Lead with Your Heart

Passion and purpose are the driving forces for leading lives that we not only enjoy but find ourselves eager to continue. Without passion and purpose, we can lack meaning. We can lack a reason to push forward. From passion and purpose the other overpowering emotions of love, faith, commitment, and determination branch off to latch onto our souls. This web of emotion and feeling is an interconnected being that when lacking, is noticeably absent. With them we feel whole, we feel complete. Without, it is like we are moving through life in a haze, we have no direction and no inclination of what to do next. Passion and purpose relate equally with the idea that our heart knows best. Our heart knows what we want and what we should look to do. Find ways to follow our hearts, and we find ways to form the lives we wish to live.

Following our heart enables us to put our emotions first. We are reacting autonomously based on feel. We are not completely planning out every step of the journey. We know what we want and we know we must act. Following our heart gets us on the path, a path we must figure out what to do next. By following our heart we are letting passion and purpose show their hand. We are giving ourselves up to these emotions and seeing what establishment grows. We trust our emotions and what we believe we want. That trust is enough for us to continue the pursuit.

When we follow our heart there is a point where we can cross the line into being reckless. There are decisions deemed risky that should be weighed on what to do. By weighing the pros and cons of any of these decisions, we bring the power of our mind and rationalization into the arena with our heart and the feelings of passion and purpose. Our mind should be used as an asset to follow our heart. We ultimately should not be blind to any risks the pursuit of passion presents to us, but we should not shut down our heart because a risk is presented. When there are risks we must assess our faith, belief and determination and plot a path forward. Leading with our heart is not a guarantee, but when we bring our mind into the equation we are able to level set on what an outcome could be.

Lead with your heart and create a life of passion and purpose. Bring your mind into the equation when challenges are presented. Assess. Then move forward, lead with your heart and follow it.