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She loves event planning and she would come home from a full day of work and begin to work on the events she was planning, until the wee hours of the morning. And then wake up and go to work after a few hours of sleep. And she loved it. Event planning began to fill her thoughts. She doesn’t get paid for setting up on events right now, but to her it’s all good, because it’s not about the money. You see we have been trained to evaluate things based on monetary gain. So if my passion doesn’t yield any monetary return, then I shouldn’t waste time. But we adopt this mentality because we don’t understand what passion does to us. We place our passion in the same box as we place a profession or occupation, but it’s not. People who are passionate are intrinsically motivated. There’s a quote that says “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life”.
I’m going to write another post about pursuing your passion on the side, because I believe there is a huge misconception that ‘pursuing your passion’ means no money, no stable job, not realistic etc. And this is so far from the truth. Albert Einstein had an occupation as a Patent Office Clerk, but his passion was physics which he pursued on the side. Did you know that he wrote four theories of what is believed to be some of his most important work in his “spare time’” Your day should not be governed by your profession, or work. Just because the work day is done, doesn’t mean your day is over. You still have 16 hours left in the day, what else are you doing with it? Einstein put it towards physics and look at what was birthed from it. Thank you Einstein.
