{"id":8932,"date":"2018-02-23T03:32:45","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T09:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=8932"},"modified":"2018-02-23T20:23:27","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T02:23:27","slug":"youll-know-it-when-you-find-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/youll-know-it-when-you-find-it\/","title":{"rendered":"You\u2019ll Know It When You Find It"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u201cSometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don\u2019t lose faith. I\u2019m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You\u2019ve got to find what you love\u2026Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven\u2019t found it yet, keep looking. Don\u2019t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you\u2019ll know it when you find it.\u201d\u00a0<\/span> – Steve Jobs<\/p>\n

As I\u2019m giving lectures at different Universities and sharing with students how I\u2019d started a healthcare technology company at a young age, students often comment on how lucky I am to have found success in a field I was passionate about, healthcare.\u00a0 I tell them that it wasn\u2019t actually that I was passionate about healthcare starting out, it was just that I happened to have gotten jobs working in healthcare during high school and college and it just so happened that I learned I had a talent for designing software so I put the two things together and started a healthcare technology company. Because you see, that was my real passion \u2013 being able to take care of my family. \u00a0So I was taking what I knew (healthcare) and what I had a talent for (designing software) and using them as a means to support my family \u2013 and that was my great work.<\/p>\n

I grew to love healthcare and technology because that\u2019s what I was putting my heart into \u2013 and when we put our heart into something we gain a passion for it. So to all the young people who are struggling to identify their passion \u2013 know this \u2013 the passion doesn\u2019t have to be specific to one field or another going into it \u2013 your passion should be to make a good living so you can provide for yourself and your family, in which case you can really choose any career that will allow you to do so. And the best way to ensure success in any field is to choose a focus that allows you to utilize your natural abilities and God-given talents. Then get busy and go to work. Put your heart into everything you do on the job, giving 100% even to the smallest tasks. Do that and you will find that the more you put your heart into your work the more your passion for what you are doing will grow.<\/p>\n

And never forget that the greatest work you will ever do is in taking care of your family.<\/p>\n

~Amy Rees Anderson<\/p>\n

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