how to find your passion and live up to that.

1) Asking The Right Questions

To find your passion, you need to ask yourself the right questions first. You can make use of the 5 W’s(What, Who, Where, Why, When) and one H (How) which is a commonly used method for information gathering.

I have replaced “When” with one more “What”, as I feel that one more “What” question might be more useful.

You can ask these questions to yourself to find your passion:

• What do I enjoy doing the most?  - Is there anything that you are already doing, or have done in the past that you really enjoy doing?

• Who do I want to be? – What kind of person would you like to become? Would your passion help transform you to your ideal character in the process?

• What do I want to achieve in my life? – Do you want to become successful, rich, happy, or simply content with your life? Would your passion help you achieve what you desire?

• Where would I like to be at? – Would you like to be following your passion in a specific country and place, or travel around the world doing it?

• Why would I want to do it? – What would come out of doing it? Will doing it lead to improve yourself, make you more money, or make you a happier person?

• How can I make it happen? – What kind of plans would you need to make to be able to follow your passion? Will you need to make money or find more time to do it?

The first four W’s might help you identify some ideas that you are positive about following. The last two questions involving the “Why” and “How” are more about trying to realistically find some ways to make them happen. Write down your ideas on a piece of paper, or in a word processor and see what you get.

Writing your thoughts and ideas has a powerful effect, so you might want to literally write them down instead of typing them.

2) Contacting your inner child

We might need to go back, at an earlier time of our life, when worries didn’t cloud our thoughts. Going back to your childhood and reminiscing what you were passionate about at that time might help bring to the surface unconscious desires that you would still like to see come to life today.

Go back to a time, before you were socially conditioned to limit yourself and your abilities. At that time, everything seemed possible, even the most absurd things. While those absurd things might not appear to be possible now, chances are, if you slightly modify them in a way, they can become possible and something to strive for.

3) Fast forward to the future

To evaluate whether something is right for you, you can use the creative visualization technique to see whether your future self would be content doing what you want to do now.

You simply relax, close your eyes and see, hear and feel if you would be enjoying doing what you have chosen, 10 years from now. If the thoughts aren’t so appealing, then perhaps you might want to find another passion to pursue.

4) Making Money From Your Passion

Finding your passion is great, but what if you don’t have the resources to go for it? The most important resources are time and money. Our usual excuses consist of not having the time to try something new and not having enough money to cast everything aside to give it a shot.

The timing will never be perfect and we will never have everything ready before starting, so we might as well make a good plan and try to execute it now. There is always the potential to make money from your passion. Whether it’s teaching it to someone else, or writing about it on the Internet and monetizing it in a way, when we have a true passion for what we are doing, the gates of creativity open wide and solutions appear.