4 Ways to Find Your True Life’s Passion
Feeling a little stuck? Not sure what's exciting in life? Just letting the days pass you by? Time to flip the coin.
Maybe you need some help to tap into your intuition and free your creative spirit within. It's never too late to realize your hidden abilities. Age is not a restriction.
“When you fight yourself to discover the real you, there is only one winner.” (Stephen Richards)
1). What is Passion:
“A sense of belonging that makes you feel alive”. Passion is a spark, energy that comes from focusing on what excites you.
You don’t need any reminder or any alarm clock.
Benefits in this new Journey?
This is a chance to reconnect with your creativity and passion. It will be a transformation journey.
You will discover new possibilities, self-knowledge, and optimistic ways to look at things and people.
Your passion enlightens a spark in your personality. What matters is to use that energy in the right direction.
This article is all about self-realization, drafting your life, and make it happen.
Points to Remember:
- Be very specific and clear.
- Don’t get confused with the questions related to your life. Who you are? and What you want from life not what life wants from you?
- Don’t compare yourself with others. Do you feel alive, energetic enthusiastic, while doing something which you love doing?
We can take back our power to create abundance in our lives. So, what you are waiting for?
Exercise:
Q: YOU KNOW YOUR BOUNDARIES, Know what you like/don’t like, what you want/don’t want to do, and what lines you don’t want to cross.
Q: Write the name of the activities you enjoy doing every day.
Q: What drives you? Name that driving force.
2). From Talent to Passion:
Personal Clarity:
- You will identify and clarify what you want from your life.
- Self-discovery to access insight and self-knowledge.
- You will explore your hidden abilities and utilize your talent in the right path.
Talent:
•Talent refers to an inborn and the special ability of a person to do something.
•Talent is a God-gifted ability.
•Talent is hidden, that is why it needs recognition at the right time to work more efficiently.
•Coaching may prove helpful in getting the fruitful/ best results out of someone.
Talent is something you have to find yourself.
If you are good in reading and writing poems you can be an outstanding writer as Allama Iqbal.
If you think you are a passionate layer, follow the marks of Quaid-e-Azam.
If you are good at computers you can be a successful person like Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerburg.
Talent needs direction. This direction is always given to those who urge to find their passion.
Benefits of Pure Talent:
• You own special qualities and talents within you.
•Pure Talent gives you the motivation to move on.
•Pure Talent is not hidden.
•Pure talent naturally gives depth and you will start building a strong relationship with people.
•Pure Talent gives Confidence.
•Your greatest talents hold the key to high achievement, success, and progress at levels of personal excellence.
Examples of Talent:
Detailed oriented: If you are planning and managing everything in a systematic manner, it will help you to achieve your goals in a short period of time.
A constant need for achievement: A constant reminder to achieve what you have dreamed of will help you to reach your destination.
Orderly and planned: Don't work out randomly. Try to adopt time management in organizing your tasks.
Need for precision: A picture with big strokes doesn't look good always. You have to work on minute details to get the perfect results.
Sense emotions of people around you: A great leader is the one who understands the problems of others. We are the people full of emotions. So respect everyone.
Easily understand complex issues: Life will sometimes get you down but how you manage to face all those obstructions and accept challenges is up to you.
You see potential in others: You are so talented if you have the ability to see the spark in others and utilize that energy in a specialized field.
Need to include others(teamwork): You are careful, vigilant, and loves to work as a good team member or good team leader will bring out extraordinary results.
Exercise:
Q: What are YOUR strengths. Name any five.
Q: What do you think about YOUR strengths?
Q: How does this apply in YOUR daily life?
3). Strength and Theme of Talent:
A Strength is the ability to provide consistent, near-perfect performance in a given activity.
Talents are naturally recurring patterns of thought, feeling, or behavior that can be productively applied.
Strength Goals:
Ways to Develop Your Unique Strengths:
Strength Formula:
Exercise:
Q: What are YOUR strengths. Name any five.
Q: What do you think about YOUR strengths?
Q: How does this apply in YOUR daily life?
4). Clifton StrengthsFinder:
The CliftonStrengths assessment uncovers which talents you rely on to build relationships, think strategically, execute plans and influence others to accomplish goals.
When you know your unique set of these talents, you're empowered to succeed by doing what you naturally do best. Every. Single. Day.
A Brief History Of The Clifton StrengthsFinder:
The Clifton StrengthsFinder assessment was created under the leadership of educational psychologist Donald Clifton. He wanted to identify the skills of the best of the best of the best and to capitalize on them.
StrengthsFinder, a revolutionary tool was first introduced to the world in 2001 with the bestselling book, Now Discover Your Strengths.
•The Clifton StrengthsFinder measures the presence of talents in 34 general areas referred to as "themes." Talents are ways in which we naturally think, feel, and behave as unique individuals, and they serve as the foundation of strengths development.
•Upon completing the Clifton StrengthsFinder, you will receive your reports with information about your themes. You then have the opportunity to delve into those themes to discover your greatest talents. The Clifton StrengthsFinder and accompanying reports were designed to help you learn about and build upon your greatest talents in order to create strengths that will enhance all aspects of your life. (data is taken from https://www.gallupstrengthscenter.com/)
Examples of Strength:
Communicating: Communication skills
Learning agility: Quick learner
Critical thinking: Decision-making skills
Coaching people: Teaching
Positive Attitude: Creating a positive work environment
Creative Ideas: Creativity.
Goal-oriented: Result achiever, meeting deadlines
Discipline: Orderly Manners everything
People-oriented: Customer service skills
Exercise:
Q: How much time do you invest in grooming your strengths?
Q: What specific strength of yours gives you a higher level of excellence?
Sara Shahid.
Civil Engineer.