Finding Your Passion (And Keeping It)

Diana Waldron
2 min readJun 26, 2024
Image by Gustavo Belemmi from Pixabay

Many people have found their passion in life.

And many people have not.

Those who haven’t often look to those who have and idolize or feel jealous.

Finding your passion does not have to be hard, and it doesn’t have to be so serious. If you don’t know what your passion is, then start experimenting and exploring. Try new things. Anything at all — cooking, knitting, singing, collage-making. You won’t know unless you try. Something you think you might never enjoy may turn into something you love doing. And vice versa.

But finding your passion doesn’t mean the end of boredom.

Finding your passion doesn’t mean the end of struggle or pain or “dry spells” or even work.

Finding your passion is workstaying committed to it is also work.

You have to be willing to say no to the things that distract and drain you. Only you can determine what those things (or people/places) are. What works for you in one season of your life might not work for you in another season of your life.

Where you focus your attention matters. Focus on your priorities. Make your passion your priority.

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Diana Waldron

Diana Waldron is a writer and a sitarist living in the Hudson Valley.