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How to Find Your Passion and Make It Your Career: by Nicholas Powell, March 7 th , 2007
Some people come across difficulties in finding their passion and many more have trouble living their passion as a career. Let us start by defining passion so we can lay a foundation. The way I define the term passion is something in which I enjoy doing, something I can do all day long and continuously find joyfulness from it. Yet it is not the act of doing it that allows me to find joy in it because just thinking about it can produce feelings of joy.
Defining passion in this simplistic way opens up more then one passion for each person since individually everyone can name at least two things in which he or she enjoys doing to the extent of defining passion in this way. It can be something as simple as reading stories, meditating, helping people, playing an instrument, or art EST… It does not matter what it is as long as you define it as joyful even when thinking about it. Now the way to narrow the opinions down is to understand that passion is a moment-to-moment thing. In any given moment, one passion will always feel stronger then any other passion.
For example, one of my passions is writing articles that I feel will help millions of people, yet in some moments, I feel a stronger urge to go bowling, which is another passion of mine, or watch an empowering movie otherwise read an inspiring article. Every moment is different and every moment I feel the push to pursue something in the moment that excites me more then any other joy out of all the passions I can think of in any given moment. This is the true meaning of living in the moment and is important especially if you desire the universe (life or reality if you prefer) to support you in living your passion.
The Universe Always Supports
         The first thing to understand about this infinite universe is that it always supports everybody in everything, no matter what and does so with unconditional support. What that means is the universe does not care if you make the conditions in your life hard on yourself or easy on yourself since the universe is neutral and does not know the difference. The universe will always give you exactly what you want in any moment as that is the design it was given. The only reason we do not get what we think we are choosing is because of the definitions or conditions we put on things. Let me explain things this way. Our bodies are set-up in such a biochemical way that we automatically move away from pain and towards pleasure. Now pain and pleasure is a very subjective point of view and certainly, the definitions (beliefs) you put on these things will determine your outcome. For example, if you are experiencing a lack of money you may feel that the universe, life, or reality is not supporting you but the way you define money is why you perceive yourself as not supported.
Most people have limiting beliefs that say one or many of the following (or similar things) about money:
If you have even one of the limiting beliefs above then of course you are going to have a lack of money. The universe is supporting you on your definition (belief) about money. If you change the definition (belief) about money then you change the outcome of your life. I wrote an article about how to change limited beliefs here , yet I will take each one of the above ideas about money and help to put an empowering definition to it in the case of money.
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This is actually a quote that was misunderstood. The full quote went something to the effect of "The love of money is the root to evil." In other words, when you LOVE money you will lose a since of who you really are and make money your number one priority above all else. If you have lack of money then of course this description is not you, so you do not have to worry about money affecting you this way especially if your number one priorities are the love of yourself and others.
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Money beliefs of this nature derive from other limiting beliefs like there is not enough to go around or believing one person to have more power or less power to create reality then others, making out victim situations. Yet the universe is infinitely capable of supplying infinite results automatically. Looking at things from the perspective of this article it is difficult to suggest anyone is a victim since all things are equal and originate from the same infinite source. There are thousands of grants (that you do not have to pay back) being sent everyday. In addition, there are government agencies that are safeguarding unclaimed property funds totaling in excess of $24 Billion . There are infinite amount sources money can come from and the infinite universe knows about them all, so the wisest thing to do would be to have no condition on where money comes from within the universe. If everyone in the world decided to be abundant without definitions that are limiting them and without conditions on receiving that abundance then naturally by design everyone would be abundant. Nevertheless, some might think this is difficult to perceive because if everyone is abundant then nobody is abundant. However if everyone has no condition, where the abundance appears form then more then likely the system of money will fail and a new system will be set into place where everyone has plenty. Yet the system of money is in effect and there are no victims within the infinite universe so you might as well take full advantage of it.
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This one has more then one definition in it and I will cover both. First, how you define "hard work" will determine the outcome. Most people define hard work as hard labor or something close to that affect. Yet hard work to me is anything that challenges me. Every time I write an article, it is hard work because I challenge myself to reach out and help millions of people with my words alone. Every time I am bowling, I challenge myself to notice my technique and improve it through each game. Anything can be hard work if you challenge yourself. Second, the definition "good money" in this statement is implying that there is such thing as good and bad when it comes to money. Money is neutral like the universe, the way you define money gives it meaning to you as an individual. If you are doing something to earn money that is not in alignment with who you really are then you might label the way you are earning that money as 'bad'. Yet why would you do anything you label as 'bad' money? More then likely it is because you believe you must in order to gain money, which brings us to the final limiting belief definition of money…
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Let us first look at the obvious within this statement. Where do you think the feeling of loving something comes from? I mean there must be a reason you have this desire, this feeling, this joy within you. I believe that every desire no matter how big or small it is must be achievable. Otherwise, you would not have the desire in the first place. It would be like having a hunger that you could not fulfill. That is something I see as impossible. Do you really believe the feeling of being hungry would be in the body if there were no food to fulfill that feeling? The observable answer is no the hunger would not be there if there were no food. Therefore, what makes anybody think the rest of the universe is set-up any other way?
Naturally Be Supported
         As I said, our bodies are set-up in such a biochemical way that we automatically move away from pain and towards pleasure. All of life is about this purpose. If people put trust into the universe (reality or life) then they would follow their pleasure (joy, passion, or excitement) in every moment without conditions. If anybody were to take each moment and decide out of all the choices, which one is the most pleasure-able (joyful or excitable) then the universe will naturally support them. I explained in the last article how this worked for me and as long as I have been following my joy (passion, excitement, or pleasure) this has been the case without exception.
Examples of Abundant Living
         There was this man, who was followed his joy in bringing out all kinds of emotion inside of people. His passion was to excite people, scare people, make people cry with great emotion of joy or any intense emotion that causes a rush of feeling in a person body. Through continuously following his joy moment to moment, he now has a career producing movies and makes abundant amounts of money for something he would love to do freely. Â
There was a woman who had a passionate joy in reading stories to her children. Within her day, this is the part that she looked forward to the most since it was her pleasure. She would read these stories with such passion, excitement and enthusiasm that her children invited their friends over to hear the stories. Those friends invited their friends and family to the point where through a series of events she had the opportunity to pursue a career of abundance in reading stories to people. Â
It does not matter what your passion is, if you follow it moment to moment, then it will lead you to all the support you can imagine having, without fail. Follow your joy as a statement of who you are as a person. Follow your pleasure with no exception of conditions to what will happen or how you want things to be processed and you will find what you need and so much more. In other words, if going on a walk in that moment is your highest joy out of all the choices you can choice from then go walking rather or not you think you should be spending more time on things that are more productive. You never know who you might meet, what you might be inspired to think or where you might end up. Your pleasure in the moment will lead you exactly where you need to be therefore do not put expectations on the opportunity within the moment. Just do what you enjoy no matter what the outcome or circumstance and the universe will put you exactly where you need to be.
Is It Your Highest Joy Or Something Else?
         Now there might be a time when you think your highest joy in the moment is something that it is not. For example if out of all the choices, you feel your highest joy is to have intercourse with someone else's wife or husband then you are misinterpreting the feeling of joy for a feeling of anxiety or fear. You are misreading the excitement for the definition (belief) you give things rather then pure completely happiness within the joy. The easiest way and a true test to know if you have found the path of your joy in the moment is if you do not care who knows or finds out about it. When you choose to ride a moment of joy and it is the highest joy out of every choice then it will be a choice that allows other the same opportunity. When others are not aware of all their choices to choose because of something you chose, then you take away the opportunity for them to choose their highest joy in each moment for them, which in turn lets you know that your choice is NOT the choice of highest joy. In other words, if nobody is harmed or has the potential of being harmed then you are on the right track.
Trusting the Universe through Surrendering
         When you trust the universe and live within each moment and always choosing your highest joy, then all plans go out the window and you invite a spontaneous life into existence, which is the way life, was went to be lived. Now there is a way to have a spontaneous life and being responsible at the same time within the happy medium but the more you lean to spontaneous choices, the more natural your choices will be, and then you will be ... What this means is to worry not about obligation, necessities, requirements or anything of the sort because if you trust the infinite universe then you will trust that these things will be taken care of by living your highest joy as we mentioned, why would you have a hunger that you could not feed? The universe by design takes care of us, the more alignment we are with our highest joy in each moment, the easier, and more rapidly, the universe can do its job. When you think you have to push, bend, mold, and oblige things in place with force then you are missing the greatest opportunity of life.
The ironic thing about this is that when you decide that it is ok if the worse possible result to come pass and you are comfortable with that thought then you allow and accept by letting go and surrendering to the universe. Once you can honestly make that choice then the worse possible result will not occur, not even close. Â
For example, before I decided to quit my job and start my website to live my passion in helping people, I asked myself, what is the worse possible outcome that could be? Which I determined was to lose everything I own, be a bum on the streets and die of starvation. I decided that was okay with me because if I am not living my passion then I am not living a life worth living. In addition, I found happiness within myself so no outside circumstance could rob me of my happiness. Yet I was aware that I could lose my inner happiness if I chose to, just as I chose to have it and I was even okay with that. Once I decided that any outcome is acceptable then the best outcome happened. My bills and debts are working themselves out, my money situation is looking up, and I have money in the bank. None of which occurred when I had a job. Would you consider this coincidence? When I had a job, all the money I earned would go to bills/ debts and if I did manage to earn more money, it would find itself spent on more bills. I had fun occasionally but never enough to say that having a job was worth my time. Can you relate? Now I live my passion and things look better then they ever did the whole eight years of having a job! This is a result of only two things, which are in sequence to each other.
1. Â Â Â Â Â Following my highest joy to the best of my ability.
2. Â Â Â Â Â Surrendering to the moment without obligation, necessities, and requirements by letting go and allowing the infinite universe control.
The amusing thing about this is that we all spend so much time trying to control our lives and having fear to be out-of-control. Yet the more we try to control a situation, the more unmanageable it gets. The reason is because everything is equal and when you try to control something, you are suggesting that you are above it or somehow not equal to it. If you are ever trying to move away from something, get past or rise above anything then you will be mistaken and the infinite universe will always remind you of that fact. If you want negative situations to discontinue then you must be okay with the fact that they will NEVER EVER STOP. Once you are okay with that obvious truth then there is no reason for the universe to remind you of it but the universe loves you enough to allow you the choice to be in remembrance that all is equal or to remember by letting go and surrendering. Which one do you choose?
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