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Discovering Your Passion pt1

The Basics

Discovering your passion in life is imperative if you really want to have a happy, fun and fulfilling life so don’t you think that it is worth the effort to discover what you are truly passionate about; how amazing would it feel if you could make that the focus of your job/career or business? Are you interested? Well let’s get started!

Look after yourself.

It’s pretty simple but when you start paying attention to your body, and its well-being, things will come to you. Just by getting up off the sofa and doing a bit of exercise every day, it may get your blood pumping and your brain working (and this doesn’t have to be strenuous, just try some light running or walking). Pay attention to your ideas as you “work out”, and a few invigorating things might just flow into your head.

Listen to your inner child.

Did you have a big dream or aspiration as a child or when you were growing up? What happened to it; did you try to reach it or did it just fizzle out? As youngsters, we have no obligations and the sky is the limit, and that leads us to daydream. The problems start as we grow older and “reality” kicks in and the we find that a few of these daydreams need to be put on the back burner for “grownup obligations.”

Become like a kid again; dream big with no limitations and just see how that makes you feel without the burden of obligation.”

Look for guidance.

However well you think you know yourself it is always a clever idea to get an outside perspective; your friends and family may be able to help you recognize what you are great at, and what a few of your hopes and aspirations are. And you may be surprised by what they associate with you, but don’t dismiss it out of hand. By connecting to these individuals, and asking for guidance, you may discover answers that can help you to discover your true purpose.

Write down ideas.

Whenever you think of an idea, write it down so you don’t forget. I get some of my best ideas when I am about to drift off to sleep so I keep a pen and notepad next to my bed so I can jot it down and look over it in the morning! By writing your ideas down, you may be able to identify any recurring themes. Delving into your subconscious to try to discover a secret wish or goal may be difficult, but if you really listen to what your subconscious is telling you, you may be able to discover a passion in life you never even realised you had!

Voluntary work.

By stepping outside of yourself, and helping other people, you may recover some of the joy that you seek. Helping the elderly may be a terrific way to hear about their life experiences and this may spark off an interest that you didn’t realise you had. It can be difficult to discover a passion in life, but you need to be persistent and never quit trying.”

So, what are you waiting for? Once you have a few thoughts that interest you, why not try to get moving in a new career or interest. By taking classes, internships or a new job, you may discover what you are really passionate about and this will make you feel so good if you can make this a big part of your life.

Using Your Surroundings

There are many factors which will determine whether you will be able to get in touch with your true inner passion, but don’t you think that it is worth the effort to do so?

However, working out how to dig out those long-entombed passions and interests can be an entirely different story. If you like to learn visually, one fantastic way to discover your passions is to produce a vision board. These are pretty powerful and you may discover yourself taking steps that will open up your mind and let you relax and allow your innermost desires to suddenly appear.

Meditation, music and pictures may inspire you once you start your vision board; however, a different thing that you might not have thought about is your surroundings. If your surroundings support creativity, they may inspire you to discover your passions. Different surroundings will work for different people and could be both indoors or outdoors; just go with what works for you. Whether you’re most pleased in a neutral room with passive colors and decor or choose brilliant, vibrant items surrounding you, you need to discover what type of surrounding works best for YOU by doing some experimenting. This is like trying out various kinds of music to determine which relaxes you most.”

And don’t be afraid to venture outdoors too! Take the time to sit in a couple of different spaces, surrounded by different items to discover out what gets your creative juices flowing. Relaxation is great, but the urge to accomplish something is even greater.

Whether your environment makes you want to sing or take a photo, draw or compose or just sit and dream; the idea is to discover the paragon place for you to connect with your inner self.

And remember that you are an individual; some people connect with themselves while they’re unwinding whereas other people need some kind of stimulant to stir their creative juices. There is no right or wrong here; regardless of what kind of surroundings work for you, the important idea here is to open your brain to all the possibilities and move into a place where you may see yourself working toward a goal of some kind.”

When you start to think about creative surroundings you might feel that in order to be creative you need to be surrounded by works of art etc. but in all honesty creative environments aren’t just about the decor, it’s more about how it makes you feel an inspire you.

So if your creative place is sitting under a tree in the woods listening to birdsong, or in a window seat with sunshine streaming in, that’s fantastic. It’s all about YOU and how your place makes YOU feel.

Even if you are not going to make a vision board, it’s crucial to spend some time in a creative place so that you may stay in touch with your inner passions and creative thinking. This encourages a more balanced mental attitude and less tension in your life.

Expand Your Mind

Have you ever wanted to have a carefree, passionate and fun-loving personality, however felt it just wasn’t you or how you were meant to be? This is garbage! There’s a way to have a creative, cheerful outlook with plenty of happiness and meaning in life and to also be a responsible individual.

Expand Your Brain

To begin with, you have to believe and be open to trying fresh things. Is it really that simple? Yes, but the problem is that it doesn’t happen overnight and in todays modern fast-paced society we want everything instantly. But isn’t it worth exercising a little patience for something that can enrich your life forever?

In order for your life to enlarge, your brain needs to expand. The brain need exercising, just like your muscles. The more you use it, the more it will grow to meet the deamands that you are placing upon it. When you are being creative and thinking or trying fresh things, your brain expands. And an extended brain is an enriched brain. And not only does your brain become enriched; you also become enriched, and so do all areas of your life.

It may lead to more passion in life, an extroverted personality or you are able to speak up and meet new, interesting individuals. You may be more experimental and try new fun things, and build self-assurance and self-regard, and all these “side-effects” will bring you more happiness and meaning in life.”

And doesn’t that sound like the kind of life that you really want to lead?

Now, there are a number of ways to expand your beliefs and actions in daily life. The biggest issue is that life gets in the way and occasionally we discover ourselves in a rut that we simply can’t seem to get out of.

And as human beings we are generally lazy and follow the path of least resistance and we have a disposition to put on our autopilot and just go through the, without consciously thinking about what’s going on around us.

Have you ever been rushing home from work or school, and once you got in, you snap out of it and couldn’t recall a thing about the journey home? Your automatic pilot kicked in and did the driving for you, and that’s pretty handy, isn’t it? Well, yes it is but it isn’t doing you any favours. The trouble is, your brain didn’t expand one little bit on that journey home. How about next time, you say to yourself “I’m going to try a fresh road home, simply for the fun of it.” What could occur?

First of all your automatic pilot is off, so you’re now having to pay attention and use your conscious brain driving home.
Who knows what you might find on that fresh route? A fresh eating place you haven’t tried? A re-modeled shop that might interest you? Another coffee shop than the one you constantly go to in the morning?

OK, I believe you get the picture. “Must I keep driving this new route?” you may ask. Of course you don’t, unless you actually prefer. The point is that you tried something different today. You changed your brain in a little way, and that makes it grow.

Another way of making the commute more enriching is to listen to inspirational and informative audio; this could be podcasts or cassette tapes/CD’s of your favourite speakers. All this is food for your brain!

The great this about all this is that once you decide to try fresh new things, who knows what lively fresh individuals and experiences you might meet along the way? And think about how these new experiences could impact on your life and push you forward in a new, exciting direction!

The example above speaks more about the mental attitude you picked out, rather than the modest decision to take a fresh road home. You see, once you begin making minor changes, it gets to become a habit, which leads to greater shifts.

Those greater shifts may lead to all sorts of fantastic things for you. You’ll see more serendipity, creative thinking and passion in your life; you’ll formulate a more outgoing personality and attempting fresh fun things may open the door to meet fresh lively individuals.

In time, this may all build self-assurance and self-regard, and bring much more happiness and significance into your life. You’ll be believing less “I can’t do that”, and more “Well, I can and will do that!”

Your mindset is a critical key to getting all you want out of life so nurture it and reap the rewards. Ignore this at your peril!

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Do What You Love And Love What You Do

Do you realise that when you get up in the morning you have a choice. So what choices am I on about; well, you can either look forward to the day ahead, or you can dread it, simple as that. And what do you think determines the choice you focus on? Well, that really depends on how much you like what you’re going to be doing for the next 16 hours before it’s time to hit the hay again.

Now, it’s pretty obvious that we’re not going to love everything we end up doing during the day (I don’t know many of us that look forward to cleaning the bathroom), but you should be able to find some things to look forward to. And if you can work more of those things you enjoy into your life, the more fulfilled and happier you’ll be.

Love What You Do For A Living

I have a serious question for you, and be honest here. Is your job something you look forward to, or something you dread? If you’re not having fun and really enjoying what you’re doing (and I don’t mean all of the time… we all have bad days), it may be time to give serious consideration to a career change. Believe me, NO amount of money is worth being miserable and it can be really difficult to enjoy life and love who you are when you hate much of what you’re doing on a daily basis; it is a recipe for unhappiness. Why not find something you can get behind and be passionate about instead? You’ll feel so much better! Make a living while making a difference and fulfilling your purpose in life.

Do What You Love Around The House

Our home will always be a special place in our heart. It’s a safe place, where we can raise our kids and rest our head at night. And you should enjoy spending time at home. It should be a property that you are proud to own and that you enjoy taking care of. What I’m trying to say is, our home should be our sanctuary, our safe haven, our happy place.

If you’re at home while reading this, take a look around you right now. What do you love about your home? What makes you proud of your home And conversely what don’t you particularly love and is there anything that you can do about that? Start small, but start to improve your surroundings. Moving into your dream house overlooking the ocean may not be an option right now, but you can paint your living room walls and hang up a pretty beach painting. Turn your home into a place you love.

Do What You Love – a.k.a. Hobbies

Now I realise that you may not presently be in a situation where you can do much about your job or your house, but there are other ways to incorporate what you love into your day. Find something you enjoy doing. It could be gardening, curling up with a good book, playing golf, photography, knitting… it doesn’t matter what it is as long as it is something you love and enjoy. In other words, find a hobby and make sure you make some time for it in your busy day and week.

If you’d like to discover your true purpose and lead a happy, fulfilling life, then take a look here and then, take action; your fulfilled future awaits!

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Are You Living A Purposeful Life?

Can you answer this simple question? Are you living a purpose driven life? Or perhaps you are like the majority of people, living day to day, just moving along wherever life chooses to take you and not in control of your own destiny? We live in a time and age where we are constantly bombarded with distractions from all angles. We are bombarded by media 24 hours a day! With all of this “stuff” going on, it’s no wonder that it’s easy to lose track of what’s important and what we should be doing.

One way that we subconsciously fool ourselves that we are coping with this information overload is by focusing on the “what” instead of the why. We focus on things like “What do we need to do today?”

Now perhaps you can understand why there is such a huge market for planners and organizers! There’s a reason why so many of us work with daily to-do lists. It’s a psychological crutch which helps us sort through the clutter and pick out a handful of (important!) things we need to get done today. In other words, these organizers and lists are a coping mechanism allowing us to deal with the overwhelm of too much information and too many things we could be doing. They help us to simplify a (too) complex life.

Now, I am not dismissing these tools outright as they definitely can be useful but they may also hold a hidden danger in that they make us focus too much on the “what” at the risk of losing track of the “why”. What do I actually mean by this? What I mean is that it’s hard to see the big picture and make sure you are following your purpose when you’re just staring at a to-do list.

But it’s not difficult to fix that while still being able to use all those tools to kick overwhelm to the curb. Here’s what you need to do. Set aside a little time each month, or even each week, to sit back, reflect and look at the big picture. If you need to, put it on your calendar to make sure it gets done. Don’t just ignore it as it is important.

Spend that time reflecting on what you’ve actually accomplished this past week and how it has helped you move forward in the right direction. Be objective and critical; What tasks helped you fulfill you purpose and what was just busy work? We all have things we do on a regular basis, just because that’s how we’ve always done it; in other words it’s habitual. Take a long hard look at those things and see if perhaps there’s a better way to be spending your time. Maybe there are other things you could try that may work better, be more efficient or they just align more with your big “why”.

Finally, the exciting bit; start planning your “what” for the coming week or month, but always keep your “why” in mind when planning this. Think about what you need to do to move forward. Always keep your purpose and your end goal in mind and you will get there much quicker.

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Do You Fear Success?

Did you realize that it is pretty common for people to be afraid of success? Now I know that may sound rather ridiculous, maybe even impossible; but the simple fact is that many of us will struggle to achieve the things we truly desire and this is all down to fears – specifically our subconscious fears. On a conscious level, you can plan, work and strive to succeed in the areas which are important to you but you seem to be getting nowhere fast and all your hard work and success appears to be thwarted.

So why does this happen? Well, in many cases, it is probably due to past experiences in your life which for some reason have subconsciously made you afraid of success and so you will subconsciously self-sabotage your results.

Maybe you kept hearing the phrase “people like you never get ahead” and that phrase is subconsciously buried deep in your mind. And even if you grew up in a loving, nurturing and positive environment, if your parents and/or your family struggled financially, your brain could’ve actually been programmed to believe that financial success will create a loveless and unhappy life for you. Hey, nobody said that your subconscious mind had to make sense!

It can be very difficult to overcome years of negative subconscious success beliefs, especially if you don’t actually realize they exist in the first place! But that is exactly what you need to do if you want to achieve any level of success in your life. The great news is that once you actually, totally believe you deserve success in any particular aspect of your life, your achievement of that success usually comes rather quickly and this reinforces self-belief.

Thomas Edison is one of the greatest (and most famous) inventors in history. He once said that, “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” And this is exactly why he succeeded! Consistently tell yourself that you really deserve success. And realize that you will experience failure. You will have speed bumps and problems which arise between you and whatever level of success you desire, and that’s ok. Just be ready for it, pick yourself up, brush yourself off, and start again.

If you don’t believe me just take a look and follow the lessons of other successful people and try to determine what many of them have in common; an indomitable will to succeed. A great way to start is to start practicing daily affirmations of success. Tell yourself you are worthy of success, and really feel this deep down. Tell yourself out loud that you are not afraid of failure, or the rewards that success brings. Indeed failure is a part of success.

Write these affirmations down on a small card and keep it with you always, perhaps in your wallet or purse where you can constantly review it throughout the day. It is possible to reprogram your brain with positive repetitious statements concerning your success beliefs, and daily affirmations help. Do this consistently for 30 straight days and you now have installed a positive habit.

It is very natural to fear the unknown. And in many cases, success is unknown to many of us. Just remember that with a relentless tenacity and a true self-belief that you deserve the successful achievement of your goals, you can and will learn to embrace success rather than fear it.

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