Finding Your Passion – What Gets You Going

Finding your passion is tough but once you find it, you’ll know it. Things will seem effortless. You’ll work on your passion with near obsession and not feel like you’ve spent hours without a break. It will be fun! But what if you don’t know what your passion is? Here are some ways to find it:

1) If you earned $300,000 per day, how would you spend it?

Money can hinder you from your passion when you tell yourself that you can’t earn enough to maintain your lifestyle by following your passion. Pretend money was no object and your lifestyle was not at risk, what would you do? Is there a way to make money doing it?

2) Find Your Definite Chief Aim

Your definite chief aim is a phrase that embodies your life’s passion. The more specific and evoking it is, the more if will drive you to live your passion. A great example of a definite chief aim is by Bruce Lee:

“By 1980, I will be the best known Oriental movie star in the United States and will have secured $10 million dollars. And in return I will give the very best acting I could possibly give every single time I am in front of the camera and I will live in peace and harmony.”

You can see how Bruce Lee embodies his life in his chief aim. He read this everyday to evoke the emotions around his passion and his success followed in queue. For more information on a definite chief aim check out this article by tonytellsall.com (click here).

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Setting Your Short-Term Goals – Take Baby Steps

Once you define your lifetime achievements and what success means to you, the next step is to set your short-term goals to be sure they keep you on the path to success. It’s easy to over-think this, but it doesn’t need to be difficult.  Here are some hints and tips on setting good short-term goals:

1) Create SMART Goals

SMART goals stands for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Timely. The essence of a good SMART goal is that it’s easy to refer to frequently to track your progress and remain focused. For a template you can use to set your SMART Goals (click here).

2) Give Yourself Rewards

Goals should be naturally motivating if they align with your lifetime goals but sometimes we all need a little boost to keep us going. For all your SMART goals, add a reward that you will give yourself for achieving them, you may consider matching the size of the reward to the significance of the goal.

3) Set Your Milestones

SMART goals are great for one-year or less, but if you want to keep on your path to success, you will want to arrange specific milestones for the next one to three years. In most cases, milestones are achieved by accomplishing several of your SMART goals.

We’d enjoy hearing more about your goals, milestones and rewards. The best thing you can do to solidify your goals is to share them with others so they can support you in your pursuit of success.

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