Only The Curious Have Something to Find

[cs_section parallax=”false” separator_top_type=”none” separator_top_height=”50px” separator_top_angle_point=”50″ separator_bottom_type=”none” separator_bottom_height=”50px” separator_bottom_angle_point=”50″ style=”margin: 0px;padding: 0px;”][cs_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/2″ style=”padding: 0px;”][cs_text]A few years ago the band Nickel Creek put out a song titled This Side. It’s a great song with a great video. One line in the song is “Only the curious have something to find.” Ever since  the first time I heard the song that line has been stuck in my head. The more I think on it and observe life the truer I find that line – it really is only the curious who truly find things.[/cs_text][/cs_column][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/2″ style=”padding: 0px;”][x_video_embed no_container=”false” type=”16:9″][/x_video_embed][/cs_column][/cs_row][cs_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″ style=”padding: 0px;”][cs_text]When I look at my own life I can see that truth glaring in my face. I can see those times when I was active, purposefully doing, actively looking for things to do. I can also see those times when I was less active, neglecting the desires and passions I have, and in those times I rarely found things.

One large example is Get to It!. I came up with the idea to help people find and pursue their passions. To help do that I want to provide some tools – blogs from my own daily struggles and successes in being motivated, blogs from others about their passions and why they pursue them, and to provide a database of Knoxville area clubs and organizations that facilitate those personal passions. All worthy enough goals but all requiring the same thing, motivation to do them.

This is where curiosity comes in to play. I have found that curiosity and motivation work together quite nicely. When one is curious about doing something one has more motivation to actually do it. The same holds true when there is little or no curiosity there is little to no motivation. Get to It! started because I was curious if I could start a company helping people find and pursue their passions. That curiosity helped my motivation in getting through all the legal hoops government has when running a business. That curiosity helped motivate me when designing the website, deciding what blogs to write, researching and compiling that database. I was curious and that curiosity helped me find some great insight into business and also into what Knoxville has to offer.

Yet, somehow, somewhere my curiosity waned and so did my motivation. For a while I stopped posting blogs, I stopped my research, I stopped trying new things, finding and pursuing my own passions. I was no longer curious and thus was no longer finding things. I do not like that, at all. I want to be curious again. I am curious if I can be curious again, and I am starting to be curious about where that curiosity will take me. And with that curiosity is coming motivation – a motivation to focus on Get to It! more fervently, to live life for my passions, to pursue new and great things. I want to live, dang it!

When we get out there and attempt things are we curious about them? Or are we not curious about anything and thus not motivated to do much? Curiosity and motivation go hand-in-hand. If you find your motivation is lacking try gaining a sense of wonder and curiosity, and then just maybe you will find the motivation to experience something wonderful. Remember, only the curious have something to find.

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