Doing What You Love

Under Self Help

We’ve all known people who seem to be a perfect fit for their jobs or their careers. Not only are they successful but delight in what they’re doing with a passion. We’ve also known people who are successful but despise what they’re doing with a passion. What’s the difference? Which category do you fall in?

If your prime motivation is the bottom line then maybe it doesn’t make any difference as long as you’re making money and providing for you and your family a desirable lifestyle. But, if you long for a job or career you can like and do with a passion then it may be a small more hard.

Right, some people just fall into their lifelong passion with small or no distress at all. Maybe they grew up in the family business, never knew anything else or cared to learn anything else and found contentment staying close to the nest. But, this is not the norm. Most of us seek to glide out of the comfortable nest and glide over the fence to see if the grass is greener.

It’s never too early or too late to learn your passions and act on them but first determine what you’re passionate about. When you know your own passions (and this is not simple matter) a whole new world of possibilities opens up.

Step back and take a close look at where you are now and what brought you there. Perhaps, you’re a plumber but long to travel. More than likely you’ll make more money being a plumber, but if you’re not pleased each day and dread going to work, then the bottom line is not your motivating factor. See, you’re learning about yourself already.

Look at your passions from all angles. In the case of travel, is it really the travel you like or is it exploring new lands and meeting new people. You could meet new people and make new friends in all kinds of endeavors.

Meeting lots of people as a plumber is usually limited. Maybe you delight in making travel plans and scheduling cruises and flights which could lead to a travel or tour business. It’s vital to search your passions from different directions.

What you reckon your passions are could be just admiration of others who do what you reckon you want to do. Would you like to become a writer but despise to sit down to a computer and write?

Do you admire a person who makes birdhouses for a living but you despise to be cooped up in a wood shop all day. Don’t confuse your passion with admiration. And be prepared for the realization that doing what you like will not always place bread on the table.

You can bet people who are working at whatever their passion spent long hours to get where they are today. But, if it’s truly your passion, getting there will be a joy. Explore your passions whether they’re a like of animals, gardening or photography and take these passions to the next step.

Learn all you can about your passion. Take a class or a course, volunteer or intern in the field you like. See where the path leads. It could lead you right back to where you were in the first place but you owe it to yourself to find out. Delight in the journey.

So, what do you reckon?