16/02: Find Your Passion
Category: Encouragement For Life
Posted by: wingnut
My life’s journey has taught me a lot about myself that I’d love to have known back in high school. For one thing, the driving force behind my most enthusiastic endeavors has nothing to do with the ideals I thought I had. However, I find that my most passionate efforts include all the same ingredients that kept me intrigued thirty years ago.
So why didn’t I pursue the careers that kept those tasks I enjoyed so much? Stupidity and impatience. If I had known what questions to ask myself and how to answer them for myself I would have finished the right degree program in college instead of bouncing from one game plan to another before giving up and making a not-so-graceful exit from student life.
Today I find myself working at a job I’d never thought I’d enjoy. I do tasks I actually hate. But I enjoy the job. Why? Because the essence of doing the job well allows me to interact with people in doses, then retreat to my own thoughts (although this routine does not occur by my timing or design).
My previous three jobs required a lot more of the creative process that I truly enjoy, but gave me little to no control how to use what I was so good at. As a result I’d leave work at the end of the day depleted of energy or desire to work on any creative project at home.
Because my current job requires very little of my creative brainpower, I have room in there to ponder at work the ideas I want to tackle at home. I have full control over each project I wish to try and the only deadlines are those I set upon myself. What freedom!
Such is my motivating force for writing, crafts, web design, music, and all those many things I try to master on my own time. This leads to the relationship side of the passion/priority coin.
How passionate am I to develop and nurture my relationship with my God, husband, children and friends? How devoted am I to nurturing those characteristics within me that will keep me “good” and moving forward to maturity?
One day I’ll finish this path and pass my baton to someone else. Then I’ll have to account for how well I traveled the course charted for me. If I’m graded on how passionately I made that journey, I have to wonder if I pass.
What about you?
So why didn’t I pursue the careers that kept those tasks I enjoyed so much? Stupidity and impatience. If I had known what questions to ask myself and how to answer them for myself I would have finished the right degree program in college instead of bouncing from one game plan to another before giving up and making a not-so-graceful exit from student life.
Today I find myself working at a job I’d never thought I’d enjoy. I do tasks I actually hate. But I enjoy the job. Why? Because the essence of doing the job well allows me to interact with people in doses, then retreat to my own thoughts (although this routine does not occur by my timing or design).
My previous three jobs required a lot more of the creative process that I truly enjoy, but gave me little to no control how to use what I was so good at. As a result I’d leave work at the end of the day depleted of energy or desire to work on any creative project at home.
Because my current job requires very little of my creative brainpower, I have room in there to ponder at work the ideas I want to tackle at home. I have full control over each project I wish to try and the only deadlines are those I set upon myself. What freedom!
Such is my motivating force for writing, crafts, web design, music, and all those many things I try to master on my own time. This leads to the relationship side of the passion/priority coin.
How passionate am I to develop and nurture my relationship with my God, husband, children and friends? How devoted am I to nurturing those characteristics within me that will keep me “good” and moving forward to maturity?
One day I’ll finish this path and pass my baton to someone else. Then I’ll have to account for how well I traveled the course charted for me. If I’m graded on how passionately I made that journey, I have to wonder if I pass.
What about you?
