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Let me start by saying…I love my job. I didn’t say my job was easy. I didn’t say it was not without cost and conflict…but I love it, because I am passionate about what I do.

Thomas Edison said, “I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun!”

The key to finding your passion is knowing your purpose. You will achieve one without knowing the other.

Passion keeps us going when others quit. Passion is contagious.

It gives us the energy and drive to get through the obstacles, the hurdles, even the accusations.

Passion is the power we did not know we possessed. Passion is a real difference-maker. It is the “extra” in extraordinary.

The word passion is from the Latin passio, which means to suffer, to be acted upon. It is an emotion that is distinct from reason. Passion is an intense, driving, overriding devotion to an object or an activity.

I don’t believe that you can be a truly great leader if you are not passionate about what you do and the importance of the mission.

A truly great leader is consumed with the vision, the calling, the romance, the adventure, the insane possibilities and also the insane risks of everything they do. This doesn’t mean that you are flaky…just consumed, passionate, driven.

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1. People find it difficult to admit a deficiency.

People allow their disappointment to dampen their life instead of refine their determination to change.

2. People can’t live with mess.

Learning is messy.

Learning means you have to actively pursue failure.

I am a spectacular failure in many areas of my life – once upon a time that is the reason I am seeing success in some areas.

Failure is the fuel for personal growth.

3. We live in a state of judgment not learning instead of learning from life.

Learning from people or new situations we judge them.

We judge ourselves by what we can’t do.

We judge our lives by what we feel can’t take place.

We judge opportunities instead of appreciating them.

4. We fall into the ‘perfect people syndrome.’

We feel we are constantly on trail therefore we have to always present ourselves as being perfect.

The only way you can learn and grow is to identify a deficiency or a need or an area you desire to grow in.

5. We don’t give people permission to speak into our lives and situations.

We give life service to accountability.

We give lip service to submission.

We give lip service to the concepts of being pastured or coach.

But when it really comes down to it, what we are after is permission to stay the same, do the same, be the same.

We don’t like to be challenged because that implies a response.

And response imply choices.

And choice implies change.

And change implies learning.

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Human beings are creatures of comfort and convenience that shy away from arduous that produce stress & discomfort.

Most of life is lived by people in some sort of mindless trance.

Now this may save energy for the brain when we don’t have to consciously make choices, but it doesn’t bring to us any real level of satisfaction or fulfillment.

To design or in most cases, redesign your life so that you are living with conscious purpose not in unconscious trance, is the aim of a passionate coach…that is what I like to help people do.

I like to help people connect on a very deep & personal level to that and those that are deeply important to you, to Design the Blueprint for your life.

Design: to create, fashion, execute and construct according to a plan.

Blueprint: a detailed plan or program of action.

Remember we create our life through or intentions, our courage and or abilities.

We construct our world daily by the dreams that you have, the words that you speak the values that you hold and the decisions that you make.

Friend you need to inhabit your life, not just pass through it.

I often find myself talking to people about how to transition key staff members or key leaders within their organization either into new roles or into the next stage of there career…OUTSIDE of the organization.

And will all issues concerning dealing with people, there is a right way and the other way….

A Purpose Statement is a compass that helps keep you on course, it is the gyro that brings you back to center is you get out of kilter.

A Vision statement is a reflection of you calling. It is that vocation that you can give yourself to unreservedly.

It is the occupation that you can give yourself to unreservedly

A Mission statement is a statement that breaks down the particular, of you purpose & Vision statement. It is the fine print to there headline.

Together all 3 of these things will enable you to live from the inside out.

They will help you navigate a course in life of deep meaning purpose and personal satisfaction.