“There is no passion to be found playing small, in settling for a life that’s less than the one you’re capable of living,” Nelson Mandela.  In order to get the most out of our gifts we need to commit.  I spoke with a friend of mine about the distraction of every day life and how we don’t get anywhere if we aren’t 100% committed to it.  We end up doing things half-assed and barely moving the needle on anything.  We are allowed to be multi-passionate and it can be difficult to prioritize things we love—especially if we get joy out of multiple things.  But the truth is we will never be completely successful if we don’t commit and seen things through all the way.  Passion drives us and it can be difficult to cut certain passions out of the equation, but it all comes together as it is meant to and when it is meant to.  Some things come back around for us when we least expect them and we are able to connect multiple ideas in a way that makes perfect sense.

So don’t hold back.  All that does is prevent us from living to our fullest capacity.  When we let emotion dictate what happens next, we create false ideas of who we should be as well as false expectations.  When we feel something, feel it entirely, I’m not saying to cut emotion off.  But when we feel it entirely we are likely at the end of the energy that makes us feel that way and it’s time to move on to something else.  We aren’t consumed by something when we let it run its course.  When we are unfulfilled, or perhaps more accurately unresolved, we look for ways to fill that missing piece.  So don’t participate as a spectator on some things and then go in a bit more on other things and the be upset when things don’t pan out how we thought they would.  We can’t find who we really are if we don’t really try to embrace what it is.  Passion doesn’t come from small thoughts or ideas, it comes from diving in  and living to the fullest. 

Don’t live a life that’s less than what we are capable of is the last part of this.  The heart, body, and soul know when we are meant for more.  It tells us in so many ways and we need to understand that if we feel that way that we need to do more.  Our passion is meant to guide us and it is meant to ignite the world so we can guide others who in turn find their light and start guiding others.  We are meant to be catalysts for great things and we can’t do that if we aren’t fully invested in our lives.  I’ve talked about dipping our toes in before and that we can’t learn to swim if we only ever get our feet wet.  Some experiences need to fully envelop us so we understand it.  Allow the experience to show us what to do.  When we find our passion, we know what to do next.  We find the driver, the course, the thing we can build ideas from.  Nothing happens if nothing happens so allow the world to open up so we can create.  Don’t play small for the sake of other people.  They may say we aren’t enough because we are only one candle and they think we need to be the entire cake but the truth is this: one candle can’t light up an entire room, but one candle can light every other candle in that room.  Don’t underestimate our talents and gifts because we are one person.  Instead, fully embrace who we are and find the passion that drives us and it won’t matter what others say.  Create and live with passion.  That is the purpose of life.