{"id":2216,"date":"2015-01-14T13:07:30","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T06:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keblog.demoapp.xyz\/?p=2216"},"modified":"2024-05-06T15:52:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T08:52:37","slug":"reasons-everyone-should-have-a-passion-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/reasons-everyone-should-have-a-passion-project","title":{"rendered":"8 Reasons Everyone Should Have A Passion Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some meme on Pinterest once said, \u201cIf you want to know where your heart is, look to where your mind goes when it wanders.\u201d My mind as a copywriter a few years back found itself wandering up to the rooftop \u2013 far away from unfeeling clients, helicopter account executives and the glaring absence of brilliant thoughts. I was convinced that one day they would find me up there in the fetal position, babbling and rocking to and fro while covered in bird poo. Under less crazed moments, I recalled my friend Thor warning me about getting too wrapped up in my\u00a0day job as a writer<\/a><\/strong>. \u201cHave something else apart from the writing,\u201d he said. \u201cBecause if you hang everything you have on it, you\u2019ll start to hate it.\u201d He was right, too.\u00a0I was beginni<\/strong>ng to loathe the very thing I loved<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0as I would my own child. Some days it felt like outright thought prostitution. So how did my other fellow inmates do it? Observations showed that all the best creatives, and all the hardest working people I knew, didn\u2019t\u00a0just<\/em> have their day jobs and families or significant others. They cultivated passion projects, or pursued interests to a higher degree. My boss\/art director painted, huge vivid canvases far and safe from client critique. Our managing director was the first to start selling eco bags in the Philippines, which still exists as a livelihood project today. One creative director would show me these awesome skull rings he was working on with a friend. In between brainstorming sessions, my art director J would leaf through Martha Stewart magazines and show me the kinds of pastries she wanted to make someday. Their eyes lit up as they talked about these; like prisoners talking about the first thing they\u2019d eat once they got out of jail. They would come to the office all fired up from having worked their brains out somewhere else; and while some might interpret that as additional stress, they seemed ready to tackle their workaday worlds head-on. They weren\u2019t moaning about how they didn\u2019t have enough time to do these things, like I was. They just made the time.\u00a0\u00a0It can be tough choosing one and figuring out how to go about it, but passion projects can actually save your day job from feeling like a trap. There are numerous reasons passion projects can benefit you (and your day job), to wit:<\/p>\n

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