You can measure your life in many ways.
How much you money you made.
What your legacy might be.
How many friends you made.
But what about how much fun you had? How much you did things that made you feel alive rather than simply existing.
What about the things that scared you to death, but you did them anyway?
As you get older, you get out the red pen and start to cross out the things that just don't cut it.
What if you only tried to focus on the things that excite you or even scare you a bit?
Things don't get easier when you're older, you just get a little better at hiding how confused you are.
What if you re-embraced the chaos in your work and life again?
Because if you do only things that make you feel alive, you'll put more into them.
The chances are, that means you'll do more things you're genuinely proud of.
Which may well mean you get noticed more in work.
In life you'll meet more people who love what you love.
In work you'll be sought after for more of the things that mean more than a salary, which probably will get you paid more anyway.
In life, you'll be the same person, but you'll have the thrill of moving forward and feeling less numb in a jaded world.
In work, because it feels less like work and more like being genuinely alive, you'll always find ways to do it better.
Enthusiasm and passion show in your work, and your life, when you show up with enthusiasm and passion first.
And I don't care how shy or anxious you say you might be, take it from a shy person, enthusiasm is infectious and breeds confidence.
We remember how we feel about people things much longer than anything practical about them.
So you should want people to feel something about you and what you do.
Which means doing what makes you feel something in the first place.
In other words, don't be lukewarm.
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