Two things take up most of our lives: our professional life and sleep. So, if you want to live your life to the fullest you cannot afford not chasing your dreams or making reality out of those dreams.  Spending 8 to 10 hours of my day doing something I don’t enjoy is a nightmare to me. I worked very hard to be able to do what I love and make a living of it. Every week I get the question “what do you do for fun?” and it annoys me every time. You see, I find my work fun. I went for making my hobby my career. I did not want to do anything I did not enjoy, I was lazy, did not have the patience or perseverance, I sucked at having a regular job. When you love what you do you don’t perceive it as work. That is why my work day never begins and never ends. I’m on duty and on call all the time. And I happen to love it. I still feel like I’m just playing, I’m so lucky being able to train as much as I want, stretch as much as I want, write when I want to, work with positive people and say “no thank you” to those I don’t see as contributing to my life.

Being successful to me is finding pleasure in work. What you do should reinforce you, empower you, make you feel there is a need for you in this world. If you don’t feel it, you gotta try to change your situation. When you choose your career due to desire for money you will never be happy with your every day life. Because those kinds of jobs usually means a lot of work hours. And how fun is that when you detest your work?

Let me tell you…. I did not go for my career to make money. Making money off doing what I love is fantastic, I cannot believe I do it actually, but I believe it comes from having the passion for your mission. Everyone’s got to have a mission! Why otherwise fight for something? There’s got to be a bigger cause to keep the fire burning for.

All I want to do is to inspire. And not just by having my picture hanging on some wall somewhere in the world. Yeah, a look, a body, an appearance, it’s all good, BUT, what I have to say, what I write is what I want to be remembered for. And that is the big reward: looks will fade, but words in writing are for eternity.