It is possible for you to make money doing what you love.

Daniël van der Velden
2 min readJun 1, 2020

Whether you truly believe that you can live by just doing what you love or not, you should believe it.

Yesterday I was sitting in silence and listening to my monkey mind again. It told me of many things, especially how it was afraid of not being enough. As always, I told this chaotic part of my brain that there was more to it and that we would come back to this later. But my monkey mind would not let go of me, it kept telling me about its feelings.

Okay, monkey mind then what do you want me to do about it? It told me that it seemed like I was being caught up in the rat race. Then it had me, because that is indeed how I had been feeling. So I took my monkey on a journey inside. Only to realize that it was correct. Just before the monkey wanted to say “I told you so” I came to a new understanding (because I was not willing to give it the satisfaction). I was working 8 hour shifts 5 days in the week, but I a am consciously doing so.

At this point it might seem weird to you that I was having a conversation with myself. Don’t worry, I am totally sane, these “conversations” take hours and they are about worries that flow into my mind while I was meditating. No monkeys were harmed in this story.

Still, the monkey part of my brain would not let me go to sleep that day. It wanted me to listen again and I took an hour for this meditation before feeling a very vibrant ray of hope in my belly. It told me that there is a way to start making money by doing what I love and that I just have to keep doing whatever that is. I might have to put some more hours in, outside of work. But as long as I believe, I will get there. So I turned to my monkey mind with one eyebrow raised. I used to think that that monkey was a bad thing and now it had helped me.

Sometimes, what we have to change in our lives is so obvious that when you actually listen to the thing that is bothering you, it is already fixed.

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