Release the Passion
Passion is the true essence of your being. It is the thing closest to your heart. It is your heart. It is everything you hang on to when the ocean of life gets choppy. It is the thing you immerse yourself in when you need a mental vacation. That is true passion, and it’s inside everyone, waiting to be awakened…but not just awakened—released!
Imagine the passion inside of you locked up like a bird in a cage. There it lies, lifeless and useless. Maybe you went a long time without feeding it, and it lost all its energy. Or perhaps you let someone else handle it and they were too rough. Now it’s broken and retreated to the back of the cage so that no one can mess with it again. Regardless of whatever circumstance caused your passion to end up lifeless in that cage, it is there nonetheless.
The first step is to awaken it, as I’ve talked about in most of my previous blogs. Awakening passion inside requires that we first acknowledge the passion is there. So many people brush it off as an “artsy,” impractical entity, when the truth is passion is the fuel for life! Discover what you love to do and do it!
What I didn’t realize until now is that you can awaken the passion all you want, but it must also be released. A very close friend of mine was encouraging me to write more and said, almost in passing, “Release the passion.” It hit me so hard that I had to stop everything I was doing just so I could write this blog. (If you’re a writer, you understand the need to get something out right away.)
Sometimes it takes another person besides me to acknowledge the passion that’s in my heart. Life gets in the way, and it’s easy to forget about the things in the depths of my soul that keep me going and give flavor to my life. So when someone else has the ability to look in and see the passion, that is a valuable advantage.
Regardless of how the passion gets awakened, whether by yourself or someone else, only YOU have the power to release it. Open that cage, and give the beautiful bird space to spread its wings. It will make you feel alive and free.
“Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.”
Your on your way to greatness.
Baby steps…like in “What about Bob”
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