Uncover Your Spark: Guiding Questions to Find Your Passion
If you are feeling a little stuck in discovering your passion in life, you are not alone. So many people are on this journey of self-discovery, some may find it easy, and others might find it a bit more challenging to recognise what their true passion is?
The great news is that there are processes to help you in identifying what you love, what drives you and what your true-life passion is. One of the approaches is to ask yourself some questions and reflect, then put your results all together.
Discovering Your Passion: Example Questions
Grab a piece of paper, write down the questions, really think about the answers, if the answers do not come to you immediately, come back to them later.
This process might take a day, it might take a month, either way you will start to discover more about yourself, which is always wonderful.
The more we understand ourselves, the more we can understand others and work towards building strong relationships in life. Chances are you shall understand what it is that you love or move closer to that understanding of what ignites your very being!
Add more to the list if you feel they will help you in your discovery.
- What do you do outside of work? This should give you a good insight of what your hobbies and interests are.
- What is the one thing you do whenever you get the chance? This will identify those things that you feel more passionate about.
- What makes you feel excited? This is normally associated with those things that you are good at. Mainly your talents and your gifts.
- What makes you feel more confident? You may find that talking, writing, singing or art makes you feel this way. Again, these are things that you know you are good at; therefore you feel confident. You don’t have to think twice about doing them.
- What would you do if you weren’t earning money from it? Again, this signifies your passions. You are not in it for the money, you truly love doing it and just want to spend your spare time enjoying yourself with this task.
- What one thing or item would you like to change in the world? Your answer here could be a multitude of things including providing better help to underprivileged children or to help the elderly, or animals in shelters.
- What do you do in your spare time? You probably spend time developing one of your hobbies or talents without even realising how much you invest in them. You may spend this time writing, creating, or exercising or practicing a craft.
- What makes you smile? All those things that make you smile are things that you love and enjoy doing. Of course, it does not need to be something physical you can touch. It could be spending time with your family or friends or completing projects or similar things that put a smile on your face.
Go through this list and start writing down your answers. From here you want to see if there is one thing that gets repeated, again and again. If so, chances are that this is your passion. That one thing that you love to do or want to do whenever you can.
Your next step is to simply start making time for it, and yes you can if you genuinely want to. You may even be able to turn this passion into your main occupation over time.
Live in passion, light and love. Stay awesome x
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