Generally, to "do what you love" successfully for money, you need people, management, planning, self-development and marketing skills. And you generally need to

Generally, to "do what you love" successfully for money, you need people, management, planning, self-development and marketing skills. And you generally need to be quite exceptional in at least one of these areas. Most of us can make smarter decisions, get more sleep, be more efficient doing both what we don't want to do and do want to do. This is self-development. Without it, your productivity will be too low to make much money. Many of the best opportunities to be self-directed (which is a lot of what people "love") are in small business, where marketing dominates.