This Amazing Emotion - OUR PASSION - How to Identify, FIND + CREATE , BOOST and SUSTAIN OUR PASSIONs
So How do we go about Finding, discovering and identifying our passions
First we need Ask ourselves the following questions
- 1. Where all success come naturally to you
- 2. What you learn fast
- 3. What you love doing now
- 4. What you love teaching others
- 5. What you stand for
- 6. What makes you forget to eat and pee - doing what makes you get completely lost in - that you lose track of time
- 7. What can you talk about for hours that when you talk about it – which makes you light up
- 8. What would others remember you for – list at least 10 things
- 9. If there were no limitations - what you would be doing
- 10.What is working well for you in which of your aspect of life, career, profession, relationship, social
- 11.What do you find fulfilling, meaningful, enjoyable
- 12.What drains you, irritates you, makes you stressed, or wastes your time - What isn't working for you
- 13.What challenges makes you energetic and enthusiastic
- 14.Identify what you feel like doing for the suffering of others
How to activate your passions - How to start from scratch – the basics
- 1. Think about your childhood hopes and dreams
- 2. Identify your personal values.
- 3. Make a bucket list and try to achieve each item.
- 4. Make time in your schedule to be creative.
- 5. Create an inspiration board.
- 6. Do a mind map – free writing
- 7. Have a brainstorm session with a partner or a team,
- 8. Draw or build one idea a month
- 9. Watch inspirational talks and discussions
- 10.Give back to others with compassion and kindness – do acts of charity more often
- 11.Be an active listener
- 12.Donate Time, Money, or Talent
- 13.Ask for and Listen to Feedback
14. Surround Yourself with Positive People 15. Have Conversations with New People 16. Consider which Injustices Bother You 17. Discover What You Love to Do -Consider what type of skills, talents, and passions you bring to the table. Then, brainstorm how you might turn your passion into something meaningful to you.
18.Which are the qualities and strengths that makes you unique - You must find your strength & build on it - because it takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.
How to SUSTAIN Our PASSION
All of Us Have Few Potent Emotions - Both Negative & Positive Ones – If Utilized in Correct Manner, They Can Get Us Revolutionary Results.
If These Powerful Tools are Not utilized in the Right manner - They Can Even Cause destructive and disastrous outcomes.
The Good News is this that creating Passion is easier– BUT THE BAD NEWS is THAT – Sustaining Passion is ONE OF THE MOST DIFFICULT THING TO DO.
To sustain our passion, we need have the following prerequisites
- 1. The First Element - You Focus on Excellence
- I.Remember The Book "Good to Great" by Jim Collins - It Says That "The Good is The GREATEST ENEMY OF THE GREAT".
- II.If You feel satisfied with Good - Chances are You May not have Passion For Anything Great – You May just Have What is Known As Wishful Thinking - But No Driving Power To Take You Towards Them.
- III.But if You Get driven by creating Excellence inWhatever You Do – Even The supposedly routine tasks - Then You Have The Basic Element of PASSION
- 2. The Second Factor - having big dreams which are larger than life - Even Irrational Ones – which excites you - Like Dr. Adbul Kalam Said " Dreams Are Not Those Which We Dream While Sleeping – BUT – Are Those Which Do Not Let Us Sleep".
- 3. The Third Ingredient - You compete with yourself - Your Focus is Always Making Yourself Better Today Than Tomorrow. Learning & Developing Self Excites You.
- 4. The Forth Quality - You take calculated risks and love to venture into the realm of unknown and uncertain
- 5. The Fifth Component - Failures makes you put more efforts with higher energies - You Plan to Succeed- BUT – You Treat Each Failures As A Learning Experience - You Learn & Move On.
- 6. The Sixth Constituent - You pro-actively Anticipate & Welcome Changes.
- You Are Open to adopting Newer Paradigm - and - You Try To Make Your Earlier Yourself Obsolete - Before Other Can – By Changing Yourself/ Upgrading Your Ways/Updating Yourself/upskilling/reskilling yourself
- 7. The Seventh Feature - You Continuously Boost Your Motivation
- You Meet The People Who Have Achieved Extra-Ordinary + You Read About Them + You Look for Inspiration All around You
- 8. The Eighth Item -You Have Created & Maintain +Nurture A Support Network As Well As Mentors - Who You Push You up – Whenever You Are Down.
- 9. The Ninth Part - You are a doer - You Are Always in The Action Mode & Always Goal Focused.
- 10.The Tenth Aspect - You Enjoy Diversified Activities – indoor, outdoor, adventure
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