Have you ever struggled with your passion? I’ve had a few emails from people who take the time to share their thoughts and say they feel inspired by what the WILDE team and their working partners are doing and that they want to follow their own passion, but don’t know where to start. They keep asking where I get my passion from and all I can say is I made passion a habit.
 
I remember a time after Candace Magazine, which I was editor of for five years finally closed its doors. I felt vacant. I was a failure. Fearful. There was no sign of my passion then. During that period I spent most of my mental and emotional energy trying to figure out what I would do next. In other words, I was thirty four years old with four children between the ages of twelve and six years and I started wondering what I would do with the rest of my life.
 
Those seemed like dark unsure days with hours of tears, self-torture, self-blame but finally, thank the Creator, self-realization. I realized that I didn’t like this feeling; it actually began to annoy me, and thankfully passion kicked in and took over. Gone was the accusing, angry voice that magnified my failure, and in its place was a voice of reason with such powerful persuasion that I was forced to pick up pen and paper and start scribbling. Those words turned out to be what my writing mentor, Jackee Holder termed, ‘Writing Manifesto’ only this was my life manifesto, ideas to take my life forward.
 
I became excited and started to take real notice of what was exciting me, what was my passion, and then I spent the next ten years researching it. I know without a shadow of a doubt that:

• You have to want it more than you fear it.

• You have to be willing to put in the long hours.

• You have to be willing to take on the criticism and turn them into your strengths.

• You have to be willing to motivate your team, or yourself, on those days when all you want to do is chillax!

No one has ever become a great success from dabbling in this and dabbling in that. You have to take the time to learn every single thing about every single part of your business, your passion. There is so much to learn and you will never know it all, but the more you do know the more you will see the benefits and the more the confidence will come.