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What Could Be More Important in Life Than... Finding Your Passion?

Hee hee. Seriously, there's a lot to be said for finding one's 'mojo' - 'firing on all cylinders' is so much more fun than feeling deflated and direction-less, to be sure.

And maybe finding your mojo is just another way of finding passion, of living a life with passion.

I'm not sure, I just know that it's important to find your passion in this life, it really is.

And I know it's a lot easier said than done.

It requires listening to your self, or your intuition - perhaps it even requires some regular meditation.

There's help at hand, though, via the quick thoughts of others, and I get to tell you a bit about finding my own passions in life, and you - naturally! - also get to have your say.

After all, finding your passion (and then following it) should be an inclusive experience, don't you think, shared with as many people as possible.

Finding Your Passion

Finding your passion - what I (and others) say...

"Most people are doing what they do because they have to."
-- Michael A. Verdicchio.

Hmm, I think it's more because they think they have to do it Michael, actually! And doesn't that sound like a sad way to live life?

"If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived?
Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it
become you and you will find great things happen FOR you,
TO you and BECAUSE of you." -- T. Alan Armstrong

I think so. (And so does T. Alan Armstrong, clearly!) And that's why I quit being a freelance computer programmer in 2000 - a job I enjoyed, that paid well, but that did not inspire me - and started out life as a web designer, as I really couldn't think of anything else better to do.

I was interested in 'finding your passion', as it were, a while ago but could only think to quit what I DIDN'T like!

I knew my life - my job! - did not involve passion, but I did not know how to find that passion. So I simply did something that I enjoyed, and I hoped that it would pay the bills. (It did, eventually, but that was more luck than judgement.)

Nowadays I think there are better ways in finding your passion (and in earning an income from it), I really do. And that's why I decided, in February 2008, to try to find my passion and then earn some money from it.

(If you're at all interested in how I came to create SelfHelpCollective.com, and how you might also be able to do the same with your own interests, then why don't you check out my site building diary at this link! It's a fascinating (and still ongoing) journey, for sure...

Here's the link: http://www.site-buildit.com/sbi-diary.html .)

So that is my experience of 'finding your passion'.

And I never would have thought that 'self help' was of such an interest to me. But then I've always been interested in my own personal development, and in trying to understand why people do things the way they do. (I know, what an ambitious undertaking!) So in some ways it was an obvious discovery for me.

And I still love working on this site, and I love it even more when people share their experiences of life, or they get in touch with comments about the site.

What about you? Have you ever tried to really examine your life, your interests, and thus work out what your passions are. Have you ever tried to make a living out of these passions? I tell you, it certainly beats 'working' for a living... :-)

I am still no expert on being able to find your passion, I know that, but I am definitely going in the right direction! And that feels 'nice', to say the least. I could even say that it feels like one of those 'finding your mojo' moments. ;-)

Okay, that's enough of me. Now it's time for more words from Michael Verdicchio:

"Passion is what moves you; it is what excites you;
it is what stimulates you to action. Passion is all
about what is going on internally, not externally.
And so, finding your passion is to find what it is
that really moves you."

Or, what would you do if you'd just WON the lottery (i.e. if money was no longer of concern to you)?

This 'lottery question' neatly identifies what is TRULY important to a person, I believe. Most people would be able to think of activities that they'd still continue to work on even if they had all the money in the world (I'd carry on working on this self help site, for example.)

Can you think of some specific activities, maybe, that you'd still do if you'd won the lottery?

It's about feeling satisfied with what you do, with how you feel, with what you contribute to the world I guess - what talents you share for the benefit of others.

Of course, I may well be wrong...

Finding your passion - what YouTube has to say...

There's an exercise to help you find your passion from The Love Coach Carolin Dahlman. She urges you to 'Get motivated, find your passion in life!' (Video is 8 mins long.)

(Hey! Listen to The Love Coach and do what she suggests. This stuff works! )

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