How to Discover Life Passion
Benefits of a Passionate Life and Career — (Chapter 1)
You have bills to pay people to support and work to do, but one of the most painful feelings is living a life that you know deep down isn’t the one that you were meant to live
When someone thinking about his/her passion was like : “This isn’t it. It’s not what I thought I wanted”
In the beginning, things feel exciting and you get a rush from doing something new, but you find yourself bored after a little while, and you search for the next big thing to do with your life.
I’m about to tell you something that most people don’t even realize and this is it.
Your passion isn’t something that can be figured out. I’ll explain shortly, but first, let me share a little more about how I know all this.
I grew up really poor both physically and emotionally and looking back on that time now, I never got to grieve the pain of having a broken family.
I was too busy just worrying about how to survive my emotions and focused only on making money. Coming from a broken family sucks. I was still unhappy, angry and lost.
I was so busy being proud of myself for getting myself into a much better financial situation than my father that I never really connected with who I really was in the first place. My trust issues were still there.
And once I started to not be as worried about money, things started to resurface in my heart.
This was when my heart began to open even further and I finally realized the reason I never really figured out what my passion was.
I tried hard to quitting my job to try something else wasn’t the only thing I did to try to figure out my passion.
I started to feel more disconnected with myself and began to feel even more lost.
By now, I thought I’ve tried everything to figure out my passion and I was starting to lose hope.
Then there came a moment where I finally understood what I’ve been doing wrong this whole time.
Here’s the real interesting part on why most people have so much trouble feeling what their passion is :
- What kind of job should I go for?
- What kind of school should I apply to?
- What are the next steps I should take with my life?
But here’s the big truth I realized :
- Finding your passion is an emotional process, not a logical one
- Passion cannot be figured out, it can only be felt
- For much of my life, I’ve been in a lot of pain
- I completely lost touch of who I really was and I was dying on the inside
Too many people don’t pursue anything because they’re “finding their passion” and to these people I just want to say :
You don’t need passion, at least not in the grossly oversimplified way we define it as “interests” and definitely not as a standalone thing.
If you’re already passionate, great and keep on keeping on.
This message is for everyone “trying to find their passion”
It’s for those sitting around waiting for “inspiration” and using a lack of it as an excuse to do nothing. It’s even for people who consider themselves “passionate” but allow it to dictate their effort levels.
In fact, even when I had my own business, I wasn’t really “passionate” about it.
I didn’t need to be passionate about what the solution looked like, just like I don’t need to personally like every drink I pour or every software solution I touch. I just need to care enough about people and what they want out of it.
You just need to find the one piece you need and once you find it, you just commit to and jump in on the rest.