Many people flutter through life unfulfilled, unsatisfied, depressed and a feeling of no self worth. This is why I am writing about this because as many of you have struggled with this I too have and these are some of the tools that have helped me.
So in my last post we ended in talking about passions.
Lets figure out our passion.
Let me give you a few things to think about to help you rediscover your passion. read the question and take a minute to answer mentally.
1. What do you love? When you love something it give you the energy to persist in that area, you have a desire to do it over other things.
2. What do you hate? what bothers you with you think of it. (this will help in understanding what you were created to solve, problems you are to figure out & possibly help others with)
3. What is something you would do even if you didn't get paid to do it? It brings you joy and satisfaction, it makes you fell happy and content....fulfilled
4. What are some goals in your life you would like to attain?
Now take a few minutes and write it out.
- What are the top 3 thing you LOVE
- What are your top 3 goals
- If you only had 6 months to live what would you do
AND in 30 seconds write out the 3 most important things you would like to accomplish if time and money were not an issue. You had no physical or mental limitations.
Now the last is probably the most important.
Why you ask? Because you CAN have, do or be those last 3 things!
Really you can. It is just a matter of your passion....your purpose. What do you think on during the day? Do you think on what you don't have or can't do? Well if you think you can fail, YOU CAN!
NOW how do you GET those top 3 things? It is with Intensity of Purpose. You must intend on getting them and set your purpose each day to go out and get them, or work toward them. They are not just going to rain down from they sky into your back yard for you to pick up in the morning. You must work toward them. You MUST have a desire to get them/ do them or be that person. If there is no desire on your part it will not work.
But first you must believe you have the ability to DO IT! and you can.
We were all created for a specific purpose, to do something in this world. No one is a mistake, or an accident, we all have a purpose and it is ingrained in us from the very moment of conception, it is just our job to figure out what it is we are gifted at, this usually is in line with our passion. That is why I asked those questions earlier, to help you discover your passion.
It is so very sad when someone loses their passion or has not figured it out. This is a major cause of depression. For when one is following his or her passion it is in line with their purpose in life they truly are fulfilled.
In the next article Ill give you some practical pointers to work it out! Until then start believing in yourself!
Start dreaming big, and rehearsing in your mind the top three things in DETAIL...Get a Vision!
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Certainties of Life-Passion-Life Cycles
I have been thinking lately about the cycles in life. First as big thinking, young adults how we start out full of ambition, vim and vigor with this great notion that we are going to make a difference in this world we have passion and enthusiasm, energy, ideas maybe not directed toward a particular "thing" but and overall general sense of I am going to make a difference.
This is fantastic! A wonderful way of thinking it gives one purpose in the morning when the sun peeks over the horizon, a reason to pull their feet out of the warm cozy bed in the morning and place them on the cold uninviting floor.
SO we continue on through life five, ten, fifteen years, facing the certainties of life, the search for your one true love, career, the realities of monthly expenses and trading your time for dollars, family and other obligations we tend to get ourselves into. Only the firey few have the beginning enthusiasm they once did and it has effected their years, in a good way.
The rest of us, Yes, we may still have the desire to change the world, to do something greater than ourselves but the cares of this life, the certainties, have consumed us and when we do get a break or what we call it here in America "a vacation" or time off, we don't want to think about another thing to do, we want to relax, or in some cases catch up on projects that have been neglected for some time.
And yes, hey we still have some sort of enthusiasm about something (hopefully) but not to do it ourselves as in the early years. We don't want to be the patriarch, the ones to set out to change the world or a particular issue, but we are totally willing to pitch in and help someone who has that ambition and not to mention the energy to go along with it.
Does any of this sound familiar to you? It does to me.
So I ask myself why. Why is it that before the certainties of life their was a drive to do and to be but as the years go by, things are happening...... the bulb dims, the dreams the goals seems to get further away and harder to attain and we have less mental energy to think on them coming to terms that they may not ever happen. But is that really true or is that a mind set that we place there ourselves or allow others to for us?
I do alot of reading, I love to learn and gain insight form many different perspectives, and recently a dear friend of mine game me this book and she inscribed it "May this encourage you to plan your obsession" needless to say I devoured the book and am now on my 3rd read.
The book is from the great Dr. Mike Murdock who is an amazing man and writes very easy to read and understand book with tons of information, wisdom and insight, so one read through is usually not enough, and it requires a highlighter to REALLY point out the stuff you need to sink in.
Anyway I believe not only from reading though this book but as I stated before that this has been stirring around in me for quite some time and I have discovered something no matter where we are in our life, if we are caught up in the certainties of life or if we are just have no ambition or drive we must first of all figure out what our passion is.
You must have one, everyone does but maybe it got lost and buried over the years.Think on this what do you love, what gives you joy when you think about it . If you could do what ever you wanted with out time or money restraints what would you do?
That is a clue right there as to what your passion is.
I'll continue more later and get more specific on how to find your passion and then what to do with it!
Be blessed in this day Friends.
This is fantastic! A wonderful way of thinking it gives one purpose in the morning when the sun peeks over the horizon, a reason to pull their feet out of the warm cozy bed in the morning and place them on the cold uninviting floor.
SO we continue on through life five, ten, fifteen years, facing the certainties of life, the search for your one true love, career, the realities of monthly expenses and trading your time for dollars, family and other obligations we tend to get ourselves into. Only the firey few have the beginning enthusiasm they once did and it has effected their years, in a good way.
The rest of us, Yes, we may still have the desire to change the world, to do something greater than ourselves but the cares of this life, the certainties, have consumed us and when we do get a break or what we call it here in America "a vacation" or time off, we don't want to think about another thing to do, we want to relax, or in some cases catch up on projects that have been neglected for some time.
And yes, hey we still have some sort of enthusiasm about something (hopefully) but not to do it ourselves as in the early years. We don't want to be the patriarch, the ones to set out to change the world or a particular issue, but we are totally willing to pitch in and help someone who has that ambition and not to mention the energy to go along with it.
Does any of this sound familiar to you? It does to me.
So I ask myself why. Why is it that before the certainties of life their was a drive to do and to be but as the years go by, things are happening...... the bulb dims, the dreams the goals seems to get further away and harder to attain and we have less mental energy to think on them coming to terms that they may not ever happen. But is that really true or is that a mind set that we place there ourselves or allow others to for us?
I do alot of reading, I love to learn and gain insight form many different perspectives, and recently a dear friend of mine game me this book and she inscribed it "May this encourage you to plan your obsession" needless to say I devoured the book and am now on my 3rd read.
The book is from the great Dr. Mike Murdock who is an amazing man and writes very easy to read and understand book with tons of information, wisdom and insight, so one read through is usually not enough, and it requires a highlighter to REALLY point out the stuff you need to sink in.
Anyway I believe not only from reading though this book but as I stated before that this has been stirring around in me for quite some time and I have discovered something no matter where we are in our life, if we are caught up in the certainties of life or if we are just have no ambition or drive we must first of all figure out what our passion is.
You must have one, everyone does but maybe it got lost and buried over the years.Think on this what do you love, what gives you joy when you think about it . If you could do what ever you wanted with out time or money restraints what would you do?
That is a clue right there as to what your passion is.
I'll continue more later and get more specific on how to find your passion and then what to do with it!
Be blessed in this day Friends.
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