How are you today?

“How are you today?”

Connor Teske: This is the first day I can make it to frolf club, so good!

Alex Dockter: I’m doing alright besides the fact that it’s Monday.

Alli Ward:,Callie Roth, Laurent Moug, Nick samuelson, Elliot Koch: I’m doing great thanks for asking. How are you doing?

Austin Swecker: I’m sore! I can’t really serve at all.

Erica Volk: I am wonderful how are you?

Steve Anderson: I am doing well! Yourself?

Haley Koehn: Not Good! I feel like crap, I am sick 

Kelsey Gilbraith: Ok I guess, you?

When someone comes up and asks you how you are doing, is your regular answer usually, "good," "fine," or "it’s another long Monday?" Most of you usually just give the answer that they are always expecting... but what if we answered a different way! What if you all the sudden answered, "I am Amazing..." or "Passionate..." or "I am excellent..." or "Truly blessed....and how are you?"
Most people might just smile, let your answers sink in, or even give you a wide-eyed look of panic! But most of all they are going to wonder why you are the way you are! They are going to see an energy that they are not used to, something we call Passion.
Last week at Real Life we talked about passion, and the idea that passion is contagious. It has its own energy -- an energy that's observable and transferable. Best of all, you can't fake it. Almost anyone, with only a bit of intuitiveness, can sense a lack of sincerity, authenticity and depth. It is that one thing that separates the things that are said, then the things that are being done! It makes us who we are.
You see, if I am passionate about something it will infect (yes like a disease) the others around. If I am passionate about a certain band, my friends might go home and take a listen on youtube. Passion will help people start to question certain things… you see, If I am passionate about something in the wrong way or a bad topic, I will still infect the people around me, but probably negatively. However, if it is a positive passion, for a good reason, you are going to impact others! Can you imagine if the people around you were passionate about the same things! And then it would continue to affect the others around you… (kinda like one of those volks wagon commercials!)
Most people are afraid to be passionate, because they are scared of being judged, scared because they lack the zest and the confidence to express our own values and beliefs! And those that have never tasted passion will only ride along the passion of others!
Passion doesn’t guarantee success, but I promise you, it is something for you to experience and worth taking a chance for. And remember, next time someone asks you how you are, maybe you should really tell them!

Adamantium