I turned on Super Soul Sunday yesterday and listened as Wes Moore talked.
He was talking about the difference between your job and your work. He said, “your work is where your passion overlaps with what the world needs most”.
It really struck me and it took me down several different tangents.
I wondered if passion is a feeling that people don’t recognize.
I wondered if people confuse passion with a dopamine hit or an addiction.
I also wondered if people think that finding their passion means finding something outside of themselves.
Then I wondered what the world needs most.
At the end of the day I decided that if you recognize “passion” for what it truly is, which is the things that light you up, and you use that to make the world a better place – then by Wes Moore’s definition you have found your work.
And your work then would be to bring as much of you to the world.
Just for today, think about how you can bring more of yourself to do your work in the world.
What can you do to make the world a better place? Because that’s what the world needs isn’t it? It just needs to be better and better and better.
Because the better it gets, the better it gets.