Today's "rant" - Jobs

How many of you read the title and asked if I was writing about the jobs we do every day or if this was another ode to Steve Jobs? Well, the answer is both.

I join the throngs of people worldwide mourning the loss of Steve Jobs. I won’t expound on the legacy he leaves behind. Many others have far more eloquently done that than I can. But I’m not sure his legacy or his death at such a young age is what truly saddened us as we feel his loss.

Back on October 3, 2011 I posted a blog "Friday=Monday" where I challenged us to find our passion and be driven by that passion. TV Stations have played Steve Jobs’ commencement address over and over again telling those Stanford graduates to do just that and certainly he did. And look at the results. His living his passion fearlessly made a difference in how we live our lives and communicate with each other. And don’t forget Pixar!

I wonder if his death was our internal wakeup call and our sadness isn’t completely about the world’s loss of Steve Jobs but our current inability or courage to see or live our own passion. He never settled for mediocrity or anything other than the best for that matter. How about us? Can we say the same?

It’s not too late. If you were able (and you are) to live your passion what would you do? And what is stopping you?