Do what you love, they say. Follow your heart, others say. So people pursue their dreams of becoming musicians and professional athletes, believing that it will somehow work out, because it did for others. Others may have a passion for helping others in need and strive to do so without economics in their favor. This passion is noble, but it is hardly sustainable.

Here is the thing most people will not admit about passion. It certainly drives action. It causes someone to start a business, to train for tryouts and to show up at the casting call. But passion can also get in the way of Purpose. Passion, what you love and yearn for, and Purpose, what you are called to do, can be two different things or very closely tied. But when passion fuels your decisions and not Purpose, you can be growing farther from your calling. 

I have always had a passion for cars and would like to race them someday. But at 35, it is unlikely I will join an F1 team in this lifetime. I could spend the majority of my free time outside of work racing on my simulator or writing my book. One is passion, one is purpose. 

A healthy life puts both passion and purpose in its rightful place:

1. You live for your Purpose
2. Passion fuels you: directly and indirectly
   • Directly: If you can find those parts of your purpose that speak to your passion, wonderful
   • Indirectly: doing your passionate activities fills you up to serve your purpose

🧠 Place Purpose before Passion

Many, would-be greats have given up success or lost it altogether because passion and Purpose were in the wrong place.

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