
Following your Passion.
It is encouraged but it doesn't have practical steps or reality.
The beginning is to understand that you can have different passions but you can only have one purpose. You were not designed for A and B but for A. All things works well to bring us to what God has designed for us to do and be.
Passion can lead to purpose. I usually think of purpose as Passion + reason. In order to benefit from your passion you have to put in a bucket. If you love photography start a photographic company, if you love cooking start a cooking show or restaurant, if you love playing soccer maybe you should be a coach, whatever that your passion is , there must be practicality , effort and patience.
Following your passion takes time. It is process. You have to find out what you are passionate about and make profit from it. Unless the passion pays bills it just burns the beholder. Understanding your passion starts from self - awareness. Self - awareness precedes happiness. We are not self - aware but we want to be like others ; it looks great and happiness seems to live in their lives - at least that is what we see.
People define themselves too much. I am this and I am that. It is good until you have change from field to the other. Reinventing yourself it is a daily work. If you don't reinvent yourself you will die. Careers changes fast. There are lot of dead - end career in our days. Unemployment is the bread which the graduate my eat with soft drinks of bitterness. Today you might have a job but you shouldn't be stupid. The Internet is going to eat everything. Your boss loves you because you help him or her to make money. If you cannot you leave.
Passion is like being in love. You know the goosebumps. But it doesn't last forever ; nothing is bad about that.
I always encourage people to try many things. It helps to make lot of connections in your brain. Every time you learn an unknown skill the brain create a new path. It is helpful. Learning more one skill helps you to short - circuit the 10 000 hours. If ideas have sex ideas multiply.
If you combine tool + box = toolbox , the idea sex is a very powerful.
