Passion Sustains Your Efforts
by Miki Saxon
It’s Sunday night and I’ve been staring at the screen trying to find something to write for you, but my mind is totally blank. This doesn’t happen very often, but when it does I tend to look back at years of posts for inspiration.
When I did that I came across something I wrote in 2006 when the same thing happened.
On low days (we all have them), as I sit here writing and sending these words into the ether, I wonder if the people who read my blog find it as useful as I mean it to be. I wonder how many people read MAPping Company Success, and, to be honest, I sometimes wonder if anybody would actually care if I stopped writing it.
Then, yesterday, I happened to read Brandstorming and was reminded that, when I get right down to it, I’m writing my own passion and, even without my clients’ comments, I know that it has value and works.
Now all I have to do on those odd blue days is remind myself that passion pays in many ways. (Hey! It rhymes—how ’bout that:)
What I wrote then is still true four years and more than a thousand posts later.
We all have days when we wonder why we do what we do; how we can keep going when we’re stale or find ourselves wondering if [whatever] really matters.
Now and then it’s good to take a step back and recognize that we’re going to have these days; that although our passion will sustain us in the long run it doesn’t always burn with uniform intensity. At times we may even feel like the flame has died, but if we keep going we’ll find it again and it will be stronger than ever.
In short, you need to trust your passion; if it’s real it will never desert you, but it might need a day off now and then.
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March 26th, 2010 at 1:49 pm
Miki – I read your posts in Feedbiz every time I get it and would miss you if you stopped. I find your insite helpful and your common sense refreshing.
Please don’t stop writing!
March 26th, 2010 at 2:50 pm
Thanks, Julie! I appreciate your taking the time to click over and what you said. I’ve also enjoyed our dialog over the years. It is readers like you who keep me writing.