| “If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you.” –Alan Armstrong |
Do you wake up every morning dreading your day, feeling like you are just going through the motions, like it is yet one more uneventful day of going to work, picking the kids up from school, coming home to make dinner and back at it once again tomorrow? It doesn’t have to be this way!
We tend to get into a routine that we are too scared to break no matter how bored or unhappy it might make us. We like the feeling of security our 9-5 job may bring, or have a fear of what actually chasing our dream might entail (failure, judgment, the unknown). But if you are not passionate about the life you are living, then are you really living?!
I challenge you today to find your passion. Maybe you will realize that what you are already doing is your passion but you just needed that reminder or maybe you are like me and have to evaluate your passion every couple of years because with time you change. Let’s find our passion together and live our lives out loud with purpose.
Start by writing a list of what it is you love to do, what makes you happy and lights your soul on fire?
It can be the most random, hodge podge of a list but get it all down. What is it that makes you, you. Have an open mind, do not start limiting yourself thinking about which of your passions could be a career. If you like walking dogs, write it down. If you like drinking wine, write it down. No passion is too big or too small. Believe me, when I wrote down my list I struggled for months at how BIG my passion was and how possibly could I ever make that into a career? But here I am living my passion. What seemed big at the time is how I got to you today so I am SO glad I wrote it down on that list!
Go and live out this list.
Make time to go and do everything you have written down on this list. Include your family, make them fun date ideas, or family outings. But go do them and allow your life to be transformed. The people around you might see the change that that specific passion brings out in you and want to do it with you more. Many times we think because of a job we can’t live out our passion or we are too busy. But these are all excuses! The pressure of making your passion into a career is not why you shouldn’t still live it out. If you can turn it into a career wonderful! If not, don’t brush it off to the side, still live it out on weeknights and weekends!
Think about how you can make it into a career or just how you can incorporate it into your everyday life.
When we get married, become parents or even just start dating someone we forget how to put ourselves first. What we once enjoyed and did everyday for ourselves turns into what our significant other loves to do or helping our kids chase their dreams. BUT this can be so dangerous and is often why people feel as if they have lost their identity. Now I am not saying do only what you love to do because it is equally as important to be a part of what your kids and spouse are passionate about but do not forget about yourself. If you can, make your passion into a career. If not because you do enjoy your job or because you financially just cannot afford to up and leave, then find a way to incorporate your passion into your everyday life.
Now grab a glass of wine or a coffee and go write that list!