How to Find Your Passion

Passion is an inner feeling. It has no effect from any external forces. To find that passion all that you need to do is look around. Where is it that you have to look? In God's world. It is everywhere. In the trees, flowers, and birds in the sky.

What do I mean by that? A friend of mine once told me that you could get passionate about a corn cob if you thought about it long enough. The same holds true with God's world. Just think, if one person can get passionate about, oh say, flying with the birds. Oh yeah someone did. The Wright Brothers. See they had a passion. To fly with the birds.

Okay let's try another one. Let's pretend that it is the year 1796. When you walk into the door of your house what is the first thing that you do? Well turn on the lights, right. Oh yeah, the electric light hasn't been invented yet. So some years later, Thomas Edison had a passion. And guess what? No we do turn on the lights.

If one person can generate the power to have a passion. Why can't we all. The reason we don't is desire. Too many of us in today's society have been raised with an attitude of complacency. They don't want to rock the boat. They want everyone to don't worry be happy. Let's all get along, is their motto.

But feeling that way means that you just don't go home and turn on the lights but you also need to know what is on television for the night. Then you can hide your fears and feelings in the lives of those people in the sitcom, or the new drama. But, does that get you anywhere in life, or does it just get you to tomorrow. And another bad day at work.

Or, do you get out of the house and search for that thing, that something, that desire that you have to make more of your life? What do you do when you get out of the house? Go join a group of like minded people that are maybe also looking for that ultimate passion. Maybe go to the local high school sports events. Or the area symphony. Just look around. In our city there is an event going on every weekend in the summer. Surprising enough they are almost all based around some food. And you wonder why people are overweight.

So, while at these functions get to know some of the people. Maybe volunteer to help next year. Maybe that is your passion to help people?

Then once you find that passion. Pursue it. If it is to travel the world, then get pictures and brochures of the places that you would like to see. Put the pictures up around the house where you can see them all the time. Think about them always. Use your senses. Go smell them, touch them, listen to them, taste them, and look at them. The more this is done the stronger that passion becomes real.

The mind is a strange thing. It can not determine what is real and imagined. So if you are constantly using your senses to affirm that passion, the mind goes, "Wait a minute, I don't have that." Then you see it again and the mind thinks, "Well maybe I do. Let's go put it in the garage." After a while when you get into that rusted out pickup truck you see yourself driving that BMW that you want so much. Then the mind thinks, "Boy this is great. I love my new BMW." Zoom, zoom, zoom.

To help you find this passion find yourself a partner. Be it your spouse, a good friend, a mentor, and go out together. Doing this will set the idea, the passion in the minds eye. But always be looking at those things that really get you excited.

There is a movie on the internet called, "The Secret" at http://thesecret.tv/index.html. In this movie they describe the how when a person professes something continuously that the universe aligns itself to make that profession come true. So keep doing what you are doing and never quit.