How To Do What You'd Only Dream Of

Do you think you might be in the world for a specific reason, but you just don't know what that reason is? Well, why wait another minute wondering?

Perhaps it's time to look squarely ahead and find out. You know, set your sights on mapping out exactly what you are born for.

All of us can live a life of passion and purpose, but only a percentage of us choose to. Making the choice to discover and live our purpose takes a mixture of courage and curiosity to actually grasp it!

You and millions of other deserving folks can look forward to waking up with wonder, anticipation, and excitement after practicing these 8 steps. Can you imagine what the world would be like if we were all fulfilling our life's passion, making the best use of the true talents and personal pleasures?

Now imagine starting with YOU. Here's how you begin...

(If you can fully commit to each new habit below for at least sixty days, the unbelievable will happen...your personal calling will begin to unfold naturally.)

1) Decide You Deserve. It is vital that you decide that you deserve to awaken your destiny. Repeating an "I deserve" mantra not only feels good, but it flushes out any subconscious resistance to achieving your life's purpose.

2) Surround Yourself with Great Ideas and Positive People. People are funny. Some embrace you when you announce a desire for something "more," some tell you it's impossible, and some just don't show up at all. Be smart. Move toward the embracing. Stick with patient, positive people who know that progress is in the trying and (sometimes) temporarily falling short.Do you know that the biggest indicator that you are moving forward is failure? After all, it means you are trying, and that you can brave temporary disappointments and still persevere.

3) Find Your Own Particular Talent. Make a "20 things I love to do" list. Think of what you were good at as a child. What do people say your gifts are today? Do you like to make people smile, give them hope, or help them find the resources they need? Do you like to play sports or invent games? Then think about how you can make a living at that. Perhaps you could write a book, become a travel agent, be a photographer, an inventor, a Hollywood actor, a customer service agent, a minister...Remember, you must first truly identify your talents that bring you joy, then understand that this joy is a passion placed within you so you can use it to provide a service to others.

4) Be You. The nice thing about your destiny is that it allows you to see that you're perfect just the way you are. Now that you know your gifts, wear them like a badge.

5) See the Impossible. Each person meets his or her destiny by first seeing it...and feeling it. Therefore, it is essential to visualize the life or career that you want to create. Make tangible reminders like vision boards or journals to turn to when learned doubts of the past sneak up behind you. Identify these doubts and replace them with new affirmations and grander ideas for the future. As a child, you naturally practiced experiencing your future dreams and success in your mind. Do that until it once again becomes second nature. It may seem like hard work at first, but it is a trick that works hard for you...and lasts.

6) Employ the Law of Attraction. Accept that you have everything within you to have the living you would like. And believe it. Never, ever doubt it, and as you pursue it, you will also naturally attract it.

7) Reprioritize Your Play. Would you have time to pursue your passion if you considered it play time? Pursuing your passion is hard work, but then again it's not. Many successful people will say that working toward their passion does not feel like work at all. Try this. Replace some of your passive forms of relaxation and entertainment (like watching television) with a few hours a week of actively meeting and socializing with inspiring people and attending motivating shows, movies and workshops. You'll be amazed at how much more energy you have to keep moving toward your goal. And you might make some new friends, too.

8) Ask the Experts. Meet the people who've already done it. Read their books, go to conferences and workshops, shake their hands, invite them to lunch, ask questions like "what is your life like now that you are a _______" and imagine them offering tips to help you along your path.

While our destiny doesn't typically appear in front of us suddenly, it can arrive in a reasonably short span of time. All we need to do is practice is some careful (and often prayerful) weeding of the things that have previously held us back (like the negative friends, limiting beliefs, misdirected focus referred to above.)

Life is designed to be happy, fulfilling, creative and inspiring.

So let's just go ahead and choose, at least for the next sixty days, to create something entirely wonderful using the tips listed above. (C'mon, mark your calendar and print this page. We'll do it together.)

Before we know it, we will be sixty days closer to our own personal destiny!

Yes, in two short months from now, we will have earned the smile we will wake up with, having expanded the boundaries of our old limits and having practiced the new habits that got us rolling in our new, pleasurable and more meaningful life.

Author and Empowerment Mentor Jenna Forrest created JennaForrest.com, your community portal to get empowered with others who are earning the happiness, freedom, and prosperity we all deserve.