Continuous Learning

I recently spoke with a friend who said that she has no real passion in life. She feels that work is all there is, and there is nothing that she cares about, and that she rather works on community services instead. Having worked in the same line of work as she did before, I know what she’s talking about. In the consulting business, while it might seem glamorous from outside, the truth is that it takes a special type of people to really love meeting impossible and contradictory demands time after time from your boss as well as clients.

However, when she started to talk about community service, she switched into a different mode. Her eyes light up, her speech rate is faster and voice elevated, and she gets a lot more animated. Without missing a beat, she went on and tell me about the latest mentoring program that they have for youth, and how it focuses on providing kids with multiple role models to offset the challenges of having only a couple of role models that might disappear later, and that the program shows high promises than other mentoring models. She practically becomes a different person. Right there and then, she just found her passion - volunteering.

Without a doubt in my mind, passion is one of the strongest indicators for future success. Most people in this world are living in the rat race, without realizing that while the rat race provides a paycheck, it sucked away a bigger part of ourselves - our spirit. Most of us grow up having a dream - Keep reading →