Passion is like Bacon: It makes everything better

Humans love passion. In fact, I’d boldly say that we prefer it to logic. It’s why we eat chocolate when we know broccoli is better for us.  We could choose a nice, safe basketball player who has amazing stats but who gets the coverage instead? Marshall Henderson.  Love him or hate him, he has passion. And you have an opinion about him.

Blake Shelton: Passion.

Steve Jobs: Passion

Johnny “Football” Manziel: Passion

My cousin Dave Ramsey: Passion.

Passion leads to excellence. It’s the umph that gets past mediocrity.

I think we have a passion problem. I know I do. I can look back at all my failures and at their root was, you guessed it — a lack of passion. We just don’t have enough of it in the right areas. We can watch Fox News or MNBC and get riled over something that has absolutely nothing to do with our lives and yet walk past a starving child. Or worse, we don’t care at all about anything.

It can happen for many reasons. We’re tired. We’re scared. We are unhappy. We’re depressed. We’ve allowed someone else who lacks passion into our heads.  All are passion-suckers.

If you want to make life better, commit yourself to the pursuit of passion. I’m going to. Passion is like Bacon: It makes everything better.