"You neglect to cheerfully engage in the work which God has left you to do. You overlook the common, simple duties lying directly in your pathway, and your mind wanders off to some greater work, which you imagine will be more congenial to your taste, and which will supply the lack in your life, the barrenness in your soul. You will surely be disappointed here. The work which God has left you to do is to take up the common, everyday duties which are right around you and do the plain, homely duties of life cheerfully, not mechanically, but having your heart in what you do, performing with your heart, as well as with your hands, the simple duties which lie before you. 3T 330.1"
"And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;"
The EGW passage directly echoes the sentiment of Colossians 3:23, emphasizing doing work heartily as if unto the Lord, rather than mechanically or for human approval.