Posted under Career Planning on July 23rd, 2007
Is your job just that – a job? Or, is it something that allows you to follow one of your passions in life? Unfortunately some people settle for a job for any number of reasons without ever identifying and exploring the possibilities.
Have you been searching to make a change, but haven’t quite found anything that engages you? A book called The Passion Test by Janet and Chris Attwood offers tools to help you identify your passions and develop the life blueprint needed to live them to the fullest. That includes creating a passion-driven career.
“The Passion Test” is an easy read. The first section helps you discover your passions and identifies strategies you can use to live out those passions. The second section contains interviews from several leaders in the self-help/personal development field such as Debbie Ford, Dr. Dennis Waitley, and Stephen M.R. Covey (son of author Steven Covey).
After identifying your passions, the next step is to develop strategies and motivators to follow them. The authors provide several tools to help you with this. These include:
- List your passions on index cards and strategically placing them in your home and office. They constantly remind you of the passions you identified and help keep you focused.
- Develop “markers” to identify when you are living out your passions.
- Create “Passion Pages.” This involves visualizing living out your passions and then writing the visualization on paper.
Identifying your passions is one of the keys to living a fulfilling life. Too many people do not invest the time needed to discover what truly excites them in life. The result? Unhappy people. Or worse, people who are content just settling or getting by.
Posted by Louise Garver
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