What Am I Passionate About? Did you ever have someone tell you that? Do you really know? Follow your passion which might be easier said than done!
According to Professor Cal Newport of Georgetown University, that advice is “disastrous”! It has resulted in more failed businesses than all the recessions combined. He says that:
“Passion is not something you follow” yet, “Passion is something that will follow you as you put in the hard work to become valuable to the world.”
First of all think about your passion?
What are you passionate about?
Taking care of the ones you love.
Being honest and open
Being truthful to WHO you are
Having others believe in you, stand behind you and help you do what you do the best.
Finding my own voice and having the life of freedom to share with others.
Are you Passionate about work
Passionate about love
Passionate about helping others
Passionate toward animals
What is it that you really love?
Follow your passion
Passion is more of an emotion that you put into your life or career. By producing something important, gaining respect for it, feeling a sense of control over your life, and feeling a connection to other people. Hence, that gives a real sense of passion.
Professor Newport say that “work can be broken down into three categories”:
a job, a career, or a calling.
A job pays the bills;
A career is a path towards increasingly better work;
A calling is work that is an important part of your life and a vital part of your identity”.
(Clearly most people want their work to be a calling.) Passion takes time, the more experience you have the more you can see how your work has benefited others. You have built a strong professional and personal relationships with others around you. Where success is concerned, passion is almost always the result of time and effort. It’s not a prerequisite.
What Am I Passionate About
Following your Passion can be a side effect of mastery. If you practice hard, soon you might find you’re the best in your group, and that motivates you to keep practicing. Practice and achievement is a gradual, self-reinforcing process. If the work is interesting and you think there’s a following – that’s enough to get started.
Then the work itself will give you the feedback you need. The satisfaction of achieving one level of success spurs you on to gain the skills to reach the next level and the next. Do you want to love what you do? Do you want a change? Do you want to achieve something you can feel is right?
Then pick something interesting. Then work hard; improve your skills; whether at managing, selling, creating, implementing, or whatever your profession requires. Use the satisfaction and fulfillment of small victories as motivation to keep working hard.
Follow your passion and Create Yourself
Professor Newport says “Don’t focus on the value your work offers you (your passion), instead focus on the value you produce through your work: how your actions are important, how you’re good at what you do, and how you’re connected to other people”. By doing this the passion will follow and if you work hard enough they will not be able to ignore you.
So, are you following your passion or what are you passionate about?
Sandy
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