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What are you passionate about?
I’m sitting in Montauk watching the surfers and I cannot take my eyes off them.
The grace. The balance. The complete and total commitment to the wave beneath them. There is something so beautiful about watching someone do the thing they love — the thing that lights them up from the inside out. The thing they can’t wait to get back to.
And it made me ask — what is that for us?
Passion is that feeling of oh my gosh I cannot wait. Not the obligated yes. Not the thing we do because we should. The thing that pulls us. The thing that makes time disappear. The thing we’d do even if nobody was watching and nobody was paying and nobody was applauding.
What is that for you?
I want you to really sit with that question. Not rush past it. Not dismiss it with I don’t really have one of those — because I don’t believe that for a second. Passion lives in all of us. Sometimes it gets buried under years of responsibility and practicality and the accumulated weight of putting everyone else first. But it doesn’t disappear. It waits.
For me it’s this — talking to you. Encouraging and inspiring and hoping that something I say sparks something in you that makes you move differently. Makes you see yourself differently.
Because I was stuck for a long time. I thought it was me. I thought I wasn’t good enough.
And I want everyone to know — we are. All of us. Every single one of us.
We have an innate ability to do and be anything and everything we want. That’s not a motivational poster. That’s the truth. The surfers in Montauk didn’t start out graceful and balanced and fearless. They started out falling off the board. Over and over and over. And they kept going because the passion was bigger than the falling.
So find your passion. Pursue it. Live it.
It’s not too late. It was never too late.
We’ve got this. 💛
If you’ve been wondering what your next chapter looks like, read You Think You Missed It? You Haven’t — because passion doesn’t have an expiration date.
And if fear is the thing standing between you and the thing you love, On the Other Side of Fear will remind you what’s waiting when you move through it.