(Me, a LONG time ago! Wow, look at the size of that cell phone!)

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Before I was a Health Reporter, my first job in TV News was as a one-man-band General Assignment Reporter. I had to carry a heavy camera and tripod and shoot my own stories. I also had to shoot video of myself on camera, edit the video, and report the news of the day. I despised carrying all that gear, especially in the dead of winter… or the hottest days of summer! But I truly loved TV News and knew I wouldn’t have to keep lugging that stuff around forever. So, I learned to focus on my passion – journalism, specifically health reporting. It really helped me get through the early years of my career.

Have you ever had to learn to love your work? Here are a few tips from an article at You.Propelled that can help you find passion in your job, or other areas of your life:

1) Take a notebook with you at all times.

2) Systematically note down things that are pretty darn good about your job. Things you enjoy. Things you are grateful for. Co-workers you like.

3) Take one thing from this list that is important to you and significant to the company. Come up with a simple one month project where you will be increasing that component in your daily life. Example, if you work with a few pleasant customers, then the project could be: How to get more customers like that? Or, How to get our current customers to be like that? Or, How to get more work with those pleasant customers?

You can find more tips on How to Find Passion in Your Job over here.

(With photojournalist, Tim Pearson, after shooting a surgery story a few years ago…)

When I moved up to a bigger market and had a photographer to shoot and edit video for me, I was excited to be able to focus just on the ins and outs of my passion – health reporting. It gave me the opportunity to grow as a journalist. But I was also glad, strange as it may seem, to have done it all myself in the past. I believe it enhanced my career by making me more grateful.

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