We all have it. It’s in there- somewhere Our challenge is to journey inward to excavate it. Once we find it, we need to blow off the cobwebs and then proudly live it.  It’s important to find our voice and speak our truth about it.   

What is it? Why, it’s PASSION, of course. 

Webster defines passion as "intense, driving, or overmastering feeling or conviction."  We can have passion for ideas, practices, people, our higher power, making money, social injustices…. whatever stirs our soul. 

And that’s the key question- what is it that stirs your soul?  What gets your creative and "take action" juices flowing? What do you wake up thinking about at night?  What makes you jump out of bed in the morning? That is where you find your passion, and in the now famous words of Hillary Clinton‘s riveting victory speech in the New Hampshire primary, find your "voice". 

I don’t know about you but I have seen people who said they had passion but you sure couldn’t tell it by how they were acting. There was no spark in their eyes. Just a distant emptiness as they went through the motions. And I have seen people so passionate about they work they are doing, the group they are leading, or a belief they hold that if you stood too close you would get burned from their fervor. Now, that’s the kind of passion that I’m talking about!

As for me, I have a passion for helping people get their acts together in their work, their relationships, their business, with their money, their careers, and perhaps most importantly, with themselves.  I love seeing the twinkle jump into a person’s eye when the light bulb goes on and they have unearthed their true passion.  And I love helping them create strategies and action plans to ignite their passion in the world. 

Passion.  It can be quite contagious if we live it, find our voice and speak our truth about it.

"How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don’t have a voice to speak?" -Isabel Allende