Trust the process

What is your passion?

When I ask that, I'm asking this;

What keeps you up at night?

What gives you the motivation to wake up in the morning?

What makes you feel like you are a part of something far bigger and greater than yourself?

What makes your heart break in places you've never felt before?

fucking chase that like your life depends on it--cause it does.

It's the difference between generativity and stagnation--- or fulfillment and regret.

If you can't think of something---you need to get out there and find it. You'll know when you do because it will rock your world and ignite you with passion. It'll make you cry with the weight of how immense the epiphany is.

Work towards the kind of occupation that inspires you to pour your soul into the profession.

Never give half your heart to it.

Life is so damn short.

Never spend your precious time doing something you don't believe in.

This shit takes time. It takes struggle. It takes years and tears and you have to face your fears. Stare them down and push through it with all that you have.

People will sleep on you while you hustle. Don't worry about it. Let them think you aren't progressing because their insignificant minds cannot grasp the brevity of what your end goal is.

Get down and dirty to learn your profession/passion/purpose from the inside out.

Let them look down on you as you slowly surpass all of their dramatically minute goals.

Contrast their ignorance with the humble confidence that only comes from abandoning the fear of "what people think".

Understand your weaknesses and hustle till they disappear. Once you conquer one, move on and conquer the next.

Don't put yourself in a box---take it as far as your passion goes. Stop when you don't feel your soul in your work. Go back to when you did.

I'm able to say this because for the past almost 5 years, I've hustled my ass off with little recognition. It's okay though because I don't fucking want the kudos from irrelevant people. My most treasured praise comes from those who I touch through my passion.

You don't have to understand it for it to ignite a fire in me that will burn until i die.

I have spent hours upon hours studying to be the best at my trade. I've spent vacations taking extra courses to be able to explain things on a cellular level if needed. I will recognize lethal changes that the average novice nurse won't.

Nothing on them but it truly my passion and I can't stand to be mediocre at it.

Hold yourself to the highest standards possible and don't put limits on what you can acheive. Put your head down and work. Don't wait for the applause because it doesn't mean anything. In fact, in some cases, people won't applaud you because your light and passion makes them feel like shit. They want what you have.