Tag: Passion

Believing in something as if your life depended on it is the most powerful position

Scene from God's not Dead
It will always be easier (initially) to back down – this decision could haunt us for a lifetime.

 

Dear Son, believing in something as if your life depended on it is the most powerful position from which to do your art.

The insidious danger is our motive isn’t pure.

But if it is, nothing can stop you.

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We’ve already decided that the sure thing is where we’ll bet our time and money

Rion Paige is one of two acts I predict will be in the X-Factor final
Rion Paige is one of two acts I predict will be in the X-Factor final

 

We’ve already decided that the sure thing is where we’ll bet our time and money.

Every meeting is about avoiding coming anywhere near the sentence, “this might not work,” and instead giving ammunition to the groupthink belief that this must work. – Godin

If we are lucky enough to have worked insanely hard enough, we eventually become blessed with revelations and insights that those who never leave shore will never, ever understand.

And we must learn (and we do) to be okay with this.

But there’s one more thing, a benefit that feeds upon itself. It stiffens an already courageous, audacious spine.

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The cost of doing nothing is exponentially greater than doing this

Three pelicans flying through the sky
Vultures? No, pelicans. Was afraid to use this pic because it’s out of focus. But it is in real time.

 

The cost of doing nothing is exponentially greater than doing this:

The cost of failing.

Getting used to trying things, even at the risk of failing, is the fastest (and only) way to following your passion.

Fear of failing is a deadly toxin to passion.

We know this.

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