How to Find Your Passion - Remember Your Successes

How do you find your passions easily?

What do you do that is so natural to you, you hardly notice? What is easy, and just 'you'? Well, if you could find these things, they are an excellent place to start with finding your passions.

"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do"

                                                                Rumi

What are your successes?

How do you bring the obvious into view then? One way is to start by remembering your success already. Where have you already succeeded? Maybe its fitness, or you own your own home, or you have a thriving garden, or you got that qualification, or you have an amazing stamp collection.

Make a list of all the areas that are already a success. It doesn't matter if they seem irrelevant, or not something that will make you a career. In fact, those 'irrelevant' things may well be the very things that are hiding in plain sight, that point to your true passions.

What we are looking for here are the attitudes and things you did to make these areas a success, as well as things that you may have over looked as being important.

Why are these successful?

And then, why are these areas a success? You did some things to make them happen, right? They came about with effort and attitude and perseverance.

Here are some ideas from my own lists of successes, things that I (surprisingly to myself) did to make my areas successful.

- Know you will succeed
- Believe that you can
- Look at the positives
- Know the positive benefits of success and keep them in mind
- Give it your dominant attention
- It is a habit
- Do it every day
- Schedule it
- Keep doing it even when things get hard or boring
- Re-evaluate occasionally and make changes and tweaks to improve things
- Constantly learn
- Read books
- Research
- Improve constantly
- Enjoy doing it
- Be excited by it
- Get advice from experts
- Have a mentor
- Watch others
- Share it with others
- Find others doing the same thing
- Do it to a method
- Make easy small steps so you can accomplish small milestones (tick boxes are a favourite for me!)
- Don't give up
- Go with the flow

3 Easy steps to do right now to Find your Passions

What to do now

Now you need to make your own list.

1. Find an area where you already have success.

2. Why is this area a success? Use the list above for inspiration, and add any others that apply.

3. List all the things that you have done that make this area a success, as many as you can. Try for at least 10 reasons for each area of success.

Repeat for another area of success.

DOWNLOAD this worksheet to help you with this exercise

Review

Any common themes? Any things that took you by surprise? Any aha! moments? Excellent! We'll try a few other ways of tackling this problem, then put them all together and see what is revealed.