Lead a vivid life that does good
Today a heap of people gather to do good for those who are poor and less fortunate and in need of help.
Older people, children, students and families all giving their time for free for their community.
What started as an idea by a few uni students texting each other, ends up with hundreds of people of all ages making a real big difference.
That's proof if you ever needed that the best way to make an idea happen, is to just start doing something.
Freedom is never free.
Freedom comes at a cost. Many many people have died that we might have the freedoms we enjoy.
And one man died that we might have the freedom we where created for.
Easter and Anzac together. A reminder how blessed we are to be free.
I've chatted with Balloonists a few times. As we talk, it becomes evident how much they love Balloons. How passionate they are about them. How they long to be 'up up and away in my beautiful balloon'. Personally I've found ballooning to beautifully boring (its too slow), but I love to hear their conversation. When we talk about ballooning they are altogether different people.
I love to ask people what they are passionate about? It opens the hearts of people. It enables me to listen. To connect.
I love getting past the what our jobs are, or what we are studying, as if that defines us.
I love to hear the words "I'm passionate about…" … ballooning … music … animals … horses (hard to believe I know) … travel … different cultures … food … makeup … children … God … family … motorsport …
I love the conversation.
Its engaging.
Next time you meet someone, maybe even someone you have known for a long time, why not ask 'what are you passionate about?'
Then sit back. Listen. Engage.
And then, when you least expect it, you may find you meet an entirely different person.
For some unknown reason I am both cursed and blessed with a natural ability to do accounting. So much so, that some people consider it a strength.
I am blessed because when you run a business it is good to have a firm grasp on the numbers.
Yet I am cursed because I actually really hate doing accounting. Nothing sucks the passion from my veins as quickly as doing accounts.
So is accounting a strength? Just because you are good at something, does that make it something you should do?
No
I believe strengths, real strengths are the things that you are really good at, and really passionate about.
According to Strengths Finder 2.0 my strengths are Strategic, Ideation, Futuristic, Competition and Self Assurance. And I am actually quite good at these things, just like accounting.
When I am doing them I feel like I have hit my sweat spot. I am passionate about whatever I am applying towards. I am energised.
Your strengths are things you are passionate about and really good at.
Go find them this week.
Work on them.
Nurture them.
It will energise you.
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