How to Find Your Passions - Why You Love what you Love

How do you find your passion - part 10

What do you love to do and what do you really do?

So, in the last 2 sections, you've made lists or mind maps of what you CHOOSE to spend your time on and what you LOVE.

You used these questions as a framework for bringing to light what you love:

What do you choose to do with your free time?

When you have discretionary time, what activity gets your vote?

What activities bring you joy?

What's your favourite part of each day?

Which things are you pulled by love to do, not pushed by force?

Now we are going to look at WHY?

Why do you love what you love?

You need to be quite specific here, what is it about the activity that brings you joy?

So for example, I love to cross stitch. For me, it is the ability to let my mind idle while I do it and think about my dreams and ideas in an unforced way. the whole restfulness of it all. Its also about the detail and following a pattern, and using my hands to do something. But it might be being creative and making up a new pattern for someone else. Or creating a useful something for another person. Same activity, different motivations.

The next step

What to do now

1. Take your list of what you love to do and what you actually do from the previous exercises.

2. Write all the 'whats' down the left hand side of a page.

3. On the right hand side of your page, for each item, write out the 'whys', WHY this thing brings you happiness and that soulfully fulfilling feeling. There might be one, or maybe several. Put them all down.