where we thrive, others struggle. The happiest among us are those who seem to have an ability to accept what comes naturally to them. Something is not wrong with the way they think!

Quite a few years ago I had the privilege to watch a plumber fix a water line with his son. It was cold and wet and muddy and miserable and you should have seen them fight over who was going to slop the muddy water

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