What do you live for?

What is your passion?

What is the special gift you have – we all have one – that makes the world a better place?

It’s easy to live someone else’s life but to live the life you deserve, it takes recognizing what may be obvious to others but not to ourselves.

1. What is the gift you have been given in life?  Your voice?  Your heart?  Your compassion?  Your ability to organize?  To lead?  To help others?  To teach?  This is worth thinking about for more than a few minutes because once you can identify your gift, you can get on with giving it to others and receiving the benefit yourself.

2. Stuck in a rut?  This is what I do.  Put aside what you are doing with your life now and ask, “What one thing would I like to do forgetting whether I have the schooling or skills to do it”.   For me, my entire life has been consumed with television, radio and communications.  Putting that aside, long deliberations have shown me that I like to build things.  (Confession:  I once contemplated leaving broadcasting to join the company that built the new city of Columbia, MD).

3. People who recover from health scares are often hyper-focused on finding the life they deserve.  They see it as a second chance to do the things that really matter.

What is your gift and how can it lead you to the life that only you deserve?

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