“F**k Work, Let’s Play: Do What You Love and Get Paid For It.”

Free invitation to all subscribers. Join Heart Leap Happy Hour tonight at 7pm to hear best-selling author John Williams on how to create work you love.

I talked to my mentor and friend John Williams, best selling author of F**k Work, Let’s Play: Do What You Love and Get Paid For It for my Big Happiness Interview in Metro last year. We talked about ‘The Great Resignation’.

What’s that? Workers all over the world have been quitting their jobs at historic rates. Data is showing that nearly 2 million UK adults left their job since the first wave of the pandemic and according to one survey 46% of UK employees plan to quit their jobs in the next 12 months.

Why? ‘The pandemic, this big traumatic event, has made everyone reassess life,’ says John. ‘It’s been a scary time and people are less tolerant of staying in jobs they hate.

‘People are realising that there’s more to work than the four walls of an office and combine this with the post-pandemic search for more meaning and connection and people are looking to reinvent their work life.

So….What’s the secret of happiness at work?

‘I believe to be truly happy at work you need the three Ps – the intersection of play, practice, and profit. When you create this sweet spot, then you’ll end up with a really good career and life.

First identify what you love doing, even if you didn’t get paid for it – something that feels more like play than work.

Secondly, aim for something you are practiced at so that you can quickly start to produce value for other people (or invest the time to get good at it).

And think how to use these things in a way that solves a problem for people. That means you’ll be able to make money from it.

When you put those three things together – play, practice and profit – you can be happy at work. The sooner you start that journey and stick at it and create stuff that people really value in the world, amazing things will come to you.’

John will be talking on Zoom tonight at 7pm.

I am creating monthly ‘happy hours’ with brilliant experts for PAID subscribers but because I want everyone to hear what John has to say, I’m inviting you all to come.

Do join us!

Here’s the link:

Topic: Heart Leap Happy Hour with John Williams!
Time: May 31, 2023 07:00 PM London

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