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This here is Q&A Tuesday and today’s question comes Janelle and she writes:
“Hi, Marie.
I've spent the last several months reevaluating what I want to do with my life.
I've been reading self help books and watching videos with some of the greats to find inspiration,
my inner purpose, create a vision board, learn positive thinking, you name it.
But I'm really struggling to find my true passion.
I know what I'm great at and the things I enjoy doing but I still haven't nailed a specific
passion yet.
Any advice?
All the best.”
Janelle, this is one of the most commonly asked questions ever and I struggled with
this myself, in fact, for years when I was first starting out.
I was making the same mistake that most people make, which is you can't find your passion
by thinking about it in your head.
Why?
Because of this here tweetable:
“Clarity comes from engagement, not thought.”
This is especially true with finding your passion.
I remember one of the things that I was “passionate” about was hip hop dance, but I spent so much
time, wait let me correct that, wasted so much time thinking about whether or not I
should do it as a career.
I remember thinking to myself I have zero dance training and most people start dancing
when they're in the womb and I was already in my mid 20s.
I also was worried because I felt like dance wasn’t really a smart long term career choice.
I thought well I'm not going to make that much money, it could be a little unstable,
yada yada yada.
Finally, I got smart and I got up off my butt and actually put myself into a dance class.
It was at Broadway Dance Center and I remember it was the first pro class that I had ever
taken in my life and I was sitting on the floor and I was stretching and I actually
started weeping tears of joy because it felt so right in my body and in that moment I knew
there was no way that I was not going to go for this as a career.
It totally took all the wishy washiness away and I got really clear because I engaged and
I took action.
Now there's a lot more to this story but the relevant part for you is you have to stop
thinking and start doing.
You’ve gotta remember: clarity comes from engagement, not thought.
Jennelle, you said that you had some ideas about what you think you might be passionate
about, you know what you like doing; stop thinking and just get out there.
Whether that’s getting a job in that field, volunteering, taking a class, I don’t care
what you need to do; you just need to get your buns out there and do it.
The second part I want to talk about which I also think most people get wrong is this:
passion is not something that you can go find at the end of the rainbow and no it is not
in a box of Lucky Charms.
That’s because passion is not something that exists outside of yourself.
The real secret to this whole finding your passion thing is that you have to train yourself
to bring passion to everything that you do.
When you wake up in the morning, be passionate about making your bed, and when you're making
lunch, be passionate about making lunch, and even when you're doing the dishes, you gotta
be passionate about doing the dishes.
I know this sounds kind of hokey, but I got to tell you it works.
Passion is contagious.
When you're passionate and you're passionate about everything that you do, people around
you start to take notice and they want to know what's up with you and can they get in
on whatever you're doing.
I promise you if you really executed this, you're going to find opportunities just falling
in your lap and very, very quickly, you're going to fall into what you're meant to do
in this world, and I gotta tell you it will be magically delicious.
That is my A to your Q. Hope it helps.
Now I would love to hear from you.
Have you ever struggled to find your passion?
If so, how did you crack the code?
If you're in the position of still struggling and you're still looking around for it, how
can you create a specific action plan based on today’s advice?
More concretely, I want to hear how you're going to shift from thinking into engagement.
As always the best discussions happen after the episode over at MarieForleo.com so go
there and leave me a comment now.
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