Take Your Passion and Make it Happen

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January 28, 2009 by Amanda | Comments (1)

Follow your heart. Do your passion. How many times have you heard this? It seems like it took me 20 years to figure out I could actually do this.

I thought I had to wear all the hats in my past businesses. Manage people, create the vision, pay the bills, figure out how to pay the bills, manage more people, organize what we were doing each year, negotiate leases, work with the banker, take the garbage out, come up with new ideas, ship products out, hire and fire, and on and on.

I never stopped to ask myself, “What am I doing? Do I like what I am doing?” There was no time to think this way; there was always the next crisis. Then I found myself one day without girlfriends and hanging out with like-minded women. I finally slowed down long enough to realize that was insane.

So I started over and re-invented myself and tried to do the opposite of everything I had been doing for the last 20 years. What did I love? What did I light up about?

Shopping. Spa-ing. Girlfriends. Community building. Hanging with like-minded people.

Hence CRAVEparty was born and I have been on a very happy roll for the last seven years.

What is your passion and how do you figure that out?

One Response to “Take Your Passion and Make it Happen”

• heather Says:
  January 28th, 2009 at 11:54 am

  I, too, have worked many jobs that at the time I thought were inspiring because the paychecks were great and I could buy things and travel. But I was always the one who asked questions, who wanted to re-invent processes, who questioned everything – and it drove my corporate management nuts! They tolerated it because I produced, but I don’t think either of us were really happy with the arrangement. Then I was laid off and I entered into the best time of my life. I found out that I am really most passionate when things are tough, when I need to use my creativity to survive, to be in an environment where I CAN question everything and try and re-invent processes. This all comes with owning your own business and being successful in the environment of challenge. This is my passion, it always has been, I was just never able to express it until I held my breath and jumped and started living with the freedom to make my own mistakes and take credit for my own successes.

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