"I wish school was as fast as summer and summer as slow as school."
Said by 9 yo Daughter of Jon Acuff
To a young budding professor it would go something like this: "I wish school was as slow as summer and summer as fast as school."
What is the difference?
Passion.
When doing what you are passionate about, the time just flies by.
When passion doesn't exist, time seems to stand still.
Examples;
1. A fisherman will happily wait all day for a bite; but not appreciate having to wait 2 minutes for the traffic lights to turn green.
2. A young couple in love will spend hours on the phone to each other; but be too busy to listen for 5 minutes to their parents advice.
3. A self employed person (someone who has made a job out of his hobby) will spend 60 hours per week on the job and not think about it; a person on salary will begrudge every minute he has to work over the 40 hours he is paid for.
So what are you passionate about? Are you passionate about anything? Or has life chocked the life out of your passion?
Good news! Your passion may be in a coma, it may even be on life support; but don’t turn off the life support, increase the oxygen. How, I hear you ask? By asking yourself some questions.
After I had lost my wife and then lost my job, the two things that identified me, I had to find the real me. It was at this time that a very wise person asked me 3 questions:
1. What floats your boat?
2. What excites you?
3. What makes you angry?
Examples:
1. Does the birth of a baby, not just your own, excite you? Does the knowledge that a baby has been aborted make you angry? Then babies float your boat and you would have a fair amount of passion for any job that included caring for babies.
2. Does the sound of a well tuned engine excite you? Does the sound of an unkept, roughly running engine make you want to grab for your toolbox and fix it? I think you would make a great mechanic, but be hopeless working in an office.
Neither of these is me; but you need to find you. So answer those three questions:
1. What floats you boat?
2. What excites you?
3. What makes you angry?
Then start taking steps to do what you want to do, what you are wired to do.
Start enjoying life. Your enjoyment will be catching and others will want to be around you. Other people may agree with your complaints, even be in the same situation, but they want to get away from their problems, not hang around with them. If they are the people that seem to enjoy complaining, you don't want to be around them.
Ask the questions, start taking steps, and then you are no longer a Chicken or a Turkey scratching in the dirt; you are on your way to becoming an Eagle soaring high, and in charge of your destiny.
Said by 9 yo Daughter of Jon Acuff
To a young budding professor it would go something like this: "I wish school was as slow as summer and summer as fast as school."
What is the difference?
Passion.
When doing what you are passionate about, the time just flies by.
When passion doesn't exist, time seems to stand still.
Examples;
1. A fisherman will happily wait all day for a bite; but not appreciate having to wait 2 minutes for the traffic lights to turn green.
2. A young couple in love will spend hours on the phone to each other; but be too busy to listen for 5 minutes to their parents advice.
3. A self employed person (someone who has made a job out of his hobby) will spend 60 hours per week on the job and not think about it; a person on salary will begrudge every minute he has to work over the 40 hours he is paid for.
So what are you passionate about? Are you passionate about anything? Or has life chocked the life out of your passion?
Good news! Your passion may be in a coma, it may even be on life support; but don’t turn off the life support, increase the oxygen. How, I hear you ask? By asking yourself some questions.
After I had lost my wife and then lost my job, the two things that identified me, I had to find the real me. It was at this time that a very wise person asked me 3 questions:
1. What floats your boat?
2. What excites you?
3. What makes you angry?
Examples:
1. Does the birth of a baby, not just your own, excite you? Does the knowledge that a baby has been aborted make you angry? Then babies float your boat and you would have a fair amount of passion for any job that included caring for babies.
2. Does the sound of a well tuned engine excite you? Does the sound of an unkept, roughly running engine make you want to grab for your toolbox and fix it? I think you would make a great mechanic, but be hopeless working in an office.
Neither of these is me; but you need to find you. So answer those three questions:
1. What floats you boat?
2. What excites you?
3. What makes you angry?
Then start taking steps to do what you want to do, what you are wired to do.
Start enjoying life. Your enjoyment will be catching and others will want to be around you. Other people may agree with your complaints, even be in the same situation, but they want to get away from their problems, not hang around with them. If they are the people that seem to enjoy complaining, you don't want to be around them.
Ask the questions, start taking steps, and then you are no longer a Chicken or a Turkey scratching in the dirt; you are on your way to becoming an Eagle soaring high, and in charge of your destiny.