Own Your Life: Be The Hero Of Your Own Life

People infect themselves with the disease of “not knowing” what they love. That is understandable, because pretty much nobody is born knowing their passion is. You may think Bill Gates was born with the passion of inventing Windows, but what if he was born 1,000 years ago? What if he was born in a third world country in the slums? This realization is terrifying to many people because there are endless possibilities. Many people have this romantic vision of what their life of passion truly looks like. They think it should feel like the first 3 months of dating your partner. When the honeymoon phase fades away, sometimes we feel hollow, like this isn’t our genuine passion.
There are highs and lows to every endeavor and passion. The key question is, do the highs carry and commit you deeper during the lows? Passion isn’t a life plan that will dawn on you while you rest on a bed of nails in a deep Himalayan cave.

What you are looking for is not a person, place or thing, at least a long-term passion.
The problem is that passion is mistaken for an emotion, and emotions come and go with the wind.
Passion is not something that will be the same over your entire life for many.
It feels daunting for many people because they feel like they have a limited amount of time to make a decision. A decision that will haunt them for the rest of their lives.

Passion is an action that gives you energy. Notice the things you do in your daily life. What gives you energy and what takes energy from you? Follow the feeling of freedom. Follow what makes you feel complete, even if you get moments of stress from doing the challenging and worthwhile. The more challenging the pursuit, the juicier the reward.
Every task of your passion won’t give you energy, but does your passion give or take energy from you overall? When you hit a high from a passion, you won’t want to stop working on it. You will obsess over it before, during, and after normal work hours. You feel invigorated when your alarm clock goes off. In fact, you don’t need an alarm clock, the obsession of your dream wakes you up. That initial spark at the beginning of the journey will become your “why” and from there you cultivate your passion to blossom into a majestic garden of skill, joy and purpose.