FIND YOUR PASSION
Find Your Passion and Do What You Truly Love
 | What makes your heart sing? Everyone has probably thought about this, but not everyone knows their true passion. Knowing what kind of ice cream you like? Easy. Knowing what you love to do and want to spend the rest of your life pursuing? Difficult. And terrifying. So terrifying in fact, that many women would rather stay in dead-end jobs and spend days doing things they don’t like rather than face the truth about their true passion. | |
The most difficult part about discovering your true passion and calling in this life is that once you realize it, you have to go for it. Ignorance is bliss and once you discover that your calling is to care for dogs or arrange flowers or run a magazine- well then, you have to do it, and that is where the hard work comes in.
WHAT'S YOUR PASSION?
Where is your heart leading you? Do you want to find out your true heart's desires? Take some time to sit and relax, ponder these following questions and write down what comes to mind. Forget grammar, don’t worry about complete sentences- the idea is to get the thoughts out of your brain and onto paper so you can refer to them later and look for emerging patterns.
The most important thing is to allow yourself to brainstorm and not to edit your thoughts before they get to the paper. No one will read this but you, and you are not answering for the approval of your boss, spouse, boyfriend, friends, parents, or kids. This is just for you.
Answer these questions honestly and truthfully. Slowly think about the question and immediately jot down what comes to mind first. Let’s begin:
1. What do you lose track of time doing? What are you doing when you look up at the clock and think, where did the time go?
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2. You have a whole afternoon to yourself with nothing planned. What do you do?
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3. What did you love to do as a child? Did you have any unusual hobbies outside the realm of normal kids play?
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4. What is your favorite compliment to receive?
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5. What makes your heart beat faster?
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6. What are you really good at- better than almost anyone else?
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7. How do you want to spend your days? Sitting in front of a computer all day is heaven for some people, hell for others.
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8. Who do you emulate? Who are your role models? What public figures do you admire, and why?
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9. What do you spend hours reading about?
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10. What is your ideal ‘every’ day (as opposed to your ideal vacation day)
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11. What do your friends compliment you on and tell you that you do well? Not sure? Ask them; they will be happy to help you to find your path in life and can often see things in you that you do not.
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12. If money was no option and you were filthy rich, how would you pass the days?
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13. What are your big-picture goals in life?
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14. What can you best give the world?
Take some time with these questions; be patient with yourself and realize that no one can discover your passion for you. Only you know, deep down, what makes your heart sing and your days happy. Only you can create the future you desire, so what are you waiting for?
The important thing is to let go of what you think you are supposed to do, and make room in your mind for what you want to do. When you follow your heart and go after your passion, everything else will fall into place.
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”- Eleanor Roosevelt
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Shilo Urban is a freelance writer who has just relocated to Los Angeles after her previous homes of Seattle, New Zealand, Paris, Maine, and Austin. She is an active member of the West Coast electronic music community and lives to promote the art that she loves and the people who create it.
