Pursuing Your Passion
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
When I mention pursuing your passion I get a variety of different responses because the concept means various things to different people. In even mentioning the phrase, some listeners will immediately go to their deepest desires, evoking pictures of romantic interludes. To others, pursuing your passion may mean “getting on your grind” and rarely coming up for air…. and LOVING IT.
I am definitely referring to the latter scenario, where in pursuing your passion you lose track of time, reality, and all that is outside of your laser focus.
Is that degree of pursuit healthy?
Sometimes it is – if it exists for but a season. As we journey through life we learn that everything comes with a price and that there is typically a yin/yang thing going on that demands balance. Taking too much from one end will necessitate a price being paid, whether you are aware of it or not.
Pursuing Your Passion Does Have Benefits
1. Minimizes distractions
2. Gets you to the end goal faster
3. Increases your skill level with that particular activity
4. Provides a huge sense of satisfaction
5. Allows you to determine if this specific passion is really worth the cost it demands
And it is on point number five that I want to dwell for a moment. Pursuing your passion calls for sacrifice in other areas. And if everyone is not on the same team with you, they may feel edged out even though that is not your intention.
How do you get around that?
Open communication. It can be very effective to get your “team mates” around you (some call them family members) and say – these are my intentions for the next ninety days. This is my goal and in order to accomplish it, I am going to have to go into a tunnel vision mindset. And because of that, I will be out of the normal family routine for a while.
And when I come out, on the other end, we can celebrate, make up for lost time, and bring things back into balance. When you are set on pursuing your passion, you must convey to the team that you are actually putting a lot on the line for them. Make sure they know that you know that…
you are doing the things today, that others won’t,
so you can have the things tomorrow that others won’t.
Somebody has got to pay the price, because stuff just ain’t free. Now your “thrill on blueberry hill” might not be readily visible to the onlookers, but share with them that pursuing your passion is bigger than your home based business; it’s bigger than winning accolades from your company’s headquarters.
Pursuing your Passion has to point to an end that is way greater than the means. Your business should be just a vehicle to help provide for you the things that really matter – financial peace, security, options, a future that looks bright.
At the ripe young age of 10 years old, Jaylin Fleming has quite the head on his shoulders that points to balance, sacrifice, expectation and excellence. He has the art of pursuing your passion, down to a science. You will enjoy and appreciate what the character and maturity he brings to the table – I think we can all learn something from him.
Onward and Upward,
Coach Kim
PS A decision that points to you NOT pursuing your passion and just going along with the tide, promises you a life of mediocrity at best and great disappointment at the worst. If you want to learn the grace and victory and fulfillment of pursuing your passion, CLICK HERE.