Hi Priscilla

What is Passion? How do we know it when we have it?  Is it possible to passionate about your job, relationship, hobby….  one moment and the next not so much? Yes? Why are some people better at being/showing passion then others. Is Passion a emotion, frame of mind, or way of being?

I’ll be frank.  I very much dislike the whole Passion -Purpose movement. Even the most Passionate purpose driven people I know feel like their faking it. Some terrified that if they look to deep they won’t like what they see. Who am I if its not what I do and can’t do that with “Passion”?  Oh the suffering we create for ourselves in  this search of validated measurement passion.

The problem I think is that humans are terrible at measuring things like Passion and Purpose.   How often do we measure and label something  like passion and happiness where the act of measuring makes it disappear. Sadly the same is not the same for measuring things like sadness or anger were the act of measuring tends to feed the experience.  That might suggest, as you hint at, that Passion is more of a mind set, a way of Being more so then a doing.

A parable about the three bricklayers. A traveler came upon three men working. He asked the first man what he was doing and the man said he was laying bricks. He asked the second man the same question and he said he was putting up a wall. When he got to the third man and asked him what he was doing he said he was building a cathedral.

Three people doing the same thing the only difference was perspective, the big picture verses the small.  But Have we made a assumptions as it might concern purpose and passion? Latter on in the story we learn that the first man was very passionate about laying bricks. A man who was passion focused on the details and art of his task.  Who is to say which man had the most or “better” passion or purpose?

I have a great job where I work with wonderful people and feel valued as an employee but I still feel a void. The work I do isnt making any impact in the world

There are 7.7 billion people in the world. How do we measure which ones make more or less a impact on the ‘world’?

If a “flap of a butterfly wings” impacts the weather (all things are connected) everything we do matters and has purpose that we can be intentional and passionate about.

Enjoying your work with  people that you value and that value you, creating the conditions that you get to encourage, support and grow… in is huge!.  The Love and care you share with others as you do what you do, that has impact! Could that be your passion?