ITL247: If You've Lost the Passion for What You Do, Keep This in Mind…

In the Loop with Andy Andrews

Matt Lempert

Business

4.9 • 614 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2016

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode, I answer a listener question on reigniting your passion when obligation gets in the way.

We've all been in a situation where we were doing something we thought we were passionate about, but the results are not what we think they ought to be.

When I feel like I'm doing something out of obligation, I first ask myself, "Who am I obligated to?"
If the passion is not there enough to carry the activity in and of itself, I think of the people relying on me for something and remind myself of their value.
Are they valuable to our country? Their families?
Would I be willing to honor my family, or God, by helping someone else I don't even know?
Because I'm not doing it for them specifically. I'm doing it because I've been given the ability to do it.

To not use your gift in ways that can help other people is dishonoring.

I can talk to myself and give myself a great opportunity to look beyond myself, the income, and even the people I'm trying to help.
It's important to realize you're working for something bigger and longer-term.

Tune in to hear the bottom-line answer for hanging in there when the passion seems to be gone.

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0:00.0	You're listening to In The Loop, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective
0:06.5	with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews. Now here's your host, David Loy.
0:13.0	Hi, and welcome to In The Loop with Andy Andrews. I'm your host, David Loy. Andy, thanks for joining us again this week.
0:18.8	Honored to be here. I am very excited.
0:21.3	Excellent. And who's our sponsor this week?
0:26.3	Well, you're just assuming we have a sponsor?
0:28.4	I am. Well, you've made me accustomed to it. And not just me, all of our listeners are excited to hear it too.
0:34.4	Well, we do. We do have a sponsor. And our sponsor is Rocker Man of Texas.
0:40.1	They have a sponsor to show before.
0:42.5	And I've got their furniture.
0:45.6	I'm just telling you, I've got their furniture.
0:47.9	Because I saw this.
0:50.8	If you go to rocker man of Texas.com and look at this furniture, it's unbelievable.
1:00.7	We're looking for something.
1:02.3	You know, we live in a very windy area.
1:05.2	And with the wind coming off the Gulf of Mexico.
1:17.0	And so it's not only windy, but it's an area that the weather really kind of, it destroys stuff outside.
1:19.0	It destroys furniture.
1:20.9	And so, you know, golly, through the years, we've had to buy, you know, outdoor stuff like every two or three years.
1:29.5	And we'd stain it and it still wouldn't hold up and it'd get wobbly and fall apart.
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1:37.1	And I've looked, I've looked at stuff saying, oh, now that is real heavy.
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