How Can You Find Your Passion? 5 Tips To Help You...

Self Development: Books To Help You Find Your Passion

In John Maxwell’s book “Becoming A Person of Influence“, he speaks about how a leader helps people tap into their passion – even IF a quiet person, he/she nevertheless will have passion. Dig deep.

Here are 5 Ideas to Help a Person Find Passion and Discover Their Purpose:

1. Take a Look at Yourself – Do Some Self Examination: if you don’t know how to begin, use this workbook: Finding Your Own North Star

This book is rated 4.4 Stars out of 5 at Amazon.com. I have read the book myself and it helped me. It guides you into self-reflection - which is the FIRST STEP in the process.

Here are 4 MORE Suggestions:

Brainstorm Ideas: For Best Results, Get a Pen and Paper.
Just Let it Flow. You don’t want to censor yourself; you want to understand yourself.
Take Action – A Most Important Step
Do Not Be Afraid of Failing – This, after all, is how you learn (Duh!)

**Note: It May Help You to Talk to a Friend Who Likely Has Some Experience in #Failing

Decide on a Particular Area to Concentrate on, and FOCUS like hell !

(Be Sure to Surround Yourself Only with Positive Influences, and Do Not Listen to That Negative Inner Voice in your Head)

I was very overprotected as a youth, and was not given much chance to make mistakes and then learn from them. So I can speak from actual experience that it is not the way to go, for most people. Brainstorm ideas & think long & hard about just how much you might have to gain – true wisdom, and inner strength will be gained in most cases (for most people).

Again I suggest you find a good book (like Martha Beck's "Finding Your Own North Star"), sit down in a quiet place where you’ll be undisturbed; and go through the book and EXAMINE Yourself -- and be sure to take down notes. Have a sheet of paper with 2 columns on it – 1 column for your Weaknesses and the other column for your Strengths.

Next, start to go through the chapters of “Finding Your Own North Star”

I found CHAPTER 8 "READING YOUR EMOTIONAL COMPASS" quite helpful - You see, it forces you to get "in touch" with yourself. If there's anything you're avoiding, you'll write this down; one EXERCISE asks, "Is There Anything You Don't Want to Know?"

Are you AVOIDING something - like, the TRUTH about your romantic relationship? Or something in your finances?

There are 15 chapters, in all. And they do all have questions to answer and exercises to do; one EXAMPLE is 'Write down at least 6 words to describe what you're feeling'.

[*NOTE: There is ample space for recording your notes ]

The thing is, Martha Beck is humorous in her writings - so this book is NOT a dry read. An example/excerpt from CHAPTER 1 explains, "If your life is cloudy and you're far off course, you may have to go on faith for a while.. but EVENTUALLY you'll learn that every time you trust your internal navigation system, you end up closer to your right life."

This book is about re-connecting with yourself

TIP: Try and take time for Self-examination after each & every chapter

TIP: Chapter 10 speaks to 'Your Free Psychic Hotline' (which is your own INTUITION)

Additional Resources :

Reverse Brainstorming

Understanding Yourself and Others

Becoming A Person of Influence By John Maxwell