"Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
- Harold Whitman
Do you live your passion? Truly live it? Or, do you simply struggle to get through each day trying to make ends meet? Most of us get so focused on day-to-day tasks and demands that we forget what it is that once made us feel alive. Too often that thing that made us feel thrilled to start each day anew, becomes a looming dread. We are robbed of our passion by our own inattention.
How then do you continue to live your passion each day while protecting its existence?
I've made a career out of living my passion, and following its lead. But this is no easy task. Working your passion is something that requires being aware of its existence and its needs. Because if there's one thing I've discovered, it's that your passion has needs.
Day-to-day work can be draining. The constraints, too restrictive. Your passion becomes stilted and small. Unrequited. Unfulfilled.
Misery soon sets in.
Your passion, then, must be protected. Your daily work isn't your passion. It might be a glimpse of your passion, but it's not the whole story. Your passion must be larger than your work or your work will consume your passion. Find what you're good at, what you love to do - and do it, but don't make it all about work or you'll have nothing to live for.
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