Welcome to Day 3 of Five Days to Discovering Your Passion. Yesterday we looked at taking action to find passion. Now we’ll consider recurring themes and discuss patterns that help or hinder passion.
Reflection:
It’s highly likely that passions are already present and active in your everyday lifestyle.
You get into conversations, browse the internet, read books or blogs, watch videos on YouTube, and write or talk to others about topics of interest.
Look at your budget, checkbook, or credit card statements for clues. Check out the past 6 months of your calendar entries. You invest time and money into things that you value.
There are specific topics that grab your attention - just as there are subjects that you find tedious, uninspiring, or frustrating. Topics you love to learn about, read about, and write about are areas of passion that you’re developing, whether you recognize it or not.
When an old friend calls you and wants to know what you’ve been up to, pay attention to what you share. We naturally want to share areas of high interest with those people we care about.
At times, you’ll find yourself envying what another person is doing. That can be an important clue to what you’re missing in your life.
It might not be the exact same activity, but aspects of what they’re doing could motivate you to try a new activity or launch a business venture.
Patterns and habits, both positive and negative, either nurture or hinder the development of passions. To a large degree, taking ACTION is what will bring joy into your life.
Achieving a passion will require you to honestly examine priorities. Sometimes you’ll battle laziness or the “tyranny of the urgent.” Unhelpful habits get in the way of a wholehearted discovery process.
Action:
What recurring themes do you uncover when you examine the things that you…
Read about
Write about
Spend money on
Invest time in
Love to talk about
What areas of interest does your calendar reveal about your time investment?
What areas of interest does your budget reveal about your financial investment?
What part does procrastination play in preventing your pursuit of passions?
What about laziness or putting urgent (but not really important) things above your own desires?
That’s it for today! Tomorrow we’ll discuss some of the ways you can explore a potential passion and further assess possible career paths.
