Passion and Other Stuff
Lately it’s hit me how few people live in their passion, and it makes me sad. To live in your passion means to actually LIVE life. When you live in your passion, you perform at a level so much higher, it sometimes seems unreal. Trust me, it’s real.
So how do you live in your passion? The first step is to identify your passion. What is your passion? The thing that, when you are doing it, you feel like a 5 year old kid again, playing without a care in the world. I think that is a question that many people can’t answer. I don’t know why people have a hard time identifying their passion – perhaps they have been conditioned by parents, society or some other external force, to put it aside. I certainly meet a lot of people who cannot say what their true passion is – we don’t stay connected for very long, because I’ve found that those people often live the victim life, and I just don’t get along well with victim’s.
If you have already figured out your passion, I congratulate you. If you haven’t, when do you plan on doing so?
I had an email conversation with a friend recently, just catching up with what is going on in our lives over the 18 months since we last saw each other. We both work as coaches to real estate agents, and have been fortunate to have each taught the other some pretty amazing things. After our conversation, though, I noticed one big difference between us, a difference in how we work. My contention is that the vast majority of people who have a coach do not have one for the right reasons. In fact, I believe that many who have a coach love to be able to say they have a coach, as if that autonomically makes them better at their work, yet they are not willing to make the changes and do the work necessary for success.
I mentioned to my friend that I play a game of baseball with my clients – 3 strikes and you’re out of the coaching program. A strike means not doing the required work, not showing up for a call, that sort of thing. I do that for a couple of reasons:
- If they do not show up for calls or do not do the work, they will just think the coaching doesn’t work. They’ll blame everything and everyone except themselves. That does neither them or me any good, so best to end the relationship.
- I cannot, in good conscience, just take their money if they are not achieving the results they desire, or anything close to it. History has proven that those who follow my programs and actually do the work find the success they are looking for, so it’s not the programs. Sure, I’d like the money, but more importantly, I do not want to be one of those coaches I hear agents talking about all the time, saying how they spent thousands of dollars and got no results.
I know I am in the great minority of coaches by choosing to adopt this philosophy, and that’s okay with me. You see, I’ve found my passion and I live it every day.
I’d love to hear what you passion is, and how you live it every day. If you need help figuring it out, word has it that there are lots of books out there on the subject.