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From the archived Rick and Carol EFT podcast series. The series is complete.
Episode #29 – Bringing More Passion To The Work We Do For Money
Love your work! But what if you do NOT? What if you do NOT like your job, or your co-workers? What happens if you raise your vibration… anyway !?!
- Whistle while you work?
- Tapping: I don’t like my job!
- Advantages of tapping on specific frustrations in your business
- Good vibration money
- Feeling comfortable with the energetic exchange
- “Oxygen is the root of all evil!”
- Tapping: Blocks to receiving money.
Companion Guide
“Love your work” can feel insulting when the work is dull, difficult, or simply what pays the rent. You do not need to pretend a bad fit is your calling. You can begin by finding one part that is tolerable, meaningful, useful, or worthy of your own respect while you decide what comes next.
Passion does not have to arrive all at once. It can enter through a small act of service, pride in a task, appreciation for a coworker, or respect for the part of you that keeps showing up.
This Guide Helps With
- disliking a job you currently need
- bringing more of yourself to a transition job
- finding emotional space to make clearer career decisions
- receiving money for work you genuinely love
- treating payment as an appropriate exchange rather than a moral failure
Start Where You Actually Are
If you hate the job, say so. A forced leap to “I love everything about my work” creates more pushing. A believable bridge might be:
- I appreciate that this pays my rent.
- I like one person here.
- I take pride in doing this particular task well.
- I respect myself for staying while I prepare my next move.
- I can make today a little more humane without deciding to stay forever.
The same workplace contains what you dislike and what is at least okay. Noticing the okay does not excuse exploitation, mistreatment, or a harmful environment. It helps you recover enough energy to choose rather than only react.
Passion Is an Interaction
Work carries the energy with which it is done. An email, phone call, package, meal, spreadsheet, or repaired object can carry indifference, resentment, craftsmanship, or service. Bringing care to a task changes your experience and often affects the people receiving it.
That does not require unlimited emotional labor. Passion needs boundaries if it is going to remain alive.
Receiving Is Part of the Exchange
People in helping and creative work may feel that love for the work makes payment less legitimate. Yet time, skill, attention, and service have value. Being paid supports your ability to continue.
Notice whether receiving money produces the same contraction as receiving a compliment, gift, or love. The issue may not be the price alone. It may be a learned discomfort with letting anything come toward you.
Tapping: Receiving for Work You Care About
Side of the Hand: Even though I have this block about receiving money and I feel it in my body, I accept who I am and how I feel.
Even though I learned that I am not supposed to receive much, especially for doing something I love, I can question that old rule.
Even though being paid feels uncomfortable, I am open to an exchange that respects both the people I serve and me.
Top of the Head: I have a block about receiving.
Eyebrow: I am not supposed to want money.
Side of the Eye: Especially for work I care about.
Under the Eye: What if payment changes how people see me?
Under the Nose: What if I ask for too much?
Chin: What if I reject what others genuinely want to give?
Collarbone: This discomfort with receiving.
Under the Arm: I accept myself even with this conflict.
Top of the Head: Money can be one form of exchange.
Eyebrow: I can charge with clarity and integrity.
Side of the Eye: I can also choose what I freely give.
Under the Eye: Receiving helps sustain my service.
Under the Nose: I can welcome appreciation without shrinking.
Chin: My boundaries can protect my passion.
Collarbone: I am open to work that feels more alive.
Under the Arm: I can let money and meaningful work know each other.
Take a breath. Imagine stating a fair price or receiving payment. Notice the first objection and use its exact words in another round.
A Two-Part Work Experiment
Today, identify one part of the current work you can do with more presence and one condition you want to change. Let appreciation and discernment coexist. Then choose one practical step toward a better fit: research, training, a boundary, a conversation, a proposal, or an application.
Bringing more passion to the present is not a contract to remain there. It can be the energy that helps you create or recognize what is next.
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