Comments on: Key ingredient for success – passion http://www.cecsearch.com/WordPress/2007/03/20/key-ingredient-for-success-passion/ The (almost) daily trials and tribulations of being an executive restaurant recruiter.... running a restaurant executive search firm.... and how to survive. Sun, 30 Aug 2009 19:44:55 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 By: Chief Executive Restaurant Recruiter http://www.cecsearch.com/WordPress/2007/03/20/key-ingredient-for-success-passion/comment-page-1/#comment-3357 Chief Executive Restaurant Recruiter Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:34:50 +0000 http://www.cecsearch.com/WordPress/2007/03/20/key-ingredient-for-success-passion/#comment-3357 Hey Tim, thanks for the comment. You are lucky to have found what you love to do. I'm lucky that I have found several things that I love to do. Stay tuned! Hey Tim, thanks for the comment. You are lucky to have found what you love to do.

I’m lucky that I have found several things that I love to do.

Stay tuned!

]]> By: Timothy Totten http://www.cecsearch.com/WordPress/2007/03/20/key-ingredient-for-success-passion/comment-page-1/#comment-3355 Timothy Totten Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:52:16 +0000 http://www.cecsearch.com/WordPress/2007/03/20/key-ingredient-for-success-passion/#comment-3355 It's fascinating how a passion for your work makes time move faster, impossible tasks seem at least plausible and un-helpful people fade from view. I was just pondering this yesterday, as I sat stitching together a teddy bear out of a 60-year old wedding dress and a fur stole (I also make Treasured Memory Bears out of precious clothing). One hour of handwork turned into three, and soon I was knee-deep in satin and fur scraps; I loved every minute of it. Of course, I'm still working toward the day that I can hire more staff (especially someone to do all the annoying paperwork) but while I toil away I remember that I could be sitting in an office staring out the window, with nothing but thoughts of 5 o'clock in my head. Not a way to live. I'm glad I found my true calling. It’s fascinating how a passion for your work makes time move faster, impossible tasks seem at least plausible and un-helpful people fade from view.
I was just pondering this yesterday, as I sat stitching together a teddy bear out of a 60-year old wedding dress and a fur stole (I also make Treasured Memory Bears out of precious clothing). One hour of handwork turned into three, and soon I was knee-deep in satin and fur scraps; I loved every minute of it.
Of course, I’m still working toward the day that I can hire more staff (especially someone to do all the annoying paperwork) but while I toil away I remember that I could be sitting in an office staring out the window, with nothing but thoughts of 5 o’clock in my head.
Not a way to live. I’m glad I found my true calling.

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