I was going through my ‘blogworthy’ file for ideas and came across a clipping from the Times–an article in the PREOCCUPATIONS column by Pam Slim, a successful business coach and author of Escape from Cubicle Nation. It’s entitled Is This the Time To Follow Your Bliss? and is as relevant today as it was when I clipped it in April of 2009.
If you have to live with uncertainty,
you may as well pursue what you care about deeply.
That was the highlighted quote in the piece, and the one I believe is perfectly timely in 2013.
Which is why I’m focusing on doing what you love on my next community call on March 1. When I started An Egg by Jane in 1980, doing what you love (and having the money follow) had not yet become the title of a bestselling book. I just knew that I would make a business out of my passion for my art form. My keynote address became: If I Can Make a Business Out of This, You Can Make a Business Out of Anything, which I still firmly believe.
I’ve never claimed that you’ll make a multi-million dollar business out of doing what you love, but quoting one of the people profiled in Slim’s article, I do believe you’ll be able to state: “My energy is high, I wake up with joy, and I feel alive.”
Do you?
Hell, yeah! Love Pamela Slim, but truly love you, Jane, and the hope and support you bring to people like me, a solopreheur doing what I love – coaching women to find the life partner of their dreams. xoxo
@Sandy
Love you too! Thank you for this.