“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.” –John Ruskin

Well, it is now officially snowing in Vermont. I believe the first day we got a foot of snow, which, in Georgia would’ve qualified as enough to shut down the entire State. The second day we got a bunch more and, after that, I stopped keeping track.

There is a LOT of snow, and the snowflakes are so huge that they don’t all fall DOWN. Some of them just float around, defying gravity, prolonging their joyful dance until they are so exhausted, they flop down on top of the others to help erase all the little differences on the surface of the world.

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“If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you, and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you.”

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I’d like to take a moment to thank everyone who contributed to the Passion Paradox conversation this past week. I received so many comments, emails, tweets, and response posts about it, that I suppose I’ll write a follow-up post, at some point, with all the lessons I learned from this experience.

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There is a current trend in society (at least in the States) that I find misleading and dangerous. You have probably seen more than a few people preaching The “Freedom” Gospel, encouraging others to leave their “boring” jobs with the assurance that financial success is a natural result of following your passion.

[Warning: This is a LONG post. You may want to print it, or bookmark it, so you can read it when you have more time. Or, you may want to skip it altogether. It's more of a rant, really.]

I wrote an article a while back called, Why “Follow Your Passion” is Not For Everyone, in which I discussed the fact that many people don’t have a single, identifiable passion to build their whole lives around. But today I want to talk about those who DO have a passion… something they love SO much they would do it for free.

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