I am today's power question:

"How can you get paid to do what you love?"

I think this is a very very open-ended question, because you just have to find what you love to do and do it as your job.  For example, if you love being a doctor, and you do everything you can to do it, then at the end of the day you'd be doing what you love, and be getting paid for it.

As far as my specific scenario, getting paid to do what I love would involve being paid as a motivational speaker, which could even relate to being paid for appearances or other things that support this type of goal.  So in essence, I'd be getting paid helping people, but I wonder at one point if I would be compensated enough such that I would ever be able to leave my dayjob.  I guess that would remain to be seen.  And would the emotional or psychological reward be enough to do it so that being paid would only be a bonus if it was there?  I don't know.  It's definitely not one of your run-of-the-mill things that people usually want to be.  But something in me calls for it. 

I wonder how many people out there are getting paid to do what they love.  I would probably say about 1 in 3 people...if that.  But I don't want to say that just because you're not getting paid to do what you love, it doesn't necessarily say anything about who you are as a person.  Yes, fear can provide a lot of people from actually pursuing what they WANT to do opposed to what is easy to do, but there are people who are doing what they HAVE to do as a means to another end.  Being an expectant father makes me regard the latter with even more respect and awe.  I used to be critical about that kind of stuff, but sometimes, there just isn't enough compensation to do what you want, or even love.  If I gave free speeches and was still helping people and did not do anything else to make a living, well, my family would suffer.  So it's important to keep it all in perspective. 

Quote of the day
"To know the road ahead, ask those coming back."
- Chinese Proverb