Perhaps you’ve found your passion in life or even found a few. Now what do you do? Where passion is a choice born out of our unconscious, the life we create is born out of the decisions we make and actions we take. It is up to us to face the future and imagine the… Read More
Without Passion, Why do it?
I’ve written about finding our passion through exploration recently. After writing the posts, I came across an article within a copy of the May 2015 Popular Science magazine a good friend gave me, Nothing but the Truth (http://www.popsci.com/nothing-truth) by Alan Lightman. The article talked about “science’s greatest weakness is also its greatest strength and talks… Read More
Purpose Vs. Passion: The Message and The Means
Here’s an excellent post from the GoodVader about Purpose and Passion. Our personal business is built upon having a vision which gives ourselves purpose. When we follow it, the passion flows. Purpose Vs. Passion: The Message and The Means.
The Passion of Our Business
Passion is an eagerness to fill a need and provides an energy we can use to fuel our actions from sex to running, studying to flying, or from doing the best we can at work to writing a book. It can feed our understanding of process and systems or allow us to connect with people. … Read More
How Do We Find Our Passion?
As we discussed last time, passionate living is finding the playful eagerness within ourselves to live and create the life we value. How are we supposed to do that? The key to unlock our inner doors of passion is exploration. The word explore is from the mid 16th century Latin ex- (out) and plorare (utter… Read More
What is Passionate Living?
I recently came across a couple of things speaking of passion. The first was Isabel Allende giving a TED talk telling “Tales of Passion.” The second was a blog I follow on WordPress about “The Follow Your Passion Fallacy.” Both were interesting in their own right. However, I was struck with their relation to the… Read More
Do You Expect or Create?
I learn so much from my kids. I don’t know who’s wiser. Earlier this week, my wife and I had to get after them for bickering and even fighting. Well, my 8-year-old daughter smacked my 4-year-old son for something she didn’t like. We had to have discussions with both of them about how our son… Read More
Honoring Our Feedback
I recently attended an on-line Writer’s Digest bootcamp for finding and keeping a literary agent put on by the ladies of the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency. It was an excellent learning opportunity concerning inquiry letters and the first few pages of any book. After incorporating the advice, we were allowed to submit our inquiry letter… Read More
Creating Bright Lines for Ourselves
Last time we talked about our daily problems and seeing them for what they are, a disconnect between what happens and our expectations of what happens. We don’t see things as they are. We see things as we believe or want them to be. We interpret our experience to fit the mold of our mental… Read More
Why do problems abound?
Everyday we are faced with problems. Some are as benign as making sure to use the restroom when we are out and about. Some are full-fledged issues that required our full attention. Then there are the problems that haunt us day after day like the time we spend at work instead of our family, sexual… Read More
Business of You 