Passion is the true energy of life. It is what every philosopher, artist, and explorer searches for. It’s an energy that can transform your life and open up a whole new world of meaning and peace. In the last few weeks I have chased passion and felt the benefits of it in every area of my world.
I wanted to share some ways that I create passion every day so that you can learn how to do it for yourself and experience how it can change your world.
Find Your Life Purpose
I know this sounds New Age-y but until you find out what excites you you’re going to have a tough time feeling passionate about your life. You don’t need to go on a mystical quest to find yourself in fact you may already know what your purpose is. It’s the thing that you can talk about for hours and never get bored. It’s what you would choose to do if you won the lottery and never had to work another day.
Your Life Purpose could be as simple as becoming a parent, or a teacher. It could be writing, or discovering new music, or cooking gourmet food. Maybe your purpose is to see the world, or to go out partying with your friends. It does not matter if your purpose is selfless or completely selfish. Once you discover what brings passion into your life and you chase it you will be making your life, and the lives of those around you better.
Take a few minutes and write down your life purpose, if it’s something you wish to share add it as a comment below. Remember there is no right or wrong answer as long as your purpose is something that fills you with excitement just by thinking about it. If you are really struggling with this I recommend you take a look at these articles at The Personal Excellence Blog which helped me nail my own purpose down.
Discover A New Hobby Or Learn A New Skill
It amazes me at how many people refuse to do this as it’s become one of the most rewarding parts of my life. The possibilities this can open up for you are insane. Maybe you’ll find a new best friend. Maybe you’ll learn a skill that you can later turn into a business of your own. Even if your new hobby doesn’t work out you’ve still learned something about yourself that you didn’t know before. This week before you sit down to watch True Blood or whatever you’ve got on your TiVo consider leaving your television off and learning something new.
Help Someone Out
Doing a good turn daily is a principle taught by the Boy Scouts and it is a great way to make you feel excited about your self by giving to someone else. This can be a spur of the moment event, like holding the door for a mother with a stroller, but the best way to keep this momentum going is to find a way to contribute regularly.
I found a passion in creating lifestyle businesses and I am helping my friends and family create some for themselves. It is a true win-win situation. I enjoy the work I am doing, and it is great to watch them succeed. This should not be a chore. You should be helping someone as a way to make both of your lives (and thus the world) better. Tell me how you are helping people in your comments below!
Dream Up Your Perfect Life
If you are ever feeling particularly bummed out and need a quick infusion of passion this tip is for you. Grab a pen and some paper and start dreaming up your perfect life. The most effective way is to write it as though it is a letter from your future self telling you about all the great things they’ve already experienced. Instead of writing “My life would be perfect when” change it to “My life is perfect because”. This little change will trick your brain into thinking along those lines and your emotions will immediately follow suit.
You can do this activity for as long or as short as you want. If there is a specific situation you would like to fix, write the letter telling yourself what it is like now that this problem has disappeared. If it’s just your life in general you are tackling feel free to go one for page after page listing all the great things you can think of. It might be helpful to keep these letters together in a book or a folder so you can go back and reread what you have written you might surprise you to see that some of the stuff you wrote may have come true.
Plan Awesome Into Your Future
Another way to feel passionate about your life is to fill it with things that you are passionate about. It seems simple but it’s something I see a lot of people forget to do. Quickly make a list of things you love to do. I love going to concerts, hanging out with my friends and eating sushi! Since I know these things make me excited I do them regularly. I plan them out and mark them in my calendar in huge letters. I know that no matter what might go wrong this week I’ve got something to look forward to.
This is simple but it’s effective. Life is just a series of events, fill those events with activities that make you feel passionate and excited and your life will be the same.
Your Bonus For Being Fantastic: Change Your Mind
This is the single most effective tip I know of to make any moment full of passion and excitement.
You know by now that it’s impossible to choose everything that happens to you. Sometimes bad things happens, sometimes you are stuck in a situation that you wish were different, and there is generally nothing you can do about it. Stop trying to change these situations and instead focus your energy on changing how you feel about it. If you can learn to turn your mind from complaining about what you don’t like and instead use it to find ways to make every moment, good or bad, full of passion and meaning you will have learned what every guru has been trying to teach since the beginning of time.
“Live With Passion” photo provided under a Creative Commons License by It’s Holly
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