Jodi Hadsell - Come Alive: Find Your Passion, Change Your Life, Change the World

FIND YOUR PASSION,
CHANGE YOUR LIFE,
CHANGE THE WORLD!

JODI HADSELL

NEW YORK

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Come Alive

Find Your Passion, Change Your Life, Change the World

2020 Jodi Hadsell

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For Chris, who always told me that my health would not improve unless I was living a life of passion.

The two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why.

Anonymous

A re you tired of living the dreams that someone else had for you? Are you tired of taking care of others before yourself? Are you sick of putting yourself and your desires on the back burner? Are you stuck in a career or job you hate? Do you feel undervalued, empty? Are you tired of being afraid, of hiding out and not knowing why you cant just seem to figure things out? Are you wanting this to not be your life anymore? Do you feel like it may be too late to change paths, find your true passion and start living it? Time is definitely up on this!

How do you respond when people ask you, Whats your true passion? Are you like a deer in the headlights? Do you shrink because you dont really know the answer, and youre ashamed that you dont know? Do you sort of know but you have no idea what to do with it? Maybe you know for sure what it is, but you are stuck in a well-paid yet soul-crushing corporate job and youre too afraid to quit and go for what you want. Do any of those describe you? Because they all described me, at different stages of my own journey.

If any of those describe you, you are not alone. Most people do not know what their passion is, or they are not living it. I know because I ask just about everyone I meet that question! When you look at strangers walking down the street, you can usually tell if they know what their passion is. Those who know their passion and are actually living it walk taller, have a spring in their step, look you in the eyes, smile at you, and laugh, a lot. You can just tell they have a fire burning inside of themthat they are fully alive.

Do you know how many people in the corporate world hate their jobs? Do you know how much money that costs our country or the world? When people are working in jobs that provide no passion and no purpose, it costs their companies hundreds of billions of dollars lost due to unproductivity, illness, lack of quality and customer service and therefore lost customers, and a myriad of other things. Do you know what it costs individuals like you? It cost your health (it certainly did me), your relationships, your future income, your peace of mind. That is a high price to pay.

What if I told you that it was possible to find your true passion and to live the life you came to live? Would you believe me? Well its true. And I am living proof. And what if I told you that once you are living a life of passion, your whole life changes? Your health improves, you lose weight (if you need to), your relationships improve, people are dying to be around you and to work with you. Your whole outlook on life changes. Just like that.

I know what you are thinking now:

• But what if it doesnt work for me?
• But what if I am the one person it doesnt work on?
• But what if I am too scared to face my challenges?
• But what if it is too hard?
• But what if I cant finish?

Guess what? Everyone has those fears. Remember the first time you jumped off the diving board or went swimming? Werent you afraid? But you did it anyway. And you are still here.

Finding your true passion is an archaeological process. You have to do some digging! And digging is scary. But just imagine the buried treasure that you are going to find. Just imagine. Im so excited for you to be at the beginning of this amazing journey you are about to embark on!

We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Joseph Campbell

F or most of my life, I have been afraid of my true passion. My parents never knew or cared about my interests or desires. My dad was a raging and controlling narcissist and my mother tried to live her life through me. My brother was abusive; my sister was a jealous bully. Being my authentic, true, and individual self was not allowed. Expressing my true passion meant being abused. Every time I tried to shine, I suffered. A lot.

Fast-forward to college, where I changed my major four times before deciding on journalism. I was smart and really good at many things but picking something specific that I really wanted to pursue was really hard for me.

After graduating, I got a corporate high-tech job in learning and development, but after a few years, I was bored to death. I had been promoted to the point where there was nowhere else to go (except my bosss job, and that was never going to happen). It was the mid-90s and the internet was happeningI decided I wanted to work for the coolest Web design company in San Francisco, Vivid Studios. I still did not know what my passion was, but I knew I needed to move. That was when I realized what a powerful manifester I was. I decided on the one company and the one person I wanted to work for. It was an impossible thing that my mind knew I would never get. Everyone wanted to work for Vivid at that time. So I meditated on that job (that within a year, I would be living in San Francisco, working at Vivid Studios, and working with Nathan Shedroff, founder and creative director of Vivid and boy wonder of the internet). A few months after that, I went on a trip to San Francisco with a friend of mine, and she asked me why I hadnt moved there yet, as the city suited me perfectly. At the time, my dear aunt was really sick. I could never leave while she was sick, and I didnt have enough money in savings. She asked, What would it take for you to move here? I said, My aunt would have to not be sick anymore, and I would need another $10,000 in savings. The next week, my aunt died and left me $10,000. That really freaked me out. Shortly after that, I attended a conference in San Francisco. I had forgotten to bring my glasses, so I had to sit in the front row. And lo and behold, I was sitting right in front of Nathan Shedroff, of Vivid Studios! We ended up physically running into each other on the break and started talking. We set up an interview, but I didnt get the job. The job I interviewed for was not the right fit. But I ended up moving to San Francisco anyway (with no job). After about a month or so, Nathan called again and asked if I would come back and interview to be the director of the Experience Group. And that is the job I got.