On Friday I’m summing up what you learnt in the #weekdaykickoff this week.

Refresh yourself

It’s necessary that from time to time you take time for rejuvenation. It can be weekend trip, week retreat or simply a nap with a glass of fresh water. Keep yourself hydrated, and this also means to have fresh thoughts if the old ones do you a disservice.

Do what you’re vain about

What you’re vain about is something you care about. “You’re so vain. I bet you think this song is about” is what you heard when you listened to Carly Simon. It has negative connotation, but doesn’t have to be like that. A friend on Facebook, Sara from Spain, responded on the topic saying:

What an interesting thought! Usually vanity is seen as a negative concept, but I like this vision of yours of using it to discover what really drives your actions and thoughts. I’d say this happens to me when I sing or perform with my voice a text, radio scripts, etc 🙂 Yes, I am able to receive “negative feedback” (although usually I am my hardest critic) but, like you say, I engage in a pursuit of becoming exceptionally 😉

Your last words in the death bed

Do what brings you closer to your dream ultimately achieving and living the dream. Nothing is too ridiculous or too extreme as long as you don’t hurt anyway. I then got a little political ,)

Leave your passion as a hobby

When you can’t find the energy for your night passion because your day job is in the same field, it’s time to switch the job or your passion. Ideally, your day job should create excitement and suspension so when you get home you can’t wait to finally pursue your passion.

Here and there you hear to make a passion your main job and source of income. But it doesn’t have to be like that. When your day job is because it gives you a nice regularity, keep your passion as something where you can be the total irregular, the weirdo, the strange one.

And if you feel your strangeness needs more time to expressed with more output, you can overlap from your day job to your passion, making a living with your passion – if that’s the strongest urge you feel.

The take-away for the weekend: Drink, shake yourself, dance, make moves that look funny all for the purpose of refreshing or recalibrating yourself. Find your passion, the one you’re vain about and then pursue as a hobby, or, when it’s really strong, make it your full-time profession (step by step). Undertake all the ridiculous, scary, embarrassing and breath-taking things so you reach your dream, live your dream life to have the greatest story to tell – before and while your death bed is coming closer to you.

A little bonus

If you missed my sabbatical post on 10+1 steps to your dream life, I highly recommend this quick read.

This was episode 15 of the #weekdaykickoff. Every Monday-Friday morning. Colombian time. Until episode 5 I also audio-recorded on Anchor, you can find me there as “Alexander Kluge”.

In your day job you are an engineer, an analyst, juggling with a lot of numbers, data, information and complex stuff. When you come home, had dinner, a talk with your life partner or friends, you still have time for your night passion. Let’s say 2-3 hours because you don’t watch television (anymore).

Your passion is a right-brain’s activity like drawing, painting, singing, dancing, juggling balls. I’m assuming that your day job is a left-brain-heavy profession. It can easily be vice versa. Important is that both are complementary to each other.

If your passion is similarly focussed on the same brain half’s work or even in the same field as your day job, there’s a big chance you’ll exhaust yourself or leave no more energy for you night passion. So, it can be wise to choose another field of profession for your day job or admit that your hobby should change.

The take-away from today: Leave energy and lust for things you’re passionate about. Find other areas of interest if day and night job are too equal, or change the field of your day job so you can enjoy your passion without the pressure of making money, but with your own pressure of wanting to learn and become really good at it.

This was episode 14 of the #weekdaykickoff. Every Monday-Friday morning. Colombian time. Until episode 5 I also audio-recorded on Anchor, you can find me there as “Alexander Kluge”.

What will be your last words in the death bed? Sounds dramatic?! It’s your life full of dreams waiting to come true. So, nothing is too dramatic, too ridiculous, too embarrassing.

In fact, everything is alright.

As long as it’s aligned with the pursuit of your dreams — and you don’t harm people, animals, nature and the environment in general. Yes, it means that some people’s big companies don’t give a shit about not harming since they are so distant from real reality. Instead they enjoy themselves in their bubble reality.

Let the bubble blow.

The take-away from today: Don’t die, and if you do, take all the ignorant people with you. But don’t kill them. Get creative. It’s your turn now.

This was episode 13 of the #weekdaykickoff. Every Monday-Friday morning. Colombian time. Until episode 5 I also audio-recorded on Anchor, you can find me there as “Alexander Kluge”.