Pursuing Your Passion
Have you ever felt that you are just floating around, adrift with no particular destination? You wake up in the morning and prepare your self for work. Get to work and find your self with a whole days tasks awaiting to get done and yet at the end of the day, you look back only to find emptiness. You sit there thinking you want some change, you want clearer direction, a goal to pursue, a challenge to face, a bigger contribution, to find your reason for being. “How to start?” you ask your self? “How much am I willing to risk in order to find true meaning?” The answer sends chills down your spine. The prospect of throwing yourself out of your comfort zone scares the heck out of you. So you go to sleep deciding you cannot afford to go out of your comfort zone. “Maybe someday,” you say “when my fears are gone and the time is right, I will do what I am set out to do.” Every night the thought of wanting to do what you really want to do, nags you, haunts you, coaxes you to do something. You dream of a thousand “what-ifs.” What if I have the power to do what I want to do, what would it be? What if pursuing my passion involves taking a lot of risk, would I pursue it? What if I fail, will I be able to accept it? You think of countless possibilities. Until you decide, enough wondering and wandering! This is what you want to do and nothing will get in the way of what you are set out to do. You reorganize your life to make way for your pursuit of passion. Dangers hang like the sword of Damocles over your head. You are aware but you take no heed. You are excited by the chase. You want success but the journey is the one that is giving you joy. You look back at your previous life and see how comfortably at ease back then. It invites you to come back to the comfort of your own box, but you tell yourself, not until I give up trying, which is not going to be anytime soon! It happened to me. Last month, I started pursuing my real passion. I let go of my comfortable full time job as an HR Director, and went into freelance consulting where one can experience feast or famine depending on the amount of effort when exerts and how the market responds. I used to be a full time HR director and part time consultant, now I am a fulltime freelance consultant and a part time HR Director…:D Am I afraid? Of course I am! But I’m happy doing what I really want to do… teach, share part of my self to a lot more people and yes to pursue my passion for communicating as I do now!
You, what is your passion?
