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What's your PASSION?

As we get older, life can become rather routine and mundane. We all know this. We get up, eat breakfast, brush our teeth, get dressed, drive to work, spend eight or so hours in a cubicle, drive back home, eat dinner, watch TV, go to sleep, and do the same thing the next day. Rinse and repeat. 

Lucky for us, there's at least one thing about which we're passionate, which makes life a whole lot more tolerable. 

Passion gets us out of bed in the morning. It's like a great shot of adrenaline. It drives us to achieve something. It prompts us to push our limits. 

As Oprah once said:

"Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you."

As I've noted in other posts, my passions lie in:
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Learning (especially about psychology and history)
  • Animal welfare
  • Helping the less fortunate
Some of us are lucky enough to do what we're passionate about for a living. For example, you may love animals and work as a vet or animal shelter director. In my case, I get to do some writing in my day job, but politics and red tape prevent me from exercising creativity. Thus the reason why I chose to author this blog and write for other sites on the side. They're my creative outlets -- my true passions.

One of the great things about life is that we all have disparate interests and passions. You might find mine to be rather dull, but that's fine. Variety makes life more enriching. If we all had the same interests, there'd be nothing for us to share and teach others. A lot of men I know dig shooting ranges and "do it yourself" home projects, but these things don't tickle my fancy one bit. At the same time, I'd be hard-pressed to find someone who reads as many books as I do in a year. 

Whatever it is you love doing, keep doing it and getting better at it. It makes life all the more interesting!

So what is your passion? What really drives you? Are you able to get paid for doing it?

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