Live with Passion and Integrity

when its your last day so live each day to its fullest. Trust me on this.

Going skydiving again….

I’m excited….The weather better hold up.

you have to know who you are to truly live with passion and integrity. In addition to that you have to feel good about yourself, inside and out. Feel good about what you do. Feel alive.

My whole life has always been about living and enjoying my life. Now I can not even get out of bed and enjoy the day, before I got up and sang….

I wonder when my heart will heal and I can see the beauty in things again, smell the roses, look at the sunset, smell the smell of salt water…all those things that I love and enjoy that I stopped doing…

I would just like a desire to do them again….

I believe that living with Passion and Integrity involves having faith that your life journey is meaningful and that you have a purpose. My intuition tells me that my passion is contagious and that it ignites those around me to prosper. Living by loving, I am the example.

The passion is there now at work. Because I am part of a team that has a difficult task to accomplish, and the task has made me determined to see this through. This is good.

Integrity. Well, that’s developing as I mentioned in my other post. I think this whole task has caused me to focus on me – who I am, what I value, what is important to me – instead of just going through the motions to accomplish a task. It’s a good feeling but it also causes a lot of stress and self reflection.

It’s going to be a long, challenging summer. I am actually looking forward to the person I become at the end of this.

We are working together on this task, and his middle name must be integrity. It’s been a long time since I met anyone who has so much integrity. Just being around him you start to reevaluate what you say and what you think. It’s pretty powerful to observe. I am impressed.

So do I act with as much integrity as I should? No. I learned that pretty quickly when he forwarded an email I sent him to someone else. I realized that I would write things in emails that I wouldn’t necessarily say to someone. Lesson number one learned. If you are willing to write it, you’d better be willing to say it.

There are more things I am learning and some parts are going to be painful, but I will be a better person after this is over.

Keeping your word? Or is it only saying things that are important to you? Or truthful? i need to think about this as perhaps integrity is more than I thought it was.

The soul is dyed the color of it’s thoughts. Think only of those things that can bear the full light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become…
~unknown

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
~Honore De Balzac

Let us endeavor to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
~ Mark Twain

I have a lot of passion. A lot of feeling.
My challenge these days is to focus, think wisely, choose a direction. At times it all seems so appealing…
Yes… I could be a teacher. Or an artist. Or something else.
... what would REALLY be the biggest dream fish I could pull out of my ocean of imagination and boldly take the steps to make it come true???
and how would that occupation, endeavor be meaningful beyond my own personal interest or bank account…