“Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress: Working hard for something we love is called passion.”
Passion! Having a job or hobby can add a lot of pleasure to your life. The key thing is to have a harmonious passion and not an obsessive passion for sustainability and reducing unnecessary negative stress to your life.
For me, my passion is to help people move better through yoga therapy, pilates, and nutrition. I want to practice this passion for as long as I can and am looking for ways to make it more harmonious in my life - making this post not just helpful as resource for you but for me too.
Do you have a passion and are there ways you can make it more harmonious?
More Quotes on Passion
“All love may begin by being passionate, especially for younger people. But in the process of living together, they have to learn and practice love, so that selfishness — the tendency to possess—will diminish, and the elements of understanding and gratitude will settle in, little by little, until their love becomes nourishing, protecting, and reassuring,” (41).”
“There are two great disappointments in life. Not getting what you want and getting it.”
In Chapter 13 of 20 in his 2011 Capture Your Flag interview with host Erik Michielsen, author and leadership expert Simon Sinek shares what performing artists have taught him about preparation, process, and passion. Sinek finds passion matters on the bookends. It starts things.
Developing Harmonious Passion
- The Passion Co. - A company whose mission is "to inspire and enable a world where everyone is following their passions."
- Total Leadership - "The purpose of Total Leadership is to improve performance in all four domains of life: work, home, community, and self by creating mutual value among them."
- How To Increase Your Harmonious Passion
- How do harmonious passion and obsessive passion moderate the influence of a CEO's change-oriented leadership on company performance?
- On the development of harmonious and obsessive passion: the role of autonomy support, activity specialization, and identification with the activity.
- Jack Kornfield on Naming the Wanting Mind - A buddhist perspective on balancing your passion.
- Scott Barry Kaufman from Harvard Business Review on Why Your Passion for Work Could Ruin Your Career
In Chapter 16 of 16 in his 2009 Capture Your Flag interview, "Start With Why" author Simon Sinek shares why passion is a result and not an action. He shares that finding one's passion requires creating a process to make it actionable.