Discover Your Passion

Could being a Masseuse be your passion?

I love to read stories about people who discover their passion and live happily ever after. In the newspaper this Sunday I read about a young man who had worked nine years for a cable company and just wasn’t receiving any real satisfaction.

He is a people person who always loved to message people’s shoulders in the office. His friend recommended he go to school for message therapy, and the rest is history.

Robert Ballatt’s company, Just 1 Touch, offers a variety of services to clients along the east coast, such as deep tissue message, facials, reflexology, scalp message and so much more.

I don’t know Robert, have never talked to him, but I am always delighted to learn about people who live their passions.

I am collecting stories similar to Robert’s. If you have a passion, let me know.

Using Your Intuition to Discover Your Passion

Discovering your passion isn’t easy, especially when you have a variety of interests. I’ve always thought finding your passion was easy for artists, singers, dancers, mathematicians, doctors, etc.--people in careers that require an obvious talent. But what about the vast majority of people. How do they find their passion?

I believe the search begins in your imagination.  It requires that you listen to your inner voice, your hunches, your intuition.  What do you daydream about? What gives you pleasure to think about? What tasks make you feel good after you’ve done them? 

Intuition is an inner awareness and a sense of knowing what is outside the realm of logical thought.  Yet it possesses a wonderful flowing logic all its own.  

A powerful inner guide, intuition shows itself in the hunches you have. Intuition is the inspiration that leads you over and over in a particular direction or gives you added insight into a specific area or a creative breakthrough or magically gets you in the right place at the right time.  

You must constantly ask yourself what you love to do the most, then listen to your intuition for an answer.  “Your passion in life is about you, about your willingness to serve others while serving yourself,” writes Dr. Robert  Anthony in his book Doing What You Love, Loving What You Do.

Bottom line: listen to yourself, your feelings, thoughts, intuition. Your passion is there--listen and find it!

THE IMPORTANCE OF PURPOSE

For the many people who have lost their jobs, there can be a bright side. They do what they can to find a job, and their spare time could be used to discover their passion and find a way to earn money doing what they love.

In his book, In Search of Meaning, Victor Frankl tells of his horror-filled days as a prisoner in a Nazi prison camp.  He said he made an interesting observation about those people who survived the terror and hardships of their ordeals.  He stated, in effect, that those who had a purpose in life survived; those who did not see any hope or believe they a purpose, died, even if their bodies were physiologically equal. 

 

That is a significant observation.

 

Wayne Dyer in Real Magic  recalls the words of the prison inmate, “Nothing is more likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.” 

 

You can alter his words a bit by using the word passion in place of task.  “Nothing is more likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a passion in life.” 

 

That’s what you want to uncover as you progress through the book Profit From Your Passion.  Living your passion changes your life.