Some Words about Passion

I’m lucky — I’ve found my passion, and I’m living it. I can testify that it’s the most wonderful thing, to be able to make a living doing what you love. Freelancing. In my case the focus is on Home Based Business, assisting people in there desire to Work From Home and Start A Business.

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” – Confucius

I have 2 Passions in my life in fact. One is to be completely financially free and independent, [having been there once and lost it I know for sure which is preferable!] the other is to further my Goal of establishing my Life Coaching School to teach 14 – 17 year olds the black art of Goal Setting and becoming financially independent through online marketing.

“You don’t get rich by doing certain things, you get rich by doing things a certain way” Wallace Wattles

Where do our ideas come from? Pre-school we dream the World but from kindergarten upwards mainly our dreams and Goals are suppressed. Can we be absolutely sure our Goals will make us happy? Most times our internal Goal is simply to be happy.

Passion either comes internally or it can be created. By tweaking the activities and things you engage in, you can find a passion for anything. All it takes is a bit of patience and an open mind. I’m even told working out can be turned into a passion

I learned about Goals 20+ years ago when I saw others around me being successful in mlm/Network Marketing and they were setting Goals. That led me onto a life long passion for Personal Development. First with Visualisations, then Hypnosis and thereafter taking my NPL Practitioner Diploma trained by Dr. Bandler himself.

Finding a Mentor can give you the basic level of understanding necessary to enjoy an activity. Sometimes passion can be drained just by not knowing the basics.

Confidence is essential for passion, but arrogance can destroy it. You need to build a humble respectful confidence where you believe in your abilities to handle the uncertain, but you also have a great respect for it.

Take ‘Baby Steps’; look at the next immediate step. Don’t concern yourself over what needs to be done next month or next year if it overwhelms you. Focus on each step of the journey, not how many miles you have left.  Q.“How do you eat an Elephant?” A. “One piece at a time!”

I have always been good at ‘connecting people’ essentially broking a deal, introducing and stepping back having secured my position of course. If you want to discover your true purpose in life, you must first empty your subconscious of all the false purposes you’ve been taught (including the idea that you may have none at all).

So how do you discover your true purpose in life? While there are many ways to do this, some of them fairly involved, here is one of the simplest that anyone can do. The more open you are to this process, and the more you expect it to work, the faster it will work for you. But not being open to it or having doubts about it or thinking it’s an entirely idiotic and meaningless waste of time won’t prevent it from working as long as you stick with it — again, it will just take longer to converge.

Here’s what to do:

1. Take out a blank sheet of paper or open up a word processor where you can type (I prefer paper but its up to you).
2. Write at the top, “What is my true purpose in life?”
3. Write an answer (any answer) that pops into your head. It doesn’t have to be a complete sentence. A  short phrase is fine.
4. Repeat step 3 until you write the answer that makes you cry. This is your purpose.

That’s it. It doesn’t matter if you’re a counselor or an engineer. To some people this exercise will make perfect sense. To others it will seem utterly stupid. Usually it takes 15-20 minutes to clear your head of all the clutter and the social conditioning about what you think your purpose in life is. The false answers will come from your mind and your memories. But when the true answer finally arrives, it will feel like it’s coming to you from a different source entirely.

Here are some prompts:

What puts a smile on your face?

What do you find easy?

What sparks your creativity?

What would you do for free?

What do you like to talk about?

What makes you unafraid of failure?

What would you regret not having tried?

Spend one week paying close attention to what excites you, touches you, inspires you to think in a whole new way, or even frustrates you. Watch for clues. Stories in newspapers, programs on television or conversations with friends may give you an indication of those things that will lead you to your passions.

Resources: Books on finding your passion

Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion – In Crush It! Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion, Gary Vaynerchuk shows you how to make a living doing what you love and how to use the power of the Internet to turn your real interests into a real business.
The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything – Sir Ken Robinson’s new book on Finding the Passion in your life (2009)
The Element Book – Sir Ken Robinson’s great lecture at the TED conference on self realization, how schools kill creativity, how education makes us unlearn to be creative, and many other great thoughts.
The Leader in Me: How Schools and Parents Around the World Are Inspiring Greatness, One Child At a Time – a real case book on how the 7 Habits paradigm was applied in teaching leadership to kids; by Stephen R. Covey (2008)

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Ian L. Hannaford
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