5 Ways to Find Your Passion
How can you find out what your passion is?
Doing a productive activity that you love can help life feel more meaningful. But how do you find out what your passion is? How do you discover your creative direction? Here are 5 thought exercises to help you recognize what truly drives you.
Find your Downstream Focus
What is it that you are naturally drawn to?
Which creative pursuits do you enjoy, that aren’t an obligation?
What do you find yourself doing if you are in a job or school lesson when you have some free time?
If it’s the right activity, you won’t be fighting against the current – you’ll let it carry you. It’ll feel natural.
Imagine Money is No Object
Many of us put our passions on hold when we grow up and enter the adult world because we simply have to make a living. Some of us are lucky to earn money from doing our passions, but many of us are not.
Yet we should be careful not to think that making money and our passions are related. Money does not necessarily correlate to our passions – it may even be impossible to make a living from your passion.
Letting go of this correlation opens up your options. It allows us to imagine what we would do if money was no object. If we no longer needed to work every day in order to survive, we could do things without focusing on what makes money, and focus on what makes us happy.
Remember Your Childhood
When you were a child, what activities did you enjoy doing? When nobody had any expectations of you – when you had abundant free time, what were you driven to do?
Which subjects at school inspired you?
What kind of people did you hang around with?
What games did you play? Which sports did you enjoy?
Perhaps remembering these times will remind you of times that you were motivated and inspired. Can you use these memories to figure out what you enjoy most?
Forget About Obligations
Forget about other people and what they want you to do. Forget about what makes money. Forget about future career prospects.
Don’t be distracted by the end results, live in the moment and enjoy what you are doing.
Discover what it is that makes you live – and just do it. Don’t let family, friends, or strangers on the internet sway you. Let go of your obligations and think about what you would love to be doing right now if money and work did not exist.
Invest some Time
If you still can’t find your passion, you may not even know what it is. The only way to find out is to spend time trying things out.
Fill your days with experiences. Try different things. Expand your horizons.
Getting to know yourself is the best way to find your passion. Learn what you enjoy and what you don’t enjoy. This base of experiences will let you shape your future direction.
Finding your Passion
Doing what we love is what gives our lives meaning. Finding your passion gives your life purpose. It makes us happier and more fulfilled regardless of what else life throws at us.
Live the life you were meant to live – Find Your Passion!