Week 36: Why Wanting Is the Way to Truly Living [Loveable 037]

“You have things you’ve always wanted to do with your life. Ways you’ve wanted to spend your days. Passions you’ve wanted to practice. Hobbies you’ve wanted to make a habit of. Love you’ve wanted to spread in the form of a vocation. Care you’ve wanted to give in the form of a calling. The things we want most are not, ultimately, material things, but purposeful things—patterns of living that feel meaningful. They are the deepest wishes of your truest self.”

In Episode 37 of The Loveable Podcast, we focus on a question that can begin to clarify for you what your passion is and in what direction your purpose may lie. That question is, “What do you want to do?” We are going to let that question lead us in the direction we are here to go…

Here are just a few of the takeaways from this week’s episode:

• When our people interrupt what we are doing, they aren’t interfering with our passions; they are protecting us from unbridled ambition.
• You’ll have plenty of time to save the world when your kids are grown and gone, and if you don’t, you probably have bigger problems than saving the world.
• Our people clarify, converse about, and encourage the practicing of our passions.
• The good news is this good: the things we are here to do are also the things we are wired to enjoy.
• When we worry almost exclusively what we should do, or are supposed to do, shame is probably directing our lives.
• A parent’s main task is to raise independent adults, so when a kid’s passion seems difficult to monetize, parents will intentionally and/or unintentionally discourage it.
• Our passions cannot be discovered in a week; it takes a lifetime.
• Sometimes, passion is not an activity but a way of engaging in all activities.
• An impulse practiced repeatedly becomes a habit at best and an addiction at worst; a passion practiced repeatedly becomes a sense of purpose.

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