How to find your passion

“What’s your passion?”

I asked my friend once when we were having dinner.

“You know what, I haven’t really thought about it. Why do you ask?”

“Well, ” I said, “It just occurred to me that we’ve been working for the past six years and I just thought if this is what we really want to be doing for the rest of our lives.”

What is passion?

In my first post about this site, I found several meanings of passion.

And in my personal quest for passion, I’ve come up with my own definitions.

Passion drives you to do something and be somebody.

When you tap into your passion, it just infuses you with this tremendous energy and power. It fills you with confidence so that you can say to yourself, “I can be somebody.”

Passion is something you get excited about.

Your passion gives you that thrilling sensation. It brings you that natural high that moves you to do more and be more.

Passion is something you enjoy doing.

In fact, you enjoy doing it so much, you lose track of time when you do it. No matter the effort involved, it still feels effortless and it’s almost as if you don’t get tired at all.

Passion is something you’re good at.

You’ll find that your interests veer toward your passion. More than that, you’ll find that you are equipped to pursue your passion because your skills and talents are geared to fulfill it.

Are you beginning to form an idea of what your passion is?

Most people have a vague idea about their passion while some don’t even know what it is.

Most of the time, we have a tendency to fall into the rat race. We work tirelessly because we need to earn money. Sometimes (maybe most of the time), we don’t even like our jobs. Then we get burned out and feel that our life is going nowhere.

At one point, I realized that if I wanted to turn my life around, I needed to get serious about pursuing my passion.

I didn’t want to look back at my life and see how I’ve wasted years just earning money, scraping by to get a living when I haven’t really lived my life.

I realized that taking the time to find my passion was an important step in the journey to personal success.

So I made an honest evaluation of myself, answered some questions and let my ideas flow.

Once I found out what my passion was, the purpose of my life became clearer.

Why is passion important?

Passion helps us find our purpose.

This is one of the most important reasons for you to find your passion.

Passion and purpose are partners.

When you know what your passion is, you know what you can share to the world and it stimulates to find ways how to share it.

Waking up in the morning becomes more meaningful because you now have a vision. You begin to understand why you are here.

Passion helps to chart your direction.

When you have a vision, you develop a mission. You can see where you want to go, so you can start to plot how to get there. Now that you have a goal, you can determine the steps to achieve it.

Passion gives you fulfillment.

When you live your life according to your purpose, you feel fulfilled. When you know that you’ve possibly helped somebody or inspired someone by what you do, you begin to feel a deeper sense of who you are and what you are meant to do. And you just feel how wonderful life really is.

Passion makes you happy.

Fulfillment makes you happy because it makes you feel grateful for who you are and for how the world brings out the best in you.

How do you find your passion?

Finding one’s passion maybe easier for some more than others.

If you have a talent for singing and you love to perform on stage, for example, you passion may be more obvious, even automatic.

For others, it may take a series of introspections, mistakes and small discoveries before they can figure out what their passion is.

If you’re one of those who can’t figure our their passion just yet, don’t worry. It doesn’t mean you don’t have it. It’s just there waiting to be discovered,

When you decide that you’re ready to find your passion, you will need the following:

1. Some alone time in a quiet place. Early morning and late evening work best for me. Whatever time and place you pick, make sure you’re free from external pressures, deadlines and other distractions.
2. A pen and paper. Write down your ideas and thoughts. Writing helps to clear your head, to put some structure to your wayward thoughts and to free your thinking. Seeing your thoughts on paper also helps you to visualize them better.
3. Anything that motivates or inspires you. Mood music, a good book, a photograph. These can help you unlock your deepest memories, your loftiest dreams and your innermost desires all of which can lead you to discover your passion.
4. Honesty. This is one of the most important things you’ll need to know your passion, You need to be true to yourself and what you really want. No holds barred,

Questions to help unlock your passion

To help unlock your passion, I will share with you some key questions I have used to find mine:

1. What excites me?
2. What am I good at ?
3. What are my talents and skills?
4. What do I love to do?
5. What have I always wanted to be?
6. Who are the people I admire?
7. How do I want to see myself 20 years from now?
8. How do I want to be remembered when I die?

If you can’t answer these questions all at once, let them brew in your mind if you need to.

Be in tune with yourself, observe your surroundings and take cues from your daily experiences.

The answers may just hit your suddenly. Be patient and the answers will come.

Be warned though that when you finally find your passion, it might occupy your mind, drive your days and throw you in for an adventure that’s big, exciting and scary all at the same time.

Of course, knowing your passion is just the first step. Pursuing it and fulfilling it will certainly require some effort.

But when you do, the results can be life-changing. It can give you a life more wonderful and more amazing than you ever imagined.