One of my favourite things to read in the HBR is the column “The Best Advice I ever Got.” This month particularly resonated with me as it ties in with Marc Jacobs musings that I briefly mentioned a few days ago. This month featured Linda Mason, Chariman and Founder of Bright Horizons Family Solutions. The idea is to put your passions first and make them central to your life. Mason recalls a conversation with her mentor, James Rose, who said to her,

“Linda, your passions don’t have to be extracurricular. They can be central to your life. Unleash them, and you’ll help other people unleash theirs.”

This to me is another way of stressing the importance of being relentlessly authentic, of putting what you care about first and making it a central theme in your life and not an after work/weekend thing. When what gives you a sense of purpose is aligned with what your life mainly consists of, its limitless where you can go.