Put in the Work and the Passion Will Come

I recently heard an interesting concept that sort of goes against even what I have come to beleive is true. And that is you discover your passion after you put in the work for what you are involved in. In the 1940's and 50's, the idea of "follow your passion" started circulating around and American culture bought into that notion. The interesting thing is that hardly anyone knows what their passion is when just starting out in life (you are super blessed if you're one of the rare few). Author of So Good They Can't Ignore You (click the link to watch his talk on it), Cal Newport, stated (I'm paraphrasing) we sort of stumble into our passion as we hone our skills and build up the career capital necessary to become an expert. He postulated that that is when passion for what we do is born. It first starts with an interest, that interest turns into hours and hours of practice, and then we cross over into the threshold of passion. A very interesting idea.



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Work Your Creative Muscles

Creativity is a use it or lose it mental faculty. And it is also something that we must feed on a regular basis. The more we challenge ourselves to do things outside of the box and go above what we normally do, we are strengthening our creative prowess. One of the difficult tasks that naturally creative people have is finishing what they start. We always want to create something new which can lead to not finishing anything. Therefore, we must also use our creativity to find ways to stay inspired while working on long term goals.

Those Who Have Will Have More

Sleeping on our talents is something that is very easy to succeed at. It doesn't take much to not produce anything. The strain comes when we begin to exert the effort required to create something with the tools God has graciously given us. When we get over all the excuses why we are unable to do something and begin to take the first steps to make it happen, we then begin to unlock even more potential and resources that we didn't know were available to us. Go to work with what you have and new streams of resources will reveal themselves to you as you keep moving. This is an eternal law.