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Living Your Passion


We all begin imagining what we're going to be when we grow up. As we grow up and learn more about ourselves and how life works, our career ideas change and grow. As we experience new relationships, hobbies and events in our lives, we also develop wider interests and ultimately we become passionate about some of them too.

Unfortunately, many people fail to live a life filled with passion. Fearful of rejection or of success keeps many people from pursuing their dreams; many people simply don't have enough faith in themselves to reach for the stars.

It's these passions that make the stresses of life easier to bear and share. What may have been a strong passion in our early twenties may very change considerably in our forties or fifties. We may discover that the career we chose in college is no longer satisfying our needs, especially once our basic needs have been satisfied. Perhaps our passion was just to make enough money to pay the bills, now our passions in our fifties may include desires to help others and support causes bigger than ourselves. We grow in personal skills, and for instance we find that we are talented in public speaking; and you prefer to be talking about your passion and making money at the same time?

So what makes you happy?

Do you have a hobby that you just can't get enough of?

Take the step of writing down any way that you could make money at doing your favorite thing and try it in your spare time. You might find a new career doing exactly what you are passionate about!

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Living Your Passion News

2010-09-07

Cesar Millan hitting road for Great White North tour - Toronto Sun (blog)

2010-09-06
Cesar Millan hitting road for Great White North tourToronto Sun (blog)Decide that you want to be – something, a janitor, a cyclist – I don't care, but focus on your passion … my grandfather and father were very influential in ...

Haiti quake survivor returns home after 6 months - The Associated Press

2010-09-06
Haiti quake survivor returns home after 6 monthsThe Associated PressAnd he shares that passion with his young patient. Suy was born poor in southern Haiti and sent as a boy to live with an aunt in Port-au-Prince and attend ...and more »

Heather Everett - Beachside Resident

2010-09-06
Beachside ResidentHeather EverettBeachside Resident“With a persistence in your passion, methods to your madness, and that it's okay to be a successful artist while you are living,” she explains. ...

Stories from 1st day of school - Detroit Free Press

2010-09-07
Stories from 1st day of schoolDetroit Free PressShe also has a master's degree in counseling from Oakland University. She works in foreclosure real estate but her passion is screenwriting.and more »

Voice of 'The Simpsons' Speaking Up for New Orleans: Q&A with Harry Shearer - Huffington Post (blog)

2010-09-06
Voice of 'The Simpsons' Speaking Up for New Orleans: Q&A with Harry ShearerHuffington Post (blog)But they're there because they have "passion." If you ever go on one of these shows, that's what they whisper in your ear: "Energy! Energy! ...and more »

Define your career by living your passion – an interview with ...

2010-09-02
Many entrepreneurs and small business owners know how to turn this passion into a career – with insights from this interview with Norry Ascroft, you can.

Mac Lake » Blog Archive » Looking for a Promotion

2010-09-07
Contrast this with living your passion. When we live out of passion our time, energy and efforts are focused on producing results that move the mission forward. It's passion that leads us to gladly sacrifice for the cause. ...

Career Choices: Deciding for Yourself - Nike Hyperize Sale

2010-09-06
What is there to leap out of bed for in the morning if you're not prepared to live your passion, if you're not prepared to put your foot on the gas and see where it takes you. And, because normal people have nothing to leap out of bed ...

Passion | IntegralLiving's Blog

2010-09-06
Passion. Posted on September 6, 2010 by Integral Living. Have you ever sat in a small dim lit lounge, with the tannins of a vintage Merlot stimulating your palate, while a live jazz band plays so close you could reach out and touch them ...

Why Passion Won't Build a Business : The Anti-coach Blog

2010-09-06
You can live a life of passion-filled meaning by consciously choosing to partner with an employer that has similar values, alignment of purpose, and can utilize your passionate skills. This is a perfectly valid path, and anyone who ...

@4everBrandy i hold y gentle/smile bright, your the love of my rights, the passion of my heart, the sense of my living, the strenght i trust

2010-09-07
@4everBrandy i hold y gentle/smile bright, your the love of my rights, the passion of my heart, the sense of my living, the strenght i trust

@JIDF Keep your religion as your passion, David. It's something worth living for. It's something worth dying for. Not many things are.

2010-09-07
@JIDF Keep your religion as your passion, David. It's something worth living for. It's something worth dying for. Not many things are.

RT @knwdance: #LIVING What's your Passion? Are you Dying to Live? What Dream are you ready to get serious about and pursue wholeheartedly?

2010-09-06
RT @knwdance: #LIVING What's your Passion? Are you Dying to Live? What Dream are you ready to get serious about and pursue wholeheartedly?

#LIVING What's your Passion? Are you Dying to Live? What Dream are you ready to get serious about and pursue wholeheartedly?

2010-09-06
#LIVING What's your Passion? Are you Dying to Live? What Dream are you ready to get serious about and pursue wholeheartedly?

Are you living a passionate life? Learn about @RichGerman's new book: Monetize Your Passion - Free Book - http://bit.ly/MYPfreeBook #MYP

2010-09-06
Are you living a passionate life? Learn about @RichGerman's new book: Monetize Your Passion - Free Book - http://bit.ly/MYPfreeBook #MYP