When the Pursuit of Your Passion IS Your Passion

POSTED: 05-27-2016 IN: Uncategorized

I’ve been waiting…and waiting…and waiting for spring to come and to get outside to look for my beloved morel mushrooms. Not that I haven’t been looking…out car windows and while on walking meetings, during teambuilding retreats and every chance I get!  And this weekend, (Memorial Weekend!) was going to be the culmination of my morel season – three full days on the farm with my family, nothing but mushroom hunting with my wife and sons, surrounded by nature.

At least that’s how it was going to happen.  As it turns out, the thoughts I was thinking in my head never made it to my wife’s ears.  And now we have other plans, and my hunt is not to be.  And you know what? It’s fine with me.  Because I love hunting for morels.  And I’ve been doing it all spring, and I’ll do it next spring too.  My passion is for hunting morels, not picking or eating, but seeking out the clues and finding all their secret hiding spots.  It’s like a mystery made just for me.  And I love it.

So it got me to thinking about how much of my spirit, my soul, is fulfilled by hunting.  Building companies? Hunting! Finding talent? Hunting!  Making connections? Hunting!  Finding out what makes people tick? Hunting!  The pursuit of my passions is my passion.

Now is the time to dig in, hunters, and figure out what your passion is.  What are the actions that make you happy?  What days leave your heart and soul feeling satisfied?  My bet is those aren’t the days you finished something, but the days you spent pursuing what you love.  Last week, I wrote how people are what they do. If action is the thing that defines us, then my mantra continues to be: I hunt, therefore I am.  What’s yours?

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