{"id":1719,"date":"2012-10-18T12:00:43","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T18:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/?p=1719"},"modified":"2012-02-07T11:58:22","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T17:58:22","slug":"following-your-passion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/following-your-passion\/","title":{"rendered":"Following Your Passion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is an excerpt of David\u2019s interview in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.topcoachingtechniques.com\/\">Top Coaching Techniques<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ingrid: So on that David, is it an important thing to follow your passion?<\/p>\n<p>David: Ingrid, what a silly question! Are you really going to ask me that question, seriously? Look, there was a time when we were very focused on survival, and some people still are, but more and more people are realizing that they can feed themselves, have a roof over their head, and they don\u2019t have to just survive anymore. 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