Passion - If you don't have it, you lose

03 Feb 2009

Passion…that is the one word that I would use to define myself if someone asked me to. I am passionate about my life, my family’s lives, and the life that I see me living in the future. I am passionate about my place in the world and about the gifts that I’ve been given. Passion is what drives me to the brink of insanity trying to create a life that I design rather than one that somebody else does.

I don’t know if you have any passion in your life, but I can tell you that a single day without it is like living in hell. The days where I felt lost and without hope were the darkest days of my life. The way that I got out of it, was by finding what drives me and what motivates me and inserting it directly into my life.

In the beginning, it was running – but that quickly manifested into racing and running in triathlons. I started this web 2.0 business thing again and I started finding money from places I’d never found it before. My world is on fire with passion now and the reason is not because I got lucky or stumbled upon something, but because I chose to make my life one that I wouldn’t be ashamed of. When I look back, when my children look back, I want to be proud. I don’t want to say I should have or could have, I want to talk about what it took to get there and how much I enjoyed it.

You see, the thing that seperates winners and losers, doers and dreamers, is passion. With passion, even the impossible becomes inevitable. Walls crumble and obstacles disappear. Passion is what can turn your life into the life you’ve always wanted to live.

So how do you do it? Well, I’m all about action plans, so let me share my plan with you.

Make a list of dreams you let die and categorize them by importance to you.
Make a list of the way you want to live; things you want to do and have and prioritize them by progression, i.e. in what order you will do/acquire them.
Find a way to connect the future with the present. Start taking the steps to do what you know must be done. Look, most people know what they have to do, but they are either scared or embarrassed. If you let emotions get in the way of your destiny, then you have failed yourself.
Go do it. Insert these actions into your life and start moving progessevily towards your goals. Cut out bad habits and things that deter you from your passion. Start believing in what you will become and watch it happen before your eyes. You have to feel it…you have to taste it. Convince yourself, and the rest – as they say – is history.

Quit reading blogs and start making your dreams come true.