Find What You Love
5 Tips to Uncover Your Passion Quickly and Easily
Thibaut Meurisse
Introduction
Do you wake up each day ready to fulfill your mission or do you prepare to head for a soul-crushing job you cant wait to retire from?
A little over a year ago, as Im writing this, I was sitting in an office staring at a monitor wondering what I was doing there. At the end of the week, when I looked back and tried to determine what I had accomplished, I couldnt come up with anything significant.
What the heck had I done during that week?
Not only was I rather incompetent at what I was doing, but I couldnt find any meaning in it. I certainly couldnt imagine myself staying in the same situation for the next three decades.
Something had to change.
While working full-time, I used my mornings, evenings and weekends to build my online business. During this time, I learned the difference between doing something I hated, and I wasnt very good at, and doing something I was passionate about.
It was like the difference between night and day.
This is when I truly realized how important it is for people to know their strengths, talents and values and, even more importantly, to craft a compelling vision for the future that aligned with these capabilities and standards.
Sadly, too many people will never play their music to the world. They will die with the music still buried inside them, only scratching the surface of what theyre truly capable of achieving. They will never identify their strengths and use them to design a meaningful life they genuinely enjoy.
Now, is this how life is supposed to be? Are we doomed to repeat the same old routine every day because its what weve been told to do?
I believe we came to earth to express ourselves to the fullest. Finding our passion is choosing to express ourselves to the world rather than hiding the beauty of who we really are because of fear.
While a job comes with its TGIFs, depressing Monday mornings and long-awaited vacations, an exciting career doesnt. Thats exactly the type of career I want you to designa career and life you love and dont need vacations from!
Consider the following questions:
If retirement didnt exist and you had to work until the day you die, would you still be doing what youre doing right now?
If not, what would you be doing instead?
Why wait until retirement to finally enjoy your life? What if you dont survive until retirement? In truth, many people wont. And what if retirement is not the panacea you thought it would be?
Instead of gearing your working life toward a long-awaited retirement, why not act as if retirement didnt exist and live your life accordingly? Why not make a commitment to design a meaningful life and a career you enjoy right now ?
My goal in this book is to help you find your passion and utilize your talents, not only for the greater good but also because it will make you happier!
I want to help you find career you never want to retire from because you love it so much.
Now, lets have a look at five powerful tips that will allow you to discover your passion and, ultimately, design a career and life you love.
Are you up for it?
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Tip #1 - Identify your strengths
This might sound obvious, but you would be surprised by the number of people who dont know their strengths.
Knowing your natural strengths is important as it will help you uncover your passion and identify what you were meant to do with your life. Below are a few questions to help you do that:
1. What comes easily to you?
Have you ever wondered why others cant do some of the things you find easy to do? Perhaps, this is because these things are easy to you , but not to them.
Have you ever received compliments while thinking what you did was no big deal? Maybe, you even thought that anybody could have done the same thing.
Wrong! This is so often not the case.
I encourage you to identify things you can do almost effortlessly. Avoid dismissing anything. Often, the things you find easy to do are where your natural strengths lie. Youre just not aware of it because it sounds too simple. In fact, you could be a few seemingly insignificant strengths away from transforming your life.
So, what are your unique strengths?
Is it your ability to put things together? Your boundless creativity? Your insatiable desire to learn? Your ability to listen to people? Your attention to detail?
Action step
Take the following question very seriously:
What skills come so easily to me that I genuinely cant understand whats the big deal about it?
Answering this question will give you powerful insight. Although you might not come up with answers right away, keep the question in the back of your mind.
2. What people around think youre good at?
Looking at yourself objectively can be difficult since you have blind spots that may prevent you from identifying your strengths.
If you cant figure out what your strengths are, why not ask people who know you?
Ask your family, friends or work colleagues to tell you what they think your strengths are. You might be surprised by their answers. Again, dont dismiss anything. If you catch yourself thinking, Cant anybody else do that? you might be onto something.
Action step
Send the following email to family members, friends and/or colleagues of your choice. Feel free to use the following template or to create your own:
Hi_____,
I hope youre doing well.
Im trying to identify my strengths so I can leverage them to design a more fulfilling career. I really need outside perspectives on what you consider I am really good at.
Id really appreciate if you could provide me with honest feedback and give me a list of the strengths you think I have.
Please dont be afraid to tell me anything that comes to mind.
Thanks so much for your support.
Warm regards,
3. What do you enjoy doing?
What do you enjoy doing the most? When are you the happiest?
To help you find out the things you love to do and connect them with a potential passion, complete the following exercise.
Action step
Write down twenty things you love to do. Again, dont dismiss anything. Write down anything that comes to mind even if it doesnt seem relevant.
