How To Find Your Passion

Are you focused on discovering how to find your passion? The next 60 seconds will show you the 6 steps to take to uncover what activities you really love:

1. You must deeply want to find your passion

Finding your passion is a huge reward for anyone. Life only offers you it's most beautiful rewards if you earn them. You can earn the right to first know and then experience your passion, by consistently wanting it strongly enough.

When you want something to this degree, you think about it every day. 

Having this continuous desire means that you'll be thinking about it in a range of life experiences. 

The consistency of your 'wanting thoughts!' is what will eventually lead to you discovering your passion in life. Overall, undivided positive desire gets you what you want - eventually.

2. What excites, or interests you?

Which topics or activities engage and satisfy your mind? Without trying to sound too much like a detective, the things you enjoy are likely to be clues to your passion.

It took me quite some time to realise that I was really passionate about self improvement. There were a few months where it was on my mind all day, yet I wasn't getting the message...

What do you choose to think about during the day? Forget the stuff you have to think about, like your schedule or problems. What consistently penetrates your mind, because you are amused by thinking about it?

Once you've realised what this is (it can take weeks, or months!) you'll be successfully putting into practice how to find your passion! 

3. What do you know a lot about?

 If you have good knowledge on something, then the chances are you quite like it as a topic. 

List the things you know plenty of information about. 

Next, look at the 'topic words' you just wrote down. Do you feel a gut or heart-level connection with any of them? If so, that feeling is likely passion.

4. What types of TV programmes, movies and books are you drawn towards?

So, you're flicking through the TV guide or casually browsing the book store. What kinds of 'product' tend to grab your attention? Knowing this can show you your passion. I'll use myself as an example of how/why.

I love action-adventure type films. I realised that I like them because I want my lifestyle to be similarly adventurous. I especially enjoyed Prison Break, and the Bourne films. Through repetitive questioning "Why do I like these so much?" I understood that it is because of the elements of freedom that they both express.

Having freedom in life is one of my passions. 

Before I knew freedom was my passion, it was hidden in the things I liked to watch and read. I just had to discover it! The same can be said for you.

Delve deeply into WHY you enjoy certain movies, shows and books. What element of these grabs you so well? This mental quest will enlighten you of your passion.

As another example, a lot of women tend to like films based on romance. In my opinion, this is because generally, a female's utmost desire is to be giving and receiving ever-increasing amounts of love...

If you're a woman and you enjoy romance films and books, it's probably because your subconscious mind is stimulated by love-type scenarios. Why? Because you're passionate about love.

5. Do you have a dream that you don't tell anyone about?

When I was a kid I dreamed of being a professional soccer player. I still want to be a professional soccer player!  

You nor I; neither of us are passionate about actual activities. We are passionate about something these activities bring to us. Discovering what this something is, is the process of how to find your passion.

I found out that when you win at soccer (or any sport) you feel a sense of freedom. Little do people know it, but that's why sport is so popular worldwide. It's a chance to take your mind off of the rest of your life. This 'break' from your life is freedom. If you're a sport lover, you are knowingly or unknowingly following your passion.

If you've always had a dream of being something, have a good think about what it is that this dream would bring to you. 

Once you know what this dream would bring you (e.g. love, freedom, adventure etc) you've learnt how to find your passion. 

For instance, I can't be a professional soccer player, but I can still pursue the concept that I love about soccer (freedom) in other ways.

So, discover what it is that your dream would bring to you. If the dream is non-achievable (women who dream of being princesses *rolls eyes*) then find other ways of bringing into your life the great aspects of that dream.

6. Test your ideas!

If you've got something in mind that you feel could hold your passion, try it out!

When you try things because you are learning how to find your passion, you prove to the world that you really want this strongly. By proving yourself in such a way, you earn the right to unlock how to find your passion.

It can be scary and uncomfortable trying new activities. This is perhaps a little strong but, if you can't push through the fear of doing something, then you evidently don't want your target enough.

How to find your passion: Knowing when you've found it?

The process of how to find your passion is coming to an end when you get a heart-felt *this-is-it* style moment.

When you can think about doing something, and that thought penetrates your body with what I can only describe as a feeling of truth: That is when you've got your passion established.

It will feel right in your gut, and the feeling provides you with an unwavering surge of excitement-based energy. 

In a nutshell, when you've successfully put how to find your passion into practice, you just damn well know it!

Much Love

Sam

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