Finding Your Passion…Then Firing Your Boss

Soooo, how’s work? Hmmm, I bet your answer was completely lackluster.

Find Your Passion

Something like, “oh, it’s ok I guess” Ok? All who want to like an “ok” life raise your hand! That’s right, no one …including you.

Maybe it’s time to consider living outside of the box (aka – your cubicle) and pursuing your passion?

The mere task of getting out of bed was so challenging. “Do I really have to go?” I would ask myself. I actually had to get up a bit earlier each morning just to give myself time to talk myself into getting up. The ultimate deciding factor was…rent. If I don’t go, how the heck am I going to pay my rent and bills? So I would concede, drag myself out of bed and grudgingly head to my J.O.B. I felt so trapped.

When I finally found my passion and put it into action, my spirit was freed.

How do you figure out what your passion is? It’s that thing that as a youth said you wanted to spend the rest of your life doing and your parents, the “older and wiser” people in your life told you to get back to reality, go to school and get a real job! It’s that thing that throughout this journey of your life has kept nudging trying to get your attention. That thing, that when you finally do give it your attention, you come alive. You tingle with joy and excitement. You get so caught up while you’re doing it that you look up at the time and say, “where did the time go”…toward your passion

Read: Ten steps to finding your passion

Life is much too short to spend it in drudgery. Going to a J.O.B. to build someone else’s dream and fattens someone else’s bank account. Consider my absolute favorite quote:

“Why tell your grandkids you worked 9-5, five days a week for 40 years & quietly sat in traffic jams while people went to war, suffered disease and shot their own classmates? Tell them you crossed the Amazon, saw the Lost Cities of Gold and met your soul mate in Casablanca. Go now! Live adventures & make your grandkids proud!”

Now maybe travel is not your thing, that’s fine, but what is? It’s the concept that I want you to get from this quote. I want you to try this exercise after reading this article:

Close your eyes. I’m serious, close them. See yourself in your mind. Now imagine you are living your life the exact same way you are right now, same routine, same habits. Now fast forward 5 years. How old are you now? Where are you? What have you achieved? Are you happy? Fulfilled? Now go ahead 5 more years (so 10 years later). How old are you now? Where are you? What have you achieved? Are you happy? Fulfilled? Keep going ahead and allow yourself to feel the emotions that come with this and draw your own conclusion.

I encourage you to really uncover and embrace/accept your passion. Once you’ve done that I will discuss ways to pursue your passion and turn it into a viable revenue stream so you can break out of that cubicle.

Live on PURPOSE!