Follow the Bouncing Ball
I’ve read the next book from the speakers that Mickie posted. Good news: it was the shortest book out there—took me maybe an hour to read. It’s called Rules of the Red Rubber Ball: Find and Sustain Your Life’s Work, by Kevin Carroll.
It’s an inspirational book about following your passion. We hear this message all the time, and people generally react to it with a nice warm, fuzzy, feeling, but how many of us really go there? When I read the book, I wasn’t really in the mood to be inspired, but it still managed to get me going a bit.
And although Kevin’s session (according to the title) is about play and bringing fun into your work and life, I particularly liked that in the book he acknowledges how much hard work it is to follow your passion:
Pursuing your life’s work requires work. The hard work, the lonely work, is not always enjoyable, but as long as you do it in the name of your red rubber ball [his symbol for your life’s work, or your passion], you will shine.