We all have something we are very passionate about, the moment it starts it's always as if it shouldn't even come to an end. I'm sure at some point in our lives we often get told by random people to find our passion. There are other questions people tend to ask Questions like "What activities makes you loose track of time", "What are your most vivid childhood memories of things you loved doing", "If you can do anything without worrying about the money or time, what would it be ?".
I would share my personal journey and provide a few tips about how you can identify, explore and monetize your passion.
I always felt the need to reach out to people, finding out their worries and helping them figure things out. This certain interest for empathizing with people further made me have a desire for advocacy in regards to equal human rights for minority groups like Feminists and the LGBTQ community. I figured they are often phased with a lot of challenges as regards to discrimination and socio economic negligence and how it affects their lives. Most of them had the difficulty of speaking up about their challenges because of the backlash that comes with telling your story. I was tasked to helping the LGBTQ community proffer solutions on the best ways to combat Homophobia, and joining feminists discuss several ways to cripple/dismantle the Patriarchy.
I want to share a couple tips on how you can discover explore and also monetize your passion and lead a fulfilling life.
1. Having a personal vision statement
With this tool you can have a clear understanding of what you want to achieve in your life, both personally and professionally. This is more like a compass that helps indicate direction. It guides you when you need to make life changing decisions. You could either write it down or have it at the back of your mind.
2. Realizing and uncovering your values
Your personal values are the things one regards as very important when you uncover the way you work and live. Your values are a huge determinant for your personal goals and priorities. This is also a good indicator to know whether or not your life and career path is moving in the right direction.
3. Find what motivates you
This is closely connected to getting a more clear and defined aspects of your core values. Ask yourself what types of impact or goals compel you mostly if there are others out there that share in the same passion as you. Your motivations should be things you are very good at doing when you are in your element, and these are the things you need to discover. Your motivations are where your values, beliefs and sense of purpose meet.
4. Make a list of the things you love doing
It's very essential for you to have a list of the things you live doing as it creates a sense of self awareness and also serves as a reminder for you to make research about them to be more more knowledgeable about your interests.
5. Assessing the things you don't love
It's important that you have a full understanding of the things you love and in the same way also very important to be self aware of the things you don't love.
Realizing the things you don't love will give you a better understanding of the things that make you who you are and provide good reasons not to do them.
6. Acknowledge your strengths
To discover ones true authentic self it is imperative to acknowledge your strengths. People often come to the realization that they're strengths are the moment when things come to them naturally. Once you put this into perspective you will have more reasons to achieve and accomplish bigger things than you envisioned.
7. Practice journaling
Although this might not sound as something viable to consider when discovering ones passion it is also a good tool to use in keeping track of your progress and personal growth.
Writing in a journal about your progress give you a means of knowing you love doing. Since this will be something personal I would encourage you write without any sense of judgement or limiting beliefs from others.
8. Being mindful of oneself
Practicing the habit of mindfulness teaches you that you're are already aware of our passions but it serves as a reminder of the conscious contract you made in effect to pursuing your passion.
9. Seek guidance from a Mentor/Coach
Having someone that can point you in the right path for chasing your passion can be of valuable aid. There are people who are more knowledgeable about your kind of passion and they would be willing to share their knowledge and insights about said passion with you.
10. Monetizing your passion
Although not very many passions are what can be monetized it is imperative that you figure out if your desired passion is something that can land you your dream job and is also a skill you can use for the Arts. Make research on the internet and find out if there are any job openings for your preferred choice of passion and utilize it optimally.
11. Surround yourself with those who have a similar passion as you
The only secret to successfully surrounding yourself with the same passion as you is knowing what inspires you, makes you feel confident and secure. Finding these same qualities in other people and exploring things side by side with them simply means you're on the right path.
It's very important to put these tips into consideration if you are someone that is very aware of their interests in life and are finally ready to pursue their passion, making sure to monetize it and see that it helps you actualize futuristic goals and objectives.
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