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Passion
by H. Boehnke-Sharp
1.
A powerful emotion, such as love, joy, hatred, or anger.
2.
a.
Ardent love.
b.
Strong sexual desire; lust.
c.
The object of such love or desire.
3.
a.
Boundless enthusiasm: His skills
as a player don't quite match
his passion for the game.
b.
The object of such enthusiasm: Soccer
is her passion.
Passion is a fickle thing! Often
associated with love and sex, “life’s passion” takes a background role.
What is your passion? The thing that makes you complete, that gives you a sense
of fulfillment and accomplishment?
Being passionate about something
can make you come across as strong and focused, or insane! Passion can make you
loose all sense of manners and conformity. You see your goal, your dream at
arm’s reach, and are going to do whatever it takes to get there, damn what
others think.
I have spent countless hours,
days, and years of my life doing “what I should be doing”. I held several
jobs, and made good money, but I was never really happy. I was good at what I
did, and just stayed there because it was what I “should” be doing. When my
daughter was born, a new flame flared inside of me, and a passion was born. My
daughter.
When she was two, I stopped
working. Remember, she was my new passion, and I was going to do what it took to
stay home with her. I started a direct sales home business, and built it into a
stable income earner while fulfilling my need to be with my daughter. You would
think I was happy, and I was for a couple of years.
Again, Passion is a fickle
thing, and it flips on you. One day, while planting my tomato plants, I knew my
Passion for my business had died. At the same moment that I realized this, I
made the immediate decision to quit. After almost a year of contemplating this
decision in the past, it only took me a second to know I was on my way out. As I
stepped out of my garden, it was as if someone had lifted a huge weight off my
shoulders.
When I announced my decision to
my team, family, and friends, they were shocked and curious. What now? I wanted
to direct all my energy to place I had a Passion for, the Goddess in the Groove.
This is where my head and heart are, this is where I express myself and state my
opinions, (whether you agree to them or not, you are reading them!), this is
where I reach other women and secure new bonds and long lasting friendships.
This is where I laugh and cry...... Not
that they weren’t stamping me off as crazy already (“But you don’t make
any money on the Goddess in the Groove!”), their jaw really dropped when I
announced that I was going to create and sell my own T-shirts. My pessimist’s
first question was: “Why would anyone buy your shirts?” My answer:
“Because there are not a lot of cool shirts out there for WOMEN, especially
not mother/daughter shirts (see my first passion!), and NONE of them say Goddess
in the Groove. That is walking around with a statement on your breast!”
One month after planting my
tomatoes, I am sitting here typing this. Today I was out with one of my Goddess
in the Groove T-shirts on, and a women came up to me and said: “Are you
Heike?” “Yes” “ I recognized the Goddess in the Groove on your shirt. I
wanted to tell you that I really enjoy your web site, especially the article
about.....”. I wanted to jump in her arms and hug her! We had quite a long
conversation, and the whole time all I could think of was “BRANDING!! She
recognized my web site!!” I felt like a proud momma. I always knew I started
this site for a reason, and now the puzzle is falling together.
When you are at the point in
your life when only your Passion will make you happy and complete, you have to
be able to let go. Let go of security, let go of self doubt, let go of
conformity, let go of negative baggage, let go of anything and everything that
is hanging at your shirt tails telling you “NO! Don’t do it!” What? You
don’t know what your Passion is?? Then it is not your time, it will come to
you when you are ready. You know you found your passion, but are still not
sure?? Ask a friend, or ask a psychic! I read an article today in the newspaper
that more and more women are turning to psychics to help them make decisions.
Many of these decisions were really already made; they just needed some back up.
How do you know your psychic is for real? You will never know, and you already
know what you want to hear, eh? I asked a dear cyber friend to read the tarot
for me. She knows who she is, and she gave me the confidence I needed to forge
on, even though my tomato plants have meanwhile died!
Be
blessed, live free, love life.
Heike
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