The Flip Side Of Living Your Purpose

Are you passionate about what you’re doing earning an income? Does your job get you out of bed in the morning? Or is it “just a job”? If they stopped paying you, would you still be doing the kind of work you are doing right now?

Being fulfilled and living according to a “purpose” have grown over the last decades. There’s also an increase in unhappiness, depression and other mental health issues.

Living your purpose (or your passion) can get ugly at times. What if following the dream turns out to become a nightmare? You start full of excitement, energy, inspiration, and some money in the bank to get going. But what do you do if you run out of any (or even worse, all) of those ingredients?

For years I’ve been overthinking my passion. It was in front of me the whole time: travel. Everything I do today is surrounding that central theme in my life. That means not talking about it, but actually doing it. Talk is cheap (and so are flashy social media posts). Your purpose is your purpose, nobody…