Career Inspiration: Reconnecting with Lost Passions

By Sab

Hi there,

This week during my research I kept coming across people who have recovered interests they thought were lost to history. It got me thinking about any I may have abandoned - and a big one was being involved in music. I used to be in choirs, played instruments since the age of 6, led rock bands, went to dance classes and went to a gig at least once a month. It was pretty much my life. Now I just listen to music when I go running. Eeek! What happened to my passion?! Am I living a less passionate life now because there’s less music in my life? Maybe…
How about you? Can you remember the feeling of being utterly absorbed with something that’s almost non-existent in your life now? Do you want to reconnect with that?


Inspirational links

I really like this. It seems rare to find stories about people going into pro sports after the age of 25
http://www.whatsnext.com/content/second-chance-become-pro-golfer

People share their radical career changes on Linked In!
http://www.linkedin.com/answers/career-education/job-search/CAR_JOB/659420-66455876

Fran Monks has created this beautiful site which has stories from successful career changers as well as inspirational people
http://howtomakeadifference.net/

This is amazing, and affirming for me! I’m such a ‘I wanna do that and that and that’ person and have had a feeling that I can’t do it all- that you have to pick one thing. Well clearly this woman refused to pick one thing and had a blast, proving it can be done
http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/Leave-The-Job-You-Love-And-Act-On-Your-Dreams/936967

Til next time,

Sab


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