We hear that the real joy and feeling of content comes when we are headed towards passion and purpose. For most people life is just about running in the race of survival, working day in and day out in order to pay the bills. But deep down we all know that nothing in this world is more satisfying and fulfilling than living with a purpose.
What is Passion?
Passion could be anything that would enable you to express your emotions, motivate you, and make you feel great. More often than not it is connected with your skill and abilities, desires, and talent. It is something that you love and are able to accomplish without feeling any level of stress or compulsion. Having a passion for something pushes you to the limits, enables you to master, and consequently improves productivity. You can use your passion to gain the strength to challenge the opposition in your life and cross the hurdles that prevent you from becoming successful.
What is Purpose?
The purpose is the true reason for doing what you do in life. It is the motivation for all the things you do, all the pursuits. Often looked as the reason behind your background, life story, and even the things that are ahead of you. It gives life the direction and keeps you on track. It helps you answer some critical questions like, why you are and what you are meant to do. Your life ceases to be an experiment, rather your life becomes much more meaningful.
How to connect Purpose and Passion?
We often see people facing a challenge in connecting purpose and passion and those who fail to join the two together often experience burnout. Whenever they face a major life crisis, it just shakes them. But when your passion and purpose are connected, you will see extraordinary results.
For example, imagine you have to light a fire. Passion is the fuel that you need to make the fire possible, and purpose is the reason why you need to kindle the fire in the first place. When you have the fuel and the reason to light the fire, it enables you to channelize your entire energy. If you want to join your passion with purpose, the following are suggestions that you should totally consider:
1. Evaluate your life
Know for a fact that you can go back to the examining phase of your life whenever you want to. You can go back and evaluate your journey and the choices you made. It is easy to say than done, but it requires you to focus. It may require you to retreat from your schedule to space where you can exclusively concentrate on the subject. You can integrate it with your next holiday. You may seek help from the books that are out there to help you realize your passion and purpose.
2. Show conviction
Learn to live each and every day of your life with conviction. It should be reflected in all the things that you do from the books you read, how you spend time, kind of things you talk about. Begin to see your life through the new lens of purpose and passion.
3. Channel your passion in the right direction
If you have evaluated your purpose and passion, it is time you redirect your passion for the very purpose. There are chances that you have been draining your energy in the wrong direction so far. Now that you have figured out the purpose you can channel your energies and desires towards conviction.
4. Embrace new Opportunities
There are high chances that what you are currently involved in, does not add up to your true passion and purpose. It might be the job you chose or worked hard for, or probably you have spent years building. You may not be quitting the things you are doing, but look at the opportunities around and embrace it.
5. Make adjustments
You will have to make some major adjustments to make space for the things that give you purpose and for you to follow a passion. It can potentially affect your career path or other things that you are involved in. The truth is that there is no fixed price that you will have to pay in order to truly achieve the life you deserve. Even if it takes you to break the so-called “system” it is worth it if you know that it would take you to the place you belong.