- Put your heart into everything.
- Release all your energy into everything you do. Your passion is infinite; let it pour out of you.
- This passion, combined with the intensity of your dreams, can move mountains, literally.
- Don’t worry if you don’t yet know what it is. When it is ready it will come out on its own.
- You can’t choose it, change it, or slowly acquire a new one.
- If you must find it, remove all ego, but don’t let the subsequent conscious understanding put walls around it.
- Look back at yourself from the future. Is there anything you would regret not doing? Do it.
- All the elements (family, dreams, play, etc.) in your life are probably already aligned around your passion.
- Yes, you get to do it for a living — which is basically saying you get to live to live.
- Not one soul can assign or even characterize your passion, not even you.
Your Dad’s Lesson:
As I observed people making great strides in their lives and superstars being seemingly born into greatness, I began to wonder if the deli had forgotten to call my number. I created matrices of my talents, key elements in my upbringing, things I liked to do, and so on, hoping that I would stumble upon one definitive answer. Looking back, it is ironic that I was trying to find one thing that would make me tick, when unpredictability and variety are major factors that get me up in the morning. After a few years, I stopped trying to figure it out and I just let the energy pour out of me. If an idea came into my head, I would pursue it; if something felt right, I would do it. What I found is that it is the passion that matters most, not what you are applying it to.
