Week 45: Why the Most Mundane Life Is Sometimes the Most Passionate Life [Loveable 046]

“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.” –Gustave Flaubert

In Episode 46 of The Loveable Podcast, we are focused on taking the space in your life created by last week’s exercise and doing something a little counterintuitive with it—we are going to build some monotony into it. In other words, we are going to focus on building structure around the practicing of your passions. By the end of this episode, you are going to be more motivated to make a habit of doing the things you love.

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

• When we quit an activity to free ourselves up to pursue our passions, we are not quitting that activity for a day, nor are we necessarily quitting it forever; we are quitting it for now, for this season in our life.
• Adventure is made possible by that which is routine.
• We don’t practice our passion after we overcome all of our fears; we value it enough to practice it in spite of not overcoming all of our fears.
• The practicing of our passion is built on a foundation of rituals, routines, and rigor that seems very ordinary and unexciting.
• You can avoid creative blocks by building creative habits.
• In a busy life, little happens unless it is on the family calendar; put your passion on the family calendar.
• Make particular time slots in your week sacred, by giving them to your passion.
• Calendars are like budgets for your time. Where are you spending your valuable time?
• Practicing your passion always leads to feelings of vulnerability and thus always requires courage; tune in next week for that discussion!

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