Michael Okunloro | Elevate Your Style

What’s the most delicious thing you’ve ever eaten?

It’s tempting to answer this question with a dish: a buttery croissant in Paris, a perfectly spiced jollof rice, or the melt-in-your-mouth tenderness of a slow-cooked lamb. But truthfully, the most delicious thing I’ve ever “eaten” is not food. It’s doing work that matters—work that feeds not only the body, but the soul.

Most of the years of our lives, we will spend them working. That’s not a flaw in the system; it’s by design. Work is a blessing from God, a gift that lets us participate in creation itself. From the beginning, humanity was meant to cultivate, build, tend, and serve. But not all work feels like a blessing—only the kind that matters does.

No one can truly pay you the exact value of great work. You can’t put a price tag on an invention that changes lives, or a service that touches hearts. Think of whoever founded Canva. Or the genius who built the first computer. The pioneers behind the internet. The bold minds that gave us the airplane. Imagine a world without those things. Now imagine the courage it took to build something no one had seen before. That’s more than a paycheck—that’s legacy.

When you do work that matters, it tastes like purpose. It tastes like freedom. It’s the rare kind of delicious that satisfies your hunger for meaning. The kind that, once you’ve tasted it, you can’t un-crave.

So yes, I’ve eaten some incredible meals in my life. But nothing compares to the flavor of creating something meaningful. Something that helps. Something that lasts. That, to me, is the most delicious thing of all.