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Find Your Passion

I knew when I took the booking what I was signing up for.

Overnight driving after a gig. 2 hours’ sleep in a hotel room before having to get to a 6am flight out. Napping on the floor during a layover. Getting held up with bumper-to-bumper traffic on the drive from the airport to the next engagement. Being delayed in traffic long enough that the hour buffer I intended to spend getting presentable at the hotel gets eaten up, meaning I have to go straight to the venue feeling grungy.

I went a whole day without eating because I knew I needed those catnaps more than I needed food.

And I love it.

What in the world could possibly be more important than sleeping and eating?… Keep Reading

• Written by Jonathan Pritchard • Filed Under: Article • Tagged as: deprivation, deprived, excitement, exhausted, happy, love, passion, sleep, starving, tired, travel •

Enthusiasm is infectious.

The word “enthusiasm” is derived from the latin “enthūsiasmus” which means “possession by a god”. It is a divine energy that gives rise to action.
It is your enthusiasm that breathes life into a project. If you want someone else to be excited about something, you must first be excited yourself.

Without enthusiasm for your work, the quality of your results diminishes drastically. You’ve certainly completed a task you really didn’t want to do. It’s excruciating.… Keep Reading

• Written by Jonathan Pritchard • Filed Under: Article • Tagged as: enthusiasm, excitement, improvement, suffering •