Uncover your Passion

 

 Perhaps you have heard of the saying “Your Passion is your Compass”..... when i first heard that i thought “yep, that sounds right” but then i started thinking. Where does passion actually come from and what exactly is the compass i am supposed to use to measure this.

Well let me help you out, your passion is the thing you think about constantly, the thing that excites you, makes you feel good and the thing you do when you don’t “have to”, you “want to”. Your passion is what drives you to learn more, achieve more and perhaps be more. Your passion is not someone else. I say this because I have heard many times in the past people say ,”I’m happy if you are happy.... you are the person I think about every day and you are the thing that i want to love more and more and you are the thing I am most passionate about. While this is admirable, this type of love or passion is often driven by external factors, being that of the response of another person and what I am talking about here is passion that lives inside you. It is your internal response and feelings that guide you. In fact this is where the concept of the compass comes from. Compasses where designed to show us direction, to help us stay on track, formulate a path and help us move in a desired direction.

Putting this together, we have, do what you love and you are moving in the right direction. Here are some questions to help you find your passion. Following this are some tool to help you read your inner compass.

Actions to find your passion

Questions

·         If you could do anything what would you do?

·         What do you love doing?

·         What are you doing when you are at your happiest?

·         If you had all the money you needed what would you be doing each day?

·         If you had all the time you needed what would you be doing each day?

·         What do you wake up dreaming about every day?

·         What is it you really want to be doing?

·         What’s going to inspire you to see, hear or feel this?

·          What would motivate you to take action towards doing this?

O    If you are searching fro even more clarity, consider what cartoons, movies or role models you had when you were between the ages of 7-14. This is the key modelling phase in our development where we take on values and beliefs of others. What did you love about these characters, what were their values and beliefs, what outcomes did they achieve etc

Activity

·         Create a vision board of your passion. Get a piece of cardboard or large paper and cut pictures from magazines of interest to you. Include pictures and words of things you would to be achieving, seeing and feeling. What are others doing as a result of your passion?