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Have you recently gone through some dramatic and transformative changes in your life? Whether these changes are related to your job, relationships, or spirituality, the shift has taken some getting used to and you need something positive to focus on. You enjoy a lot of different pastimes, but you really want to devote yourself to something you simply love doing. How do you find your passion? Perhaps just as important, how do you turn that passion into something meaningful and substantial in your life?

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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. –Eleanor Roosevelt 

A passion in life isn’t something you’re born with. It’s cultivated by your interests, what stimulates you and what you are genuinely excited about. But what if you want to pursue many avenues and just don’t know which one you’d be the most successful at or want to invest the most time in? Or what if nothing particularly lights the proverbial fire under your bottom, but you have a lot of energy that you could devote to something? Or maybe you’re stuck in a job you despise, but don’t know what other route to take that would truly be fulfilling.

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I just read a review of a new book coming out, Hard Times & Nursery Rhymes by a working mother (a lawyer with a lawyer husband – power jobs for sure)

In the Post-Gazette interview, she found, as most mothers do, that the best time to get her own work done was after the children were in bed.

Early on in her role as a mom, she was run-down and convinced she must be sick. She went to the doctor, described her life, and his diagnosis was that she was tired.

The cure?

“Get used to it,” the doctor said, “because that’s what your life is going to be.”

And she has gotten used to it, through three children, diaper bags, school conferences and court dates.

Reading that made me think about my own work-life balance. I struggle a lot with this, as I’m sure any other working mom does. I have two jobs…and neither of those two can usually be “left at the office”. I carry my iPhone with me everywhere and answer emails from students, write blog posts for PittsburghMom and catch up on my own research.  The Internet is not a 9-5 job.  It never stops.

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