Finding your Passion

According to Wikipedia. Passion is a feeling of intense enthusiasm towards or compelling desire for someone or something. Passion can range from eager interest in or admiration for an idea, proposal, or cause; to enthusiastic enjoyment of an interest or activity; to strong attraction, excitement, or emotion towards a person.

It can be so frustrating when people advise you, “Just follow your passion!” Yeah, sure, you’d love to—if only you knew what your passion was.

Are you someone who works hard with so much commitment and persistence, but before you can become unstoppable, you need to know what you’re starting.

If you’re feeling stuck and you no longer find fulfillment in what you do, there are ways to discover what you really want to do with your life. Take time to work through the process and know that, no matter what, you’ll be getting closer to where you want to be.

Here are 3 ways that can help you discover your passion

1. Be Convinced Positively

If you walk into a boutique with a mindset that you won't find the right size of clothing or perfect color for a dress that you will like. Shopping there will be difficult and nothing may be appealing to you, because you did not go in with a right perspective.

Choose to adopt the perspective that you can do what you love with your life. One of the best ways to strengthen this point of view is to surround yourself with people who are living examples.

How many of your friends and family are following their passions? If it’s not many, it might be time to expand your circle; associate with—and be inspired by—men and women who are inspired by their work.

2. Seek an Umbrella

When you look at all the ingredients that matter to you, they might at first seem entirely disconnected. Let’s say you love taking pictures, drinking coffee, playing with words, singing, and being a leader within a community. How could you construct a career from these? It'd be like peering into your cupboard and seeing cocoa powder, garlic, pepper, and apple and wondering: How could I possibly make something delicious that includes all of these? delicious that includes all of these?

Finding Your Passion

This is the time to look beyond the ingredients and seek an umbrella; something that all of these ingredients can fit beneath. 

3. Discern between a hobby and a profitable passion

It might be that, through this exploration, you fall head over heels in love with an activity that engrosses you—something that lights you up and makes your heart sing. But now you have to ask yourself the next question: Who would benefit from (and pay for) this?

Well, if you want to contribute your passion to society and make an income from it, you need to get realistic about whether this could actually turn into a career—and what you would need to do to make that happen. Moreover, think about if you would even enjoy doing those things; for some people, a passion is just fun, and turning it into work changes it from a “love to do” to a “have to do.”

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