How to Recharge Your Life with the Source for Continuous Motivation

Passion is an essential ingredient for success.  In the midst of the busyness of life and the many activities that clutter our lives, we need to dig deep to re-discover those things that inspire us.

Life is too short to live all stressed out without doing the things you love the most.

Here are a few tips to help you re-discover your passions.

Thomas Anderson, in his book titled Becoming a Millionaire God’s Way, explains: “Passion is directly related to the thoughts and intents of the heart.” (Faith Words, 2008, page 39). When it comes to business, Donald Trump suggests, “Don’t think about how you can make money.  Instead think about what you can produce or what service you can offer that is valuable and useful to people and to your community.” (Donald Trump, Think Big, Collins Business, 2007, page 43).

To discover your passions, you may want to start by asking yourself these questions:

• What motivates me?
• What things make me smile?
• What do I enjoy reading and why?
• Who do I enjoy listening to and why?
• Who are my heroes in my life and why?
• What do I know about the great achievers?
• Have I written down my lifetime dreams and goals?
• What are three things that I want to accomplish before I die?
• What are three things that I want to accomplish this year?
• What am I doing this month, this week, today towards the achievement of my lifetime goals?
• Do I clearly know my gifts, natural talents and abilities?
• What am I doing to perfect my gifting and talents?
• What am I doing to develop my personal growth?
• Who are the people I currently admire and what is it about them that capture my attention?
• Who are my mentors and why?
• What books inspire me the most?
• What are three things I need to improve in the next three months?
• What do I want to accomplish in the next month?  Three months?  Six months?  Twelve months?
• What do my friends and co-workers say about me?
• What attributes describe me?
• If I were to mentor a group of people, who would they be and why?
• If I were to go on vacation, where would I choose to go and why?
• If I were to go into a new venture, what would I do and why?
• If money was no limitation, what career or business would I like to be involved in and why?

Your answers to these questions could help clarify your passions.  You may find it helpful to ask a few of your friends to give you a list of the attributes they see in you.  You may find that some of the things they identify in you, you may have identified already in your personal analysis. This will serve as confirmation and encouragement to focus your attention in working on your strengths.

The things that you find similar in both your personal research coupled with your feedback you get from others will solidify your confidence and lead you to embrace your unique characteristics.

Passion gives you focus. When you concentrate all your efforts into on specific area, or a small group of related areas of expertise, the results are more effective and satisfying.

It is advisable for one to know a little about several things but to be an expert in one area.  When you focus on developing and becoming an expert in one area, you position yourself as an expert to a group of people that will listen to you and be willing to buy from you the solution you offer them.

Passion is energy. The more you focus on growing in the areas that motivate and inspire you, the more effective, productive and vibrant your life will be!