Follow your passion? Follow your strength?

I’ve read countless books and articles that exude the phrase, “Follow Your Passion.” In my case my passion is golf and a few years ago tennis. But realistically I will never make a living doing either. Therefore I had to give plenty of thought as to what my strengths were. And the trick is to realize my strengths, but I also had to make sure that my strengths were in harmony with my passions. Then I can marry my greatest strengths with realistic passions and turn it into a career. So over my careers I had to ask myself a few good questions.

What were the biggest accomplishments in my life?

What skills of mine allowed me to make those accomplishments happen?

I was strong in Inventory Control but that was certainly not a passion. But eventually I started using computers and that was another passion and certainly more interesting. Than I became an avid reader of self – improvement, physiology, business and sociology literature and that was definitely a strength for me, which I gladly combined with computers and hence this site was born.

I still play golf and tennis and dream about being a pro, but realistically I admire the pros on television.

Finding and realizing our strengths is a life long endeavour. And it could be anything from child rearing to skydiving.

So the key is to make sure you are in a career that you enjoy and makes use of your best skills. And if those best abilities are linked to a passion, you have it made. It is a life long discovery sometimes, and we may even switch careers a few times.

So think about what your passions are. Are they attainable? And think about what your true skills are? Now merge these together, and life has definitely becomes that more gratifying.