Today, I’ve been thinking a lot about the “passion bucket”.
The term comes from Rick Neuheisel, former football coach at my alma-mater UCLA. Back in 2008, he was on The Dan Patrick Show and said, “When you’re at UCLA, you have to have your passion bucket full when you play the Trojans.” Since then it has gone viral, big time:
Not only in sports, but as a band name, in urban dictionary, as a blog. Everyone is having a field day with it.
I think that’s because it presents such a clean metaphor, “you gotta fill up your passion bucket.” Those days when everything is flowing and you’re feeling good. Also, it leaves room for those days when the energy is gone and you found a way to get back to that high level.
The definition from Urban Dictionary:
- Describes the amount of energy or love one has for a certain object, event or theme.
- Term to describe the character or primary strength of something
- We were losing in the first half, but we played with a full passion bucket and ended up winning in the end.
That’s all, just wanted to share this term as I look around the interwebs for something to fill up my passion bucket.
