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How To Live Your Passion

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Do you wake up every morning excited about your job? Do you enjoy what you do every day that you walk with a spring and a smile on your face? Are you living a satisfied and fulfilled life? Are you proud of the person you are at work because you are loving it and giving it your best? Do you feel you’ve a purpose, you’re living your purpose in your work? If not, then it’s about time you found who you really are. Find what makes you happy, what leaves you feeling complete and satisfied at the end of the day. Its time you stopped confusing your hobbies for your passion. Follow the simple steps below.

1. Differentiate your Hobbies and Passions

Let’s not all assume that we can differentiate the two. A hobby is something you do outside your normal schedule, when you’re bored for instance. Or when you’re in need of relaxing. Now a passion, to put it simply is, something you just can’t not do. It’s something you’ll sacrifice to do every day for the rest of your life. It’s your dream. It fulfills you and gives you purpose. Make sure you won’t stop teaching and start cooking because you love doing it when you’re bored.

2. Take a Step

You’re waking up every day telling yourself you got to pay the bills. Writing won’t do it. It just can’t. So you go through the motions like the thousands of others like you. You walk into a class and teach those kids hating every minute of it. You get home exhausted and drained from being on your feet all day. You feel lost, incomplete, dissatisfied and bitter because someone else is living your dream. What you don’t know is maybe that someone hates what she’s doing too. So take a moment, call yourself to a meeting and tell yourself “nothing but the truth”. Not the colored truth, the harsh truths. The deep meaningful, soul-searching brutal truths about your unhappiness. Know your passion, your dream and take a chance at it. Stop talking yourself out of writing that book, or painting and just do it. Write the first word, the first sentence, the first paragraph…soon enough, it will be the first chapter and you’ll be loving every minute of it. Besides, what you got to lose for trying?

3. Be willing to Give it All

We all know taking the first step is always hard. But like they say, a journey of a thousand mile starts with a single step. If you’re ready to start, are you willing to be patient, to give it your best, to own your strengths, your weaknesses and your uniqueness? Starting isn’t easy, but overseeing your dream isn’t either. You need to understand that there are challenges. So you need to own your passion. Know your values and work to keep them. Make sure you are willing to sacrifice. To know what is right and what make you happy while doing what you love. Sacrifice for your dream. If is negative and unhelpful and unsupportive friends, kick them out. Give up the bad habits and poor lifestyle choices. Give your passion you’re A Game.

4. Invest in your Productivity

If you’re not productive as a person, then how are you to work towards making the best choices, how would you give your A Game. Invest in yourself and your productivity. Love yourself. Learn organizational and time management skills. Eat healthy and exercise regularly. Drink water to keep hydrated. Read inspirational, positive and empowering books. Keep yourself in a positive mindset. After all, garbage in, garbage out.

5. The Time is Right

If you keep telling yourself it’s not the right time to leave your job and focus on your dream, the right time will never come. So start today. There will never be a right time. Now is the right time. You want to do it, then do it now. Tomorrow never comes after all. If you need the job for the bills today, tomorrow you’ll need it for the children’s tuition fee, then for the new house. You’ll live like that with “I’ll do it tomorrow, next month” and you’ll soon be old, fat, bitter and totally unfulfilled. There will never be a better time to live your dream, your passion, like today. Learn how to overcome procrastination and reach you goals faster.

 

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