This is why passion is so important to your career, business and life:
Live you passion. What does that mean, anyway? It means that when you get up for work every morning, every single morning, you are pumped because you get to talk about or work with or do the thing that interests you the most in the world. You don’t live for vacations because you don’t need a break from what you’re doing–working, playing, and relaxing are one and the same. You don’t even pay attention to how many hours you’re working because to you, it’s not really work. You’re making money, but you’d do whatever it is you’re doing for free.
Gary Vaynderchuk – “Crush It!“
BOOKS
Linchpin – Are You Indispensable?
Crush It! – Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion
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Personal Branding Tip: What if I’m a Jack of All Trades?
“Everyone always says to talk about what you’re an expert with or what you’re passionate about, but what if you have a lot of different passions and don’t feel like you’re an expert at any of them. I feel that I’m in that area. I’m kind of like a Jack of all trades, master of none.”
What’s Your Passion
Themes: transitioning between passions, transferring skills and strengths
What If You Have More Than One Passion?
I know I may incite a lot of disagreement for saying this: but I believe that it’s completely okay to have multiple passions and to pursue all of them.
8 Ways to Bring Your Creative Passions to Work
Many people find themselves in similar situations. You have creative pursuits you enjoy OUTSIDE work, but can’t imagine incorporating them into your day job to make it more enjoyable. If you feel that’s your situation, it doesn’t have to be.
How to Find What You’re Passionate For (And Get Paid For It)
Themes: strengths, applying your passion
Finding Your Calling: Part I, II, III, IV, V
We want a job that doesn’t actually feel like a job. Something that uses our talents and brings us great satisfaction. What we really want isn’t a job at all; we want a vocation, a calling.
What Makes You Come Alive?
One of the stumbling blocks to realizing what lights us up can be society’s expectations and other people’s opinions. However well meaning these opinions and expectations may be, it does us good to switch them off so we can listen to our own voice.
Are Passions Serendipitously Discovered or Painstakingly Constructed?
My point here is that “passion” seems to be a common source of problems. For some, they have too many passions and don’t know where to focus their energies. For others, it’s the lack of a passion, or maybe a belief that their particular passion won’t bring them somewhere worth going.
Beyond Passion: The Science of Loving What You Do
As I argued before, your love of the subject will grow with your sense of autonomy and competence.
How I Found My Passion
My advice is simple: Pick something. Do it with all your heart. If you can’t keep your heart in it, do something else. Repeat. Few people have the courage to do this, even for a year, much less a lifetime. But my suspicion is if you ask passionate people how they make choices, this is what you’ll hear.
Ain’t No Job Gonna Hold Me Down
You’re one of the few with the vision to see what lies ahead, and even though everyone else around you is trying to convince you that the world is flat, you know better.
