Reclaiming a Passionate Life

            Passion can become all encompassing!

            When you start unleashing the passion in your life, you’re going to find direction and focus and ultimately, the reason you are here on this earth.  So many people never get to the point of fully living their passion because of the demands of daily life.     

             By now, you have been revealing through self examination, the when, why, what of your passion and of course the ‘who’ is you and ‘where’ is just where you are now.  
             Now, sit back and let’s do a bit of reminiscing.  Go back in your mind to a time when you were living fully as you.  Who you are, doing what you love to do, doing it when you want to do.  How far back did you have to go?  Are you a young adult, teenager, preteen or younger? Has it surprised you how far back you had to go?

             Before you think you can’t get to 'what' you really were meant to do, let me tell you a story. 

             Someone I know was working in the job he always wanted; had experiences within his life history that most people never get in their lifetime.  Then, while driving to work on his new bike he had bought to prepare for a triathlon, he was hit by a car and suffered multiple injuries including a concussion which left him unable to work for several months.  During that time, when he could do little else, he could have thought about all that he had lost, freedom of movement, earning potential, quality of life and I’m sure at times those things flooded his mind from time to time, however, what he did was finish writing a book he had started several months earlier, but, had little time to work on due to the demands of this occupation.

             This was a passion, he didn’t even know he had, yet, he had been working up to it through work and was totally unaware that what he had learned in his chosen line of work was preparing him for the rigors of creating a commercial work of fiction.  Long hours, writes, re-writes, proofreading, taking criticism, forging ahead when you exhausted!  Could you see your work dissected and criticized and continue to find the energy to keep writing – not many could!

             This is what I want for you, to find the thing that wakes you up! Find the thing that you are passionate about and would want to do even if no one ever paid you for it.  The thing you loved to do that you have put away, because life had pushed it out as frivolous or merely a pass time.  The thing that would bring meaning to your life and would also impact on those you love in a positive way.  This is important to remember.  Your passion should not be a hardship on someone else.  Passion is encompassing and liberating and inclusive.  It should make you a better person.  An easier person to be around and a more grounded person who is working to include, not exclude those they love.      I don’t want anyone selling the family home to set up a remote fishing camp because they always loved fishing and camping, when it would impact negatively on their spouse or family. 

            If you need to and many of you will need to – find yourself a coach to bring you intact through this exercise.  All the best to you and let me know how it is working out for you.   Great journey!