Camelot may or may not have ever been a real place. Some have claimed that it corresponds to Camuladonum, the Roman forerunner of Colchester, which was an impressive palace in the Middle Ages, but Elizabethans tended to see it as Cadbury Castle, an Iron Age hill fort near Glastonbury. Regardless, it has been associated with a place of wealth and beauty since the 1100s.

What is your Camelot?

Pamela J. Fischer

Executive Business Coach

President and Founder of Motivity, Inc.

Author of "Finding Your Entrepreneurial Sweet Spot ~ Success in the Millennial Age"
  

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
~Confucius

Confucius said a lot of things (and is attributed many more; I'm not sure he actually said, "Man who sit on tack get point!"). This statement above rings only partially true for me.
 
I love what I do and I know many people who love their work. We also work hard at doing what we love. It is not drudgery, yet it is work.

The first book I ever wrote was a memoir for a lady who grew up in Norway, was Jewish, and was subject to anti-Semitism. Fascinating story, and when she read my words of her life, she cried. That's when I knew I was using my gift properly. I also had never worked harder in my life.

Researching and interviewing and writing and editing and proofing. Those may be things I love yet they also fall under the category of work.

I understand the gist of Confucius's message. I love what I do. I love my life. Having my business also means there are all kinds of tasks that need to get done too. They may not be my true love, but are necessary. Accounting and organizing and administrative duties are work too.

Doing (or delegating) is easier when the overall scope of what you do is what you love. Motherhood was a job I loved and yet it required some work. Changing diapers may be a labor of love, but it's labor. You get my point. (Without having to sit on a tack.)

To think that every day will be floating on air because we love what we do is not realistic. Confucius was saying that you can find what your heart wants to do so you can wake up each morning and not dread the day. He just said it more eloquently.

When I worked at the IRS, I got up each morning in a fog. It was the daily routine of get up, go to work, come home to make dinner to do it all again tomorrow. I thought that was normal life.

Now I know work is so much more. It is standard conversation fare in our country to ask "What do you do"? I used to hate that question when I worked for Uncle Sam. Now I love it. I also meet people every day who love what they do. They work hard, yes, and their work is a part of their joy.

Please do! and use this complete blurb along with it:  

Kelly Epperson Simmons, a former IRS agent, is now an agent of joy. As a coach, author, and speaker providing 1-to-1 mentorship, Kelly helps you write the book you have been meaning to write, and teaches how being an author boosts your business. 

Kelly is the author of three books and has ghostwritten nearly 20 books for others, including NY Times best selling authors and one book she wrote has sold 3 million copies. Her weekly newspaper column has been going strong since May 2001and Kelly is a two-time national judge for the Erma Bombeck Humor Writers Essay Contest and nominee for the YWCA Women in Leadership Mentorship Award.