| "If there is no passion in your life, then have you ever | | | | "If you enjoy the process, it's your dream. If you are |
| lived?"-T. Alan Armstrong | | | | enduring it, desperate for the result, it's somebody |
| "Nothing great in the world has ever being | | | | else's dream."-Salma Hayek |
| accomplished without passion." -Georg Wilhelm | | | | In other words, if you are enjoying the journey, |
| Friedrich Hegel | | | | chances are it is your dream. But if you are just putting |
| Passion is the driving force behind a dream life. A | | | | up with it -or worse, suffering from it- it is not. You are |
| dream life is not a destination but a journey fueled by | | | | only doing it for a result that you expect, but you are |
| passion. How do you find your passion in life? How do | | | | not really happy in the process. You have to realize |
| you know if what you are doing is your passion? Here | | | | that, as April Garrity points out, "the true measure of |
| are some tips:o It gives sense to your life.o It is | | | | success is the joy you feel" doing something. |
| something you enjoy doing.o You enjoy doing it even if | | | | The second piece of advice is Derek Sivers' |
| you are alone. You can share it with the world, but you | | | | observation that "passion" or "purpose" sound to many |
| enjoy doing it also when you are alone.o When you | | | | like huge overwhelming things, which is true. |
| are immersed in it, you do not want to be interrupted. | | | | So you should give yourself the opportunity to find and |
| You want to keep doing it, not merely because you | | | | live your passion on a day-to-day or even moment to |
| want to finish something to meet a deadline, but mainly | | | | moment level. Do not attach to the words "dream life", |
| because you are having pleasure doing it.o It does not | | | | "passion" or "unique life" the sine qua non condition that |
| feel like work.o It is fun.o It comes naturally to you. You | | | | they have to be monumental, stunning, enormous or |
| do not feel like struggling with it.o It is easy for you.o It | | | | colossal by definition. Sometimes, if something is not |
| flows from within. Inside out. Not outside in.o It gives | | | | stunning from the very beginning, people think of it as |
| you joy. It gives you pleasure.o You feel your soul | | | | not being their passion. Hence they deny themselves |
| when you do it. It gives nourishment to your soul.o You | | | | the joy of living it, and the potential to grow it. |
| feel energized when you do it and afterwards.o It | | | | Remember, a "dream life" is a journey. A journey |
| does not drain your energies.o While you are doing it, | | | | made of moments fueled and lived with passion. |
| you are not watching often the clock to see how | | | | So how do you live with passion on a moment to |
| close your lunch or dinner time is.o Experience, | | | | moment basis? |
| knowledge and technology might help you to do it | | | | Abraham Hicks beautifully gives us the answer: |
| better, but you enjoy doing it even in its rawest form. | | | | "When you feel enthusiasm to do something, it means |
| Like a famous basket ball player that still enjoys playing | | | | you've lined up the Energy, and you are being inspired |
| on the street.o You feel free doing it.o There is | | | | to take action from that point of alignment. When you |
| playfulness in it. You do not want too many rules to | | | | don't feel like doing it, don't push yourself, because your |
| suffocate this playfulness.o It works not only with | | | | effort is not worth it. But, when you line up the Energy, |
| reason. It also involves your intuition.o You do not do it | | | | the feeling of procrastination goes away"- |
| "just for the money". Sure, earning money with it feels | | | | Abraham-Hicks. |
| great and better than earning money doing something | | | | This is also called at spiritual level being in alignment. |
| else, but the first driving force is joy. Joy comes first.o | | | | Another helpful test to live your passion on a moment |
| It is not only about "doing". It is also about "being". You | | | | by moment level comes from Ayurveda. When you |
| like how you feel when you do it. You enjoy being | | | | understand the philosophy behind Ayurveda, you may |
| yourself when you do it.o It is your favorite channel of | | | | conclude, as Dr. Deepak Chopra does, that there are |
| expression.o You sincerely love doing it.o You feel | | | | three ways to assess your alignment. Chopra |
| empowered doing it.o It gives you pleasure.o You feel | | | | suggests that you ask yourself three simple questions: |
| you "belong there".o It "feels like you". | | | | Is it easy? Is it fun? Am I getting results? And if your |
| The above tips should give you enough insight to | | | | answer is "yes" to all three, it means that you are |
| identify your passion. Two additional pieces of advice | | | | "tuned in". Or, in other words, that you are aligned. |
| are in order: The first one is that you should make sure | | | | Clearly, "easy" means -again- that you are not enduring |
| that you are indeed following your own passion and | | | | it, putting up with it or suffering from it. "Fun" means |
| not someone else's. Often the lives of successful, | | | | that you are enjoying it, that it is inspiring you, which |
| happy and wise people are a source of inspiration for | | | | "ights your fire" or sums up your energy. And "getting |
| many, but one has to realize that they arrived to a | | | | results" seems to me self explanatory. It might mean |
| happy or exemplary life precisely because of THEIR | | | | positive results in any area of you life, be it your health, |
| passion. | | | | spirituality (connection to the divine), the broadening of |
| "Most people are other people. Their thoughts are | | | | your vision, the expression of your freedom, the |
| someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry..."-Oscar | | | | deepening of your loving relationships, your real |
| Wilde | | | | empowerment, your pleasure or your prosperity. |
| So how do you know if some kind of life is YOUR | | | | "Follow your passion, and success will follow you. |
| unique life, your passion, your personal dream? | | | | |