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How to Live Passionate Without a Purpose

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I’m sure some of you read already blogposts about finding your passion or life purpose. One great example is Steve Pavlina’s How to Discover Your Life Purpose in About 20 Minutes which I really recommand. But to be true it didn’t helped me completly until today. Although I have not found my life purpose I got some great insights about myself and my possible life purposes. Yes, I still don’t know which path to choose. Many weeks I lived with a attitude of resignation and desperation while being stunned to move forward, to be proactive. My thoughts were similiar to:

“Fuck it. I don’t know what to do with my life. I’m seeing how other people get possibilities and crush it all the time but what about me? First I need to figure out what I wanna do before I can be fortunate about my work life. I’m going to watch TV now, lucky bastards.”

I’m not joking! Many weeks I was stunned and just lived my unfulfilling life while watching TV or playing computer games, as same as (thankfully) reading more and more personal development blogposts and books. But some evening when I was whining again about myself being unable to live passionate I got a even deeper insight about the word passion. This changed my whole life immediately.

What is the Purpose of a Purpose?

The funny thing is often we don’t even know why we search for our life purpose. Maybe we’ve read how very successful people chose to leave work and monetize their passion and called that their purpose. Maybe we’ve got a religious background which says that your purpose is to help others or to follow a certain pattern of behaviour to live your life purpose. Maybe we are just desperate and hope to be happy again. Whatever it is – we often don’t even truly know why we search it.

Your life purpose is the lense through which you perceive reality. It defines your life context and leads you on your path. What do I mean by that? I think the best way to explain the influence of one’s life purpose is an example:

John discovered his life purpose (in 20 minutes maybe) and knows what makes him feeling fulfilled: to serve himself. He’s really into the whole darkworker thing and wants to life a great life himself first. Others come second. His life purpose is to live the greatest life he can imagine through focusing on himself. So how does this purpose influences him? That’s really clear: Every decision he takes he faces through his lense of “which path may lead me to a more fulfilled, rich and joyful life?” His reality is changed because he’s focusing on opportunities for himself. Maybe there is a advertisement for voluntary work, but he’ll just notice an ad for a new money investment. I think you get the point.

Sarah discovered her life purpose (maybe in 40 minutes) as same like John. This time Sarah want’s to help the world to gain peace. Yeah its really a cliche, i know hehe! Well, now what Sarah experiences in her life is totally different from John. She notices the advertisement for voluntary work, she sees the poverty on the streets but she also has hope and knows that she can change something, too. She also takes immediate action.
So the purpose of your life purpose is to give you a new perspective on life, which has a great impact on your percipience and your actions!

The Difference between Your Passion and Your Life Purpose.

So what’s the difference now?
Your life purpose is on a higher level than your passion. That’s because your life purpose affects your passion at any time.  Believe me this insight is HUGE. Now you gonna give up searching for your life purpose and passion on the same level and start living a fulfilling life. This is also the mistake I did everytime discovering my life purpose. I discovered my life context but searched for something available, something to work with immediately. I failed. I’ve became frustrated. No action.

The key to finding your passion is to know your purpose already before. If I would know that I am just seconds away from my passion I wouldn’t believe it. At that time my purpose sounded like “I want to help people grow. I want to change the world to a better place. I want to contribute.” I had too many options left to go for it directly and take action! I could go to greenpeace, I could become a teacher, I could become a Rapstar to influence all the kids, I could even go to the NASA and search for Aliens to help us with our ecological problems. I’m serious. My possibilites – and yours also – are countless.

But when I realize that I’m aware of my life purpose  now and NOT of my passion I get a new perspective on the whole “find your passion or DIE” topic. This is a crucial insight which I want to share with everyone of you:

If I don’t know my passion consciously in this moment, there is no other way to get to know it then to act.

This is really unbelieveable essential. Because too many people stay stuck and don’t act (like myself), they NEVER FIND THEIR PASSION. This is all it needs to be happy, have a fulfilling life and get what you want to get as same as give what you want to give.

Play the Trial & Error Game – Act As If

There is no other path to be sure that you are on your way to your passion. But who said that your life passion needs to be forever the same? Sure you don’t want to work on a carrer for five years or more to realize that you want to do something completely different. But wait – why not? If you had fun working there, there is really nothing to regret. Even if it was hard and unfulfilling work like you did maybe up till today, you’ve gained insight in what’s NOT your passion. And that is as valueable as knowing your passion. So if you choose today to go one path straight forward, dont be afraid. There is no possiblity to lose something, you are gaining in either way great insights. And if you choose something fun to try out you maybe don’t even feel like working hard.

ACT AS IF YOUR ACTUAL PATH IS YOUR TRUE PASSION – and watch out for the results.   Be creative. Be active. Please. Now.

31. August 2009 | Life Purpose | Kommentare (0)

Simplicity


by riccardopanello

Some of you may have noticed the wordpress theme I use. It is simple. I want to try out new themes from time to time but this one is one of my favorites. While I’m a big fan of the Zen Habits blog I really like the Idea of simplicity. I’ve started to clean out my own room from unnessecary stuff from my childhood but its still quite messy in here. As I said in my first post I’m more the passive guy who likes many ideas but has a hard time in taking action and implement them. But as same as in my room I try to upgrade my blog theme, too.

Simplicity in my possessions

I am considering give some multimedia equipment away to my parents. I really dont need a big tv (I wouldn’t watch it often anyway) or my hi-fi system to be happy. Also I try to sell some of my old games and CDs at ebay to create some space. Right now it stagnates a bit but with time I’ll get ahead. It’s not easy to break the unconscious pattern learned within 18 years for simplicity’s sake, not at all. But I see the advantage in creating more space for new things and focusing on the really important stuff that affects me the most.

Creating space

I really like the idea of creating space for something new because if my room – or my life – is crowded with unnessecary stuff I even not know well, how in God’s sake could I attract new valueable things into my life? As same as money needs to be in a steady flow your life needs to align with the flow and not stagnate. If you want to get more things you cannot attract more without giving something away. As same as in the Law of Attraction you need to create within your life circumstances a flow that provides you with fresh and updated possessions or events that align with your current level of development. If you are a teenager you would’n play with playmobil anymore unless it provides you with more fulfillment then the opposite sex, music or sports. We are changing and growing all the time even when our bodys are outgrown. Try to keep your surroundings up to date with yourself.

how the external influences your inner being

There are times where I feel a need to clean up my room. I don’t often like to clean it up and feel no fulfillment while doing it but when this specific need appears I really feel like pushed from within myself to clean my room. I believe that this is the way my unconscious mind wants to tell me that I have to much stuff going on in my conscious mind and need to clean up a little bit. But why cleaning up my room and not meditating?
I believe that while cleaning up your room you get rid of many distractions you don’t even notice conscious in your everyday life but which are really stressfull for your uncounsciousness.  At the same time you calm your mind through focusing on your external task. A clean room or desk can really influence you, your work and your level of hapiness and rest. But if you don’t clean up actively your uncounscious mind will remind you through your feelings ’cause they are your signals for your inner state. Every feeling has got a reason for appearing so don’t shut yourself.

Be aware. Be conscious.

20. August 2009 | Simplicity | Kommentare (0)

How I launched this blog

I had the idea of my personal blog for some time creeping around in my head but I never launched it until yesterday. I got already a theme and a wordpress installationfile on my server but no domain purchased. But yesterday night I got a call with my good friend Alice Hive and felt ready to start this blog. In just one minute I typed in the domain of my host and chose a new domain. I had a feeling of great power through taking action directly after getting the intention from outside. I was suprised because I never acted in such a dedicated and fast way before.

Taking instant action

It sounds ridiciolous simple but is one of the biggest mistakes people can do when craving for success and leaving this thing out.  I am one of these people, believe me. But I tasted the flavour of success when getting started and want MORE. But how should I do it when I have really no goals for my blog, I just want to keep it alive for years and fill it with information valueable for me and the world. Nothing else.

So maybe I’ll take action? What would this look like?
Haha – the answer again is as simple as gorgeous: I publish a blog post today.

World, it’s done.

19. August 2009 | Everything | Kommentare (0)

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