| Friday, February 25, 2011

Well guys, it’s been a great week talking to all of you about our ideas on passion, after reading Gary Vaynerchuk’s book.

Not only have I been ably to think about how to apply the ideas to my own life and discover where I need to go next, but I’ve also discovered—thanks to your comments and the conversations with my students—that all of us have our passion for something and that you can discover what it is for you in about five minutes if you ask yourself the right questions.

The receptionist who loves Michael Jackson, a biologist whose true love is the sea, a geneticist who lights up when she talks about history, a gynaecologist who loves football, a computer engineer who always wanted to cook…

Ask yourself about your passion, too

Some of you have told me that our thoughts have also inspired you to think about your own passions.

That is really great, and I would definitely encourage you to do it as soon as you can. Jonathan even said he had been inspired to write his own post about passion on his blog next week.

Ask yourself what you read about all day long, which subject in your life hasn’t gone away since you were a teenager and, best of all, ask 20 friends to describe you in three or four words and listen carefully to their answers. For those people who know you, your passion is as obvious to them as theirs is to you.

For me, as Luz said last night, my journalist’s vocation has won me over, more so than teaching and translation.

It’s time to talk about our world.

Have you got the balls…?

Once you’ve discovered your passion, however, when you’ve finally found out what it is that won’t leave you in peace, when, as Helen said in a comment,  you’ve found that subject which makes you  shout at the TV with indignation, have you got the balls to do something about it?

Which is to day: you have a normal enough life, which basically works and lets you earn a living. But there was something which wouldn’t leave you alone all that time; and now you’ve realised what it is.

Will you change your life? Will you let yourself be taken along by your passion, wherever it takes you?

I will.

And what changes? Where do you start?

If you’ve got enough balls to do something about it, where on earth do you start?

With the new beginning, the new main aim: to live and communicate your passion. The how and the when and the where is the least of your worries for the moment.

The structure of my blog will change, and so will the organisation of the rest of the site, as well as the explanations about what it is I’m trying to do with all this.

And I’ll have to create the new structure, the new framework within which we’re going to discover and talk about our world.

I will enjoy thinking about how to do that and, as a friend mentioned on Twitter this morning, letting that passion show me the way esta mañana.

I already have some ideas…

Do you…?