Life’s Passion

Could you take your passion in life, right now, and do it for the rest of your life, regardless of whether it ever earned a single cent? Would you continue to share your knowledge with the world for free? Is it worth sacrificing for?

The answers to these questions will help you identify your passion and determine just how passionate you truly are. Words are great, but what about action?

I’ve been thinking for the past two years about work and passion — including the relationship between the two. I’m looking at the idea of a zero-hour workweek, and the existence of true passion. A place where you are so passionate about what you do — your skills, talents and abilities that you share and contribute to the world — that you could care less if you ever earned another cent for it, and you would still sacrifice your time and possibly money to contribute that knowledge to others. Mix this idea with one where your work and play are indistinguishable from each other and you’re paid to merely do what you love. This is the Passionate Zero-Hour Workweek.

What is greatest about this is that anyone can do it. If and only if it is truly your passion and others can see that passion in you. There are people who do this everyday, and they are not all millionaires, but they are all happy — at least in a human sense, and at least temporarily. These concepts do, at first blush, leave God out. However for a Christian, this makes you reliant on God to help — for God to step toward the middle as you approach from the other side — and helps build your relationship with Him further.

I’ve found it takes a few restless nights and a couple heartbreaks to really start to wrap your head around the whole concept. Sometimes, you can’t fully get the idea until you’re at the bottom looking up. At some point, when you get it, and decide you’re dedicated enough and passionate enough to go for it — you’ll jump off the diving board at the top of this skyscraper of thought and you’ll trust God and trust (some of) your built-in instincts to build your own parachute on the way down, deploying it into the wind with enough time to glide over the ocean that separates thinkers from doers and finally come to rest on the other side in the Promised Land.

Turn your thoughts into action and succeed.

This should be fun. Keep your eyes peeled for an upcoming article or article series on being passionate titled, “Be an Authority on Passion.” I’ll look forward to reading your comments!