Find Your Passion – 6 Tips to Discovering What Ignites Your Fire

Written by Mark Foo - 14 Comments
Categories: self improvement

When you decide to find your passion, you’re making an important commitment to yourself. You’re saying that you’re a top priority and you’ll be finding the things in life that you truly enjoy. When you have a true passion for life you never feel like life is a chore. Your whole attitude and personality may even shift for the better.

If you want to love life, you need to pursue your passions. Don’t waste anymore time and get going!

Try some of the items on this list to light your fire:

  1. Start with Your Talents. Everyone has a special talent or hobby. You don’t have to be the best at something, just come up with a subject that you enjoy. Pick something that always makes you happy. Pick an activity that always makes you lose track of time. You can then decide to take it one step further to make it your passion. Can you write a book on the subject? Can you become an expert? Can you make a career out of it? Ask yourself these important questions.
  2. Be Open to New Experiences. Most people enjoy the comfort of living their lives in a similar fashion from day to day. Though if you haven’t yet discovered your passion for life yet, it probably isn’t going to just fall in your lap. You need to be open to new experiences because you never know where life will take you. Haven’t you ever gone into an experience with negative expectations only to discover that everything turned out quite the opposite? What if you tried new and exciting things every single day? *I have a good friend that used to be a wild twenty-something who fell in love with a girl. He wanted to impress her by going to a yoga class even though he had no interest in the subject. To make a long story short, the relationship didn’t last but he is now employed as a yoga instructor!
  3. Communicate With People in Your Field. If you’re still in the brainstorming phase of finding your life’s passion and you don’t know whether or not you’d truly enjoy something, be prepared to ask questions. When you take the time to communicate with others you can learn a lot. Ask people who share your interests about their daily lives. Ask any question that you want! It may help you make up your mind.
  4. Practice and Research. You don’t need to find your passion overnight. Although it does help if you find that you’re loving life in the process. It probably means that you’re on the right track. Practice skills that develop your passions and see if you can get yourself to branch on from an amateur level. Research the topics you enjoy in anyway you can like reading books or surfing the internet.
  5. Face Your Fears You may not think that exploring your fears is a way to find your passion for life, but it can be. Fear is seen as a negative emotion, but it’s a strong emotion just like passion. Sometimes you’ll fear something because it’s something you truly care about. Maybe you fear failure in a subject that you always wanted to pursue. Work on exploring and dealing with your fears which may lead you right into your passions.
  6. Never Give Up. The path to your passions is hardly ever easy; many people will tell you that they nearly gave up when they were dealing with the same subject. In order to find your passion, you need to dig down deep and tell yourself that you’ll stop at nothing. You need to believe in yourself because you truly never know what tomorrow will bring.


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  • http://go.officearrow.com/home Lauren

    Great list! I would also add, “Don’t be afraid to work hard.” You could have to go back to school which requires time, money, and dedication. You could also start out small, working on something you’re passionate about part-time while managing your current job. Don’t be afraid to work hard for what makes you happy!

  • http://qupfromtheashes.blogspot.com/ Quinn

    The power of finding your passion is mentioned time and time again but is still not talked about enough. I think the most important point you make is not to give up, we only are defeated when stop trying to succeed.

  • http://www.adventuresofthefearless.com jon | adventures of the fearless

    Another one is

    Look at the things that you do where you lose track of time, they tend to be an good indication of what you enjoy doing.

  • http://daretoexpress.com Brett – DareToExpress.com

    Tip #7: Cut out things that you know will never be your passion. This means watching TV and other things that add no value to your life. When you’re going through the process of finding your passion, you need to spend as much time as possible experimenting and just plain ol’ doing things. That means no TV, no siesta, no sports, no wasting time on the internet. Just going out and doing stuff is the best.

  • http://www.motivatedsista.com Prosechild

    For me, I definitely had to get over my fears. It was more of me getting to the point where I didn’t care what other people thought and learning how to tune out unsolicited advice about what I should do. I think most of us intuitively know what our passion is, but we get stuck in the idea of what we ‘should’ be doing, etc.

  • Pol

    sleeping?

  • http://www.personal-success-factors.com Steve-Success Factors

    As a therapist, I often work with people who have such difficulty tapping into what it is that they want to do with their lives. Thanks for sharing such practical strategies! There’s something in here for all of us!

  • http://www.stress-relief-tools.com Simona

    People who are passionate about what they do, cope better with stressful events in their lives. Having a passion is so important. Great list for helping people to find the fire in their belly! Thank you.

  • http://www.LittleLessTalk.com Randy Cassidy

    Great Article! Thanks for the suggestions. It’s funny how many different approaches can get you to the same result. One of my favorite expressions is Just do Something…

    I was only recently able to build a clearer picture of what exactly I wanted to do with my Life. Over the past ten years I have had some strong glimpses as to what fulfills me, but I hadn’t yet found how to put those glimpses into my daily activities. That picture is becoming clearer and I am finding myself ignited again. I am beginning to put together the milestones of my journey in the hopes that I can inspire others to find their passion.

    Thanks so much for the practical direction!

  • http://www.pharmacytechnicianblog.com/ pharmacy technician

    Amazing as always

  • http://www.SelfHelpFriend.com SallyBeam | Self Help Friend

    “Pick an activity that always makes you lose track of time”. This idea is true for me. And also wanna add up “Listen to your inner voice”.

  • http://dropshippingsuccess.com DropShip

    Great list!

    I think that number five is probably the most important. It’s all about getting out and challenging your comfort zone constantly. It’s the best way for anyone to grow as a person.

  • conception

    Grand merci pour ce papier, le contenu m’a réellement beaucoup interessé. Grace à cet écrit j’ai bigrement bien appris des nouvelles choses que je ne savais pas.

  • http://google.com tashema

    This website was very helpful even though most things are easier said than done