How to find your life’s passion

For so many young people, identifying their true passion is often a tricky thing. You may choose one or the other for all the wrong reasons. For example, it’s easy to get attracted by the glitz of music and fashion and begin to think of them as worthy things to pursue for life, while in reality you’re not really cut out for those. Similarly, being tall and strong doesn’t necessarily mean that being a basketball player is the right choice for you. Or the fact that you love and care for animals is no good reason to jump to conclusion that the right calling for you is to be a vet (you like animals but perhaps you hate dissecting them on the operating table).

Your true passion may be something absolutely different. It may be something that you haven’t felt or experienced yet. It may just be waiting to be discovered, seeking your exposure.

So how do you discover or expose it? By the simple rule of exploring and experimenting different things!

The more experiences you have behind you and the more options you have before you, the better your chances of hitting upon the true love of your heart.

30-day passion hunt

Try the 30-day passion hunt. It’s an excellent way for you to not only discover your passion but also gain a wide variety of experiences that will enrich your life in many ways.

What you do is simply pick one activity (anything that catches your fancy) and follow it for a month. Follow it as if it IS your passion. Learn about it, read books and articles on it, take lessons in it, practice it, perform it, create it – do something about it for at least an hour every day. Give it as much of your free time as you possibly can. Treat it as if it is your real passion, just for 30 days.

Then, next month, move on to a new activity, a new field of interest. This way, in one year, you’ll have given yourself twelve solid new experiences, say anything ranging from web page designing to white water rafting.

But you don’t really have to stop after these twelve trials – continue the hunt into the next year. Go on until something truly opens your heart and ignites your soul. You’ll know it when you have found your true passion.

But, just in case, if you are still unsure even after three years of passion hunt, there’s no reason to despair. Just look back and see which of the ones you’ve tried gave you the most joy. Which one of them would you be willing to teach to others? Which one would you be willing to follow if you didn’t have to bother about earning money? Pick that one and follow it with all gusto.

Or maybe you’d like to take the passion hunt into the fourth year. If this is your choice, then you’ve found your passion already. Your passion is to explore, experiment and experience new things! Good for you!!