I was triggered: It was good!

I was sitting in a meeting with my teammates on a new project. Someone expressed the view that if all that we accomplished was for our target audience to "tweak" an aspect of what they were doing, that would be progress.

My heart started to race. Something was welling up from inside of me. "Tweak? We are going to be satisfied with "tweaking"? We are going to invest all this money and brainpower and be satisfied with "tweaking?" My outburst completed, I took a deep breath and sat back. 

I love this team I am on and as we continued to talk, no, none of us will be satisfied with tweaking. 

But here is the important bit: I tapped into my own passion. I was reminded of how much I care about making a difference. I reconnected to my guidepost that my work be meaningful. How I spend my time matters. That energy carried me through the rest of the day. 

This is what I love about being in relationship with others. It opens me up. It connects me to what is real. What is here. What is possible. 

 

Embracing Passion

I have always been a little skeptical about the word: PASSION. I always hear it as if it is written in capital letters. Can it be trusted? Do we find our passion? Discover it? Tap into it?  And what is it anyway? 

I just started a class with Lucid Living on this very topic. 

 

Here is some of what I am chewing on...

We talked about 4 components of passion. I will share two of them:

1. Boundless Love.

It is the stuff about which you say, "OMG I LOVE this!!!!!" 

2. Unbridled Enthusiasm

 Those moments when you are moved to let out a yelp and push past any fears of embarrassment. 

 

Think about the things you do that take you to this place. I think for me the list might include laughing with my closest friends and family, deep human connection when the veil drops and we surprise even ourselves. Singing or listening to my family singing. These moments, these activities, are not passion. 

These are the portals into passion. As we grow and evolve the doorways change. 

 

How often do I let these portals transport me to my passion? 

How consciously do I take myself to the door and turn the knob? 

 

You're holding back aren't you?

The other day my husband and I took a walk and he asked me about how things were going in my coaching business. And we had a really good and interesting discussion. He asked good questions and offered some good ideas. And then, in some weird tangential moment I heard myself saying, "You know the thing I have been really passionate about lately is....." and suddenly the emotional field shifted. My heart started beating faster and I realized I had been thinking about this in my head and hadn't really talked about it out loud. And a path opened in front of me that I know is calling me. 

 

How many of you are engaged day to day in ....

good stuff,

things you think are important,

things where you feel you have something to offer,

things where you feel you have a responsibility? 

 

And...

they are not really the things that fire your passion?

they are not really the things that you care so deeply about you can be moved to argue with people you love when the don’t get it?

they are the things about which you say, Oh I can't do that. There are so many people more qualified than I am. The ship has left the harbor. It's too late to get involved.

they are the things that make you think--this is the stuff of legacy. 

this touches a deep, real part of me 

So....

What if we are all waiting for you to have the courage to start talking about this?

What if we are all waiting for you to start doing something about this?

 

You know what...

I think we are.