Hedgehog Concepts

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!