7 Slow and Steady Steps to Turn Your Passion Into Your Job
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This is a guest post by Skellie, who occasionally blogs at Skelliewag.org.
If there’s one thing most of us have in common, it’s that we want to work at something we love. It can be done, but it’s a process that will take time, and require steady progress. Be prepared to be patient, driven and single-minded about transforming ordinary work into your life’s work.
In this article, I want to share a step by step path for turning your passion into your job over months and years, not days. If you progress a little bit towards your goal each day, you’ll be stunned at what you can achieve.
5 Side Effects of Settling for a Second Best Life
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We all want to live the best life we possibly can, don’t we?
Whether it be having relationships we are happy with, doing work that fills us with passion, or trying to follow a healthy lifestyle, each of us would love to be satisfied with our daily lives.
Everyone has their own view of what their ideal life looks like, but we all have one thing in common -it takes a great deal of time, effort, and determination to turn it into a reality.
We can get thrown off course in our pursuit of this ‘better’ life and end up making do with an average way of living. We quietly accept a run-of-the-mill lifestyle and gradually forget about gaining that more fulfilling existence that fired us up in the first place.
This ‘second best will do’ attitude creeps up on us slowly until it steals our desire to do great things. But there are other ways that giving up on getting the best out of life can affect us.
Timeless Tricks to Help You Build Lasting Friendships
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept” ~ Samuel Butler, Novelist
How many people do you have in your life right now who you’d class as a close friend? I don’t mean acquaintances or online contacts you might have but real-life, long-time friends.
Most of us can count our current friends on the fingers of one or two hands, but we’ve likely had many more over the course of our lifetime. Throughout our lives, friends come and go. Many of those friendships we thought of as precious at one time are now just distant memories of good times spent together.
Some bonds with people last for years, through many ups and downs, while others disappear. But what causes a good friendship to end and how can you stop it from happening?
Are You Ready to Take a Risk?
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Do you enjoy the thrill of taking risks? Or, are you more likely to avoid them whenever you can get away with it?
Think of those successful people you admire. When we read the stories of their achievements, it’s easy to be jealous of how lucky they’ve been. But, when you look at the qualities they’ve shown on the way to the top, you find that what sets them apart isn’t good fortune – it’s their willingness to take risks.
For you and me as well, living our lives to the full means taking some risks to get what we want.
This can be scary because taking any risk involves introducing a degree of change into our lives… and that’s tough, especially when we feel safe with the way things are now. So, how do we make ourselves more ready to take risks and reap the rewards?
Muhammad Ali’s Knockout Guide to Being the Greatest
Muhammad Ali: "The Greatest"
I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.” ~ Muhammad Ali
From the moment a 12 year old kid called Cassius Clay, Jr. first laced up a pair of boxing gloves, he no doubt knew that he was destined for greatness in both the sport and in life. Always supremely confident in his own abilities, Muhammad Ali – as he later became better known – deservedly earned himself the nickname ‘The Greatest’.
Whether you’re a fan of boxing or not, Ali’s legendary fighting spirit and positive attitude are an inspiration for anyone wanting to achieve great things.
So, what can we learn about greatness in life from the words of wisdom of the ‘fighting philosopher’?
