Life Check Yourself Episode 300 – With Marcy Morrison: Why You Should Follow Your Passion Even if it Scares the *$#^ Out of You
Do you wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat, because you dread the thought of going to work…
but you feel like you’re trapped?
Are you tired, drained, and unfulfilled at the end of the day because your job is sucking the life out of you?
Do you know you should be doing something else… but there are so many ways to go that you can’t decide which one is best for you?
Do you want to move up and make more or start your own business on your own terms, but you have no idea where to start?
Marni is joined in the Life Check Yourself studio by the author and founder of Careers with Wings, Marcy Morrison. Marcy supports hundreds of people to live the life they love and to create a career from their passion. Marcy shares her personal journey and steps for how we can form careers around what makes us happiest.
Key Takeaways from this Episode:
- How to make what is important to you first in life
- Creating more than two options for your career
- You don’t have to blow up your old life to create a new one
- Having a create short-term strategy
Save the World or Sell Your Soul? [2:22]
Many people get caught in the — I wish I would have — It’s too late for me now — I just have to suffer through five more years of this — syndrome. Marcy says if you don’t change your life no one else will do it for you. Start making a plan now.
How to Get Started Living Your Passions [8:26]
Give yourself permission to get your wings and gain your freedom. Marcy thinks many people think of career transitions backward. When you focus on what career you will have and think of your vision for happiness second, you get off on the wrong foot. That is where regrets come from.
When you know you want to spend more time with your children but your work schedule doesn’t allow it, you are not living your truth.
Reevaluating what makes you happy and what is important to you at each stage of your life is the number one thing you can do to begin following your passions.
Looking for happiness outside of yourself is a waste of time. You have to love yourself.
Some people believe they need to blow up everything in their lives and make drastic changes because they don’t know how to make incremental changes toward what they want. Marcy’s advice, give yourself a break and take time off to think about it.
Turn the old way outside down and fill your tank up first.
Put together the pieces of your passion puzzle.
Life is short. Give yourself the space to dream because the dream is where the magic is.
