As I sit here in front of my lappie and my hot milo on my right. The clock confirms that it’s past mid-night. I am pretty much a night person. It’s my most peaceful hour. A time to reflect on the day or simply just relax, doing absolutely nothing at all. I suppose you could say that this is my most preferred hour.

For the last couple of minutes I thought about many things. How my day went, that I had not forgotten to feed the fishes and about a conversation I had with a friend a while back. We talked about many things including her progesterone injection.

My friend is a very creative person. She was in design school but she opted out and chose the corporate route instead. But, she loved (and still do) creativity and being creative. The reason she never finished design school was that over time, it felt more like a chore rather than doing something she loved. In other words, she hated what she loved. It became forced and she no longer enjoyed her studies.

And then she said “If I am pressured into doing something, I will end up hating it even if I had loved it in the first place”. That is the main reason why she never did pursue a career in design or extend her creative mind to anything more than a hobby. That sort of got me thinking – in some ways, I hold similar thoughts. I can never mix business with pleasure although, I’ve had people come up and say “what’s wrong with that?”. The truth is, there is nothing wrong. It’s just how I prefer my hobbies to remain exactly what they are : hobbies.

How about you? Can you turn something you love into a business venture and not end up hating it?