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The Best Job You Can Find

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A re you lucky enough to work at a job that matches your passion? Raise your hand. Good. Go and walk the dog or make breakfast.

For the rest of us still floating around the galaxy, Seth Godin‘s words of advice are not out of this world. They’re worth exploring.

Turning your passion into your job is easier than finding a job that matches your passion. Seth…

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This life “assignment” as my uncle says, is brief. This we know. So why do we continue to spend hours and hours working at a job that feels alien?

COMING SOON! I’m tackling the subject of passion using real-world doable assignments to rediscover what you already love and enjoy, and finding a way to turn it into a job you’ll love until your next assignment. I’m calling this quest, “The Passion Explorer”. In a four-part series we’ll go through some questions and exercises to help you match your passion with a job, second career or side hustle.

Got questions? Write them in the comments below.

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Live Large On The Grand Stage

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There are no small parts just small actors…might be a fine approach should you wish to become an actor. But this is your life and there is ZERO reason to accept bit parts on the grand stage that is your one and only life.

You weren’t put on the planet to live a little bitty life.

Within your own four walls and around the people you know and love, you get the chance every day to take a starring role. To encourage others. To share. To influence. To teach. To inspire.

Play the part for all it’s worth. Come back with a fabulous encore. Then you get to take a well deserved bow.

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Follow Your Curiosity

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So what if you’re still a wanderer seeking that elusive feeling of enthusiasm or excitement for something or about doing something?

Eat, Pray, Love best-selling author Elizabeth Gilbert, suggests that instead of chasing your passion, try exploring it instead. Follow your curiosity. Do this without expectation that anything will come out of it other than joy. You never know, says Gilbert, “but if you let go of your passion and follow your curiosity, your curiosity just might lead you to your passion.”

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Should You Choose To Accept

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Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to express your passion, creativity, gifts and talents in any way that fulfills your life and makes the world a better place to live.

Unfortunately, sometimes the mission is challenged. Compromised by the likes of self-serving evil bad guys and cluttered with obstacles, detours and fast moving trains. Your need to express yourself is hopefully less dramatic and more “possible” than these (very strained and corny) movie analogies.

Your job (which the rest of us BEG you to accept) is to stop the bad guys, avoid or conquer things in your way and save your piece of the world. Do this well and you may find yourself offered another mission. Should you choose to accept, of course.

This message will self-destruct in 1,440 minutes, the amount of time in this day.

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Get Your Own F*g Pony

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“Mom, can we go to the zoo?” says the five-year-old.

“Tomorrow,” says the mother.

“Mom, can I have a pony?”

“Later.”

“Dad, when can we get a red sports car like Tommy’s dad?”

“Someday.”

Parents fall back on three textbook answers to nagging questions:

“Later,” “Tomorrow,” and “Someday”.

Why?

I Know Derek

Derek and his friend Jane.

SPOTLIGHT: As often as possible I want to shine a light on some person, place or organization who epitomizes the Be F.A.T. way of life. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Derek.

Of all the joints…

On a recent summer evening I met Derek, and his beautiful friend, Jane, at a Jimmy Buffett concert. For Parrotheads, (followers of Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band), making new friends is Cheeseburger in Paradise nirvana. We know every song by heart, dance with complete strangers and for the better part of the day, congregate in a tropical, if not quite, religious experience.

Turns out Derek, from Canada, is a traveling Parrothead. This concert was Derek’s ninety-seventh, he said, as in 9-7. I was impressed, and then quick to point out that if he’d put the money spent following J.B. and the band in the bank — tickets, travel, lodging, food — assuming a conservative compound interest rate, a sizeable nest-egg would finance his new sailboat. In cash.

Reinvent Yourself Again and Again

8.16.2016 At the moment of your greatest failure, you have the chance to reinvent

You’re going to try many things in this lifetime. Some will work out. Some won’t. I believe this is why Karaoke was invented — to appease all the wannabe rock stars and embarrass their children.

But the end of one thing is never THE end.

It’s the beginning of something else.

We’re not all destined to be rock stars. That’s a good thing. Because there would be no classical, jazz, heavy metal, country…disco…Well, in my opinion, we could have skipped the disco era and all of the 80s.

The point is: You get to fail. Over and over.

And whether you tweak and refine one idea or start another from scratch doesn’t matter. You get the opportunity to take another swing at something that just might be THE thing that brings you the most satisfaction.

You have the power to do that. You’ve always had the power to reinvent yourself. As many times as you want.

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When Will You Say “Yes”?

positive quote/befat.net/Stephanie-DelTorchio/8.11.2016 While you are wondering about your direction, the rest of us are patiently waiting for you to say “YES!”

Say YES to that inner voice. That gut feeling, the hunch, the spark.

Say YES to new adventures.

Say YES when you normally knee-jerk NO.

Say YES to sharing your talents, your gifts, your time, your money, your PIE! (I love pie)

Say YES to taking a chance on a new love or rekindling an old friendship.

Say YES and show us your inner beauty, however you manifest it outwardly.

Say YES to exploring new places.

Say YES to starting this day with wide-eyed wonder by embracing a new beginning.

Say YES, again and again and again, to the things that make you happy. (You know it’s your sweet spot – no harm hanging out there a while, my friend)

Say YES to everything that sparks the smallest bit of interest and curiosity in you today. Because you never know where it will lead, what doors it may open and whose heart you may touch.

Get on with it. We’re waiting for you to say YES!

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Don’t wish away another day

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Before you make a wish for something frivolous or outrageous think about the consequences of what you’re willing to give up or give away SHOULD your wish come true.

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Time for you to change?

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You might be surprised to learn that you have more aptitude and abilities than you know.

We hold on to this limiting belief that every body is better than us. They had it is easier growing up, an unfair advantage, therefore they got what we didn’t. Bull.

All we need is to shift our mindset and believe that if we take action things can and will change. Being lazy or feeling stuck or having fears are speed bumps and caution signs we create to keep us from having to change.

For the brave and curious change is exactly what we must do. To put yourself in a position to be the person or do the thing that makes you unique.

But I’m stuck HERE. Set in my ways. With my bumper stickers. Nope. Not buying it.

Everyone has it within them to change. Even you.

Lose the bad habits.

Bad attitudes.

Bad associations.

Doing so frees up the space to allow real growth and change to happen.

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