If you are “just settling,” or you feel unhappy with the direction your work or life is going, you don’t have to stay stuck. A more passionate life IS within reach. We want to help you peel back layers of self-discovery and clarity so you define what your passion is and how you want to live it – no matter your circumstances and even if you can’t quit your job right now.
No matter your goals, an online vision board may help you achieve them.
Vision boards are powerful tools for helping people visualize their ambitions.
They are collages of images and words designed to help make your goals seem more achievable.
When you have a clear picture of what you hope to achieve, your mind starts to accept your plans as reality.
This leads to greater focus, motivation, and confidence in your abilities to succeed.
Have you ever wondered, “What am I passionate about?” Have you been struggling to figure out a career or hobby that lights your fire but just can’t find it?
As frustrating as it is to search and search and not find your passion, it undermines your efforts to delay happiness until you discover it.
Enjoying life and savoring everything you are doing along the path to your passion is a valuable part of the experience.
As you become more engaged with the life you have, you’ll expand your awareness of the life you dream of living.
As you become more grateful, positive, and curious, you’ll open doorways of enlightenment that lead you to your passion.
What I’m suggesting is more than a “relax and wait” frame of mind. It’s a “relax, envision, engage, and expect” mindset.
Whether you’ve hit a creative dry spell or you’re looking for new ways to express your creative genius, you’ll enjoy the list we’ve cooked up for this article.
What can it hurt, after all, to learn about creative project ideas that could enrich your life and the lives of others?
Or maybe what you learn from one project will translate into new ideas for another.
The potential for cross-over with these creative projects is what makes them potentially life-changing.
But what makes creativity so powerful in the first place?
If you’re like most people, you might get confused about the meanings of passion and purpose.
You might get them mixed up, misaligned, or even use them interchangeably.
Both are powerful forces of nature that dictate the course of your life.
While they are related in some ways, they are quite different.
Knowing those differences will help make it easier to follow your passions and guide you toward your true life purpose.
Here we’ll define each, discuss their differences, and answer some frequently asked questions.
(Sidebar: You may want to check out this post on How To Write A Personal Mission Statement)
Your actions can exert a positive influence far into the future.
The choices that you make between now and the day that you depart this world have the power to leave a lasting legacy.
Your legacy might impact your family, your community, or even the world. Choosing to build a legacy will bring purpose to your life.
You can upgrade your motivations beyond meeting daily needs and direct your attention toward fixing a problem, helping others, or supporting your descendants.
You don’t have to be a philosopher to ponder capital T truths.
Nor do you need to crack open a dusty Socrates text to begin thinking more deeply about the world around you.
It sometimes feels like our children ask us more profound questions about existence than we ask ourselves.
If you want to get in touch with your philosophical side or your inner child, we have put together an existential questions list that you can use to spark an internal conversation or an external debate with friends.
There’s no better way to get to know yourself or someone else than to ask about the meaning of life.
Do you have a personal mission statement?
If not, you should.
Early in my career, I was inspired to create one when I worked in public relations for the JCPenney Company.
James Cash Penney, the founder of the once giant retailer, based his business philosophy on one simple personal mission statement: “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you” — the Golden Rule.
In fact, his first store was called The Golden Rule.
This mission statement permeated every aspect of how Mr. Penney ran his business.
He asked for a “fair remuneration and not all the profits the traffic will bear,” and was the first to call employees “associates,” and he treated them like family.
During the stock market crash in the 1920’s, Mr. Penney lost his personal fortune and took a loan against his life insurance in order to pay the associates’ salaries.
If it seems that life has no purpose, and you’re experiencing an existential crisis, the world can seem pretty bleak.
Feeling that life has no meaning can make you question everything about who you are or why you even exist.
Maybe you’re not quite so philosophical, but you seem to lack a guiding principle for your life. You find yourself thinking, “My life has no purpose, and I don’t know why I’m doing what I’m doing.”
Perhaps your job has grown stale, or you don’t know if you’re in the right career at all.
Are you spending time with the right people?
Living up to your potential?
Going in the right direction?
These questions feel impossible to answer when you have no idea what drives you and have no purpose guiding your next move.