What Are You Passionate About?

 

Today was my last day working at the real estate office.  Real Estate is an industry I've been working in for several years now - first as a Licensed Realtor, then as an Executive Assistant for a local lender, then as the Administrative Assistant for a title and escrow company, and finally back to the real estate office as an Executive Assistant /Transaction Coordinator for a real estate team.  It's what I've been good at - assisting others in this industry doing the marketing, organizing events, coordinating transactions from a-z  (scheduling inspections, ordering reports, working with plumbers, roofers, inspectors, county offices, clients, etc),  assisting in the preparation of legally binding contracts and much more.  The thing is, this was NOT my PASSION.  I never woke up excited to get to the office.  I couldn't find joy in doing this each day and I grew stronger in my belief with each passing day just knowing I would have to change this quickly or be miserable.  Well I don't know about anybody else, but if I am to be authentic and real - I have to choose to live my life doing what I have passion for!

I have always known that I was meant to accomplish something meaningful.  What I had been doing in the various places of employment never felt "meaningful" in a way that made me feel really great or inspired me.  Yet that IS who I am... a woman who finds great passion in helping others on a far deeper level - in a way that FEELS meaningful.  My jobs actually prevented me from doing what I am passionate about - and that is helping empower people by lifting their spirits and showing them how to love themselves and their lives!  I am a natural emotion-based life coach, not a secretary!  To sit in a small office and stare at a screen with little to no opportunity to be with people in person and on a personal level was really beginning to dull my senses and frustration was eating me from the inside out.

I voiced my concerns to my sweetheart and to my family, friends and fellow life coaches multiple times.  Each tried to encourage me in one way or another and I was being stubborn!  I wasn't even sure EXACTLY why, though I had strong inklings about my reasons.  I began to ask myself some really important questions around this and slept on it and stewed about it and prayed about it... the big questions being:
1.  Are you going to be happy doing what you're doing forever?  
2.  Are you going to love your work where you're at?  
3.  Are your bosses going to allow you to make your own schedule and work with the people you want to and be paid to do what you love? 
and MOST importantly:
4.  Are you being completely authentic with yourself and others if you don't choose to do what you know is the right choice for you???

Ummm  NO, I clearly had to admit to myself!!!   And after all of that internal banter, I finally decided to allow myself to state simply "I'm going to do what I am PASSIONATE about!"  I laid it out there to everyone my intention to let go of my fears and do my life-coaching full time.   I know this is the best way to honor who I am and to honor my higher power - to be completely authentic.  I cannot allow what anybody else thinks define who I am.  I cannot allow fear of the unknown to prevent me from striving towards that which I am passionate about any more.  I know that this is where my true success in life is going to come from.  No more denying it.

So BRING IT UNIVERSE!  I am ready to live my life passionately and will be successful because of it - this I know.  Sure does feel great! 

  

Tell me... What are you passionate about?