Awaken Your Passion
Posted on Sat, Nov 13, 2010 @ 02:12 AM
Guest post by Nancy Shields:
Hello Girlfriends – I dedicate this blog especially for my dear friend that alerted me that I wrote a blog on live your passion but since her passion is sleeping wants to know how to awaken her passion. I also write this to all my girlfriends reading that may think they have lost their passion.
I am certain our passions can come back; it may not be easy but nonetheless quite doable. For a passion to be sleeping it must have been put to sleep. Sadness, disappointment, fear of waking up to life, can all be causes of our passion to go to sleep. We all go through different degree of pain in our lives, some more than others. Pain is a passion killer; but it doesn’t have to be a passion ender!
I have a great friend that often says, you must feel the pain to go through the pain. At some point in our lives, we must get past the pain and back to where we can be awake and experience joy once again.
No one, of course, can awaken your passion except yourself. So I ask, what are you going to do for yourself to awaken that passion. It’s easy to fall into a rut after living in pain or doom and gloom for so long. Remember, that something wonderful can be around the corner. It’s time we call it into our lives and not sit back and wait for it to come to us. To know your passion clearly is the first step, it’s like sowing a seed in your consciousness. Just like sowing a seed, a plant doesn’t grow overnight – you must water it and nurture it with the right amount of light. It’s important to be around people that can inspire you to this next stage. Here are a few things you may try.
- Write down the things you liked to do as a child. Open your memory to the fun you can remember. We must re-energize the child within and be silly, laugh and play once again.
- Make a list of about 5 or so things you like to do as an adult; be true to yourself and totally honest.
I ask that you get back to what you really love to do. Not your job, not being a wife or mother. Something just for YOU! Something that gives YOU joy. The gifts you have. The desires you have; we all have desires and gifts. Search and you will find them. Life gets in the way and we forget our passions. We awaken to who we really are; we are precious to this life and connect with something bigger than us.
There is a proverb that states, “Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel. Our reason is the pilot that steers her. Without winds the vessel would not move and without a pilot she would be lost.” Get back in the pilot seat, motivate yourself, and steer your plane that we call life!
Remember, may the possibilities of today excite us all!
Author Bio: I am a woman with a passion to inspire and encourage women to be better women for themselves and for this world. I am creator/founder of a social networking website www.makegirlfriends.com where women can meet, share and inspire one another. My blog can be found at blog.makegirlfriends.com.