If Your Passion Doesn’t Scare You It’s Probably Not Your Passion
No one said finding your calling is easy, stop thinking it should be
How do you know if you’ve found your passion? It’s a hard question; I believed my passion was to work as a freelance IT Project Manager simply because it was familiar and my real passion scared the crap out of me, so I ignored it.
This is your life and you need to be making the right decisions about how to live it. So here’s the premise of this article:
You know you’ve found your passion because without a doubt, it scares the bejesus outta you.
It took me years to acknowledge my passions. I wanted to be a writer, I wanted to make videos and documentaries, and more than anything else, I wanted to perform stand up comedy.
When I finally acquiesced to these dreams my anxiety about hiding from them didn’t dissipate but immediately doubled as now I had to do them.
Once you decide what your passion is, the fear gets real. But fear is a compass; listen to it, learn from it, it’s trying to tell you something.
Here’s a quick thought experiment to prove the point: Consider something scary, such as swimming with sharks or playing the trumpet to a packed Royal Albert Hall. Undeniably…
