Finding Your Passion Through the Power of Words

Finding Your Passion Through the Power of Words Do you feel as if you're living a passionless life? Do you desire the same passion that you see in other people? It can be difficult to go through life without a true passion. There are many things that can cause you to live a life without passion. It's possible that an unhappy childhood stifled your dreams, or you've never had an opportunity to develop your aspirations. Maybe indulging in your passion makes you feel guilty. Or perhaps you don't have time in your busy schedule to explore and enjoy the very things that could bring you joy. Today, you must make the commitment to pursue your passion! Give Yourself the Freedom to Discover Passion You're a deserving person! You have the right and the need to feel passionate about the things that are near and dear to you. You may not even realize what you're missing if you never had a chance to find and develop your goals. Discover your passion and embrace it because it can lead you to a life without limits! You can turn your passion into a career, hobby, or a way to network with people. Passion can improve every aspect of your life. It's your passion that makes your life positive and fulfilling. When first starting your quest toward your dreams, you may wonder, "What is there to be passionate about?" That's perfectly normal. Many people start out with the same question. Even if you feel that way, it's never too late for you to find something that fills you with an inner joy and peace. Your life begins anew when you pursue your dreams, desires, and goals. You can gain a fresh perspective in your life when you take some time to expand your comfort zone and pursue the things that you'd never considered before. For example, if you traveled to a foreign place and met new people, you would see and experience things a whole new world that will open your eyes and mind. When you do this, you may find something that's been missing from your life! Passion Affirmations Can Spark Your Passion You may be able to find your passions through the power of affirmations. When you give yourself permission to be passionate, you may suddenly find that you're more enthusiastic about things than you previously dreaded. Passion affirmations are positive statements that change the way you think about life and the world around you. Affirmations positively influence your subconscious. Passion affirmations can bring to light a wonderful new way of living that's full of joy, abundance, and gratitude. For example, when you get out of bed each morning, you might say to yourself, "Igniting my passion is another way of revealing how much I love myself." Every time you repeat this statement you're reaffirming that thought in your mind. At the same time, you're eliminating negative thoughts that may be holding you back. Choose affirmations that you feel speak to you and relate to your own feelings. Repeat them several times each day and soon you'll discover the joys of living a passionate life!

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Do What You Love, Money Follows: The Coffee Cup Artist

By Dr. Susan Biali, M.D. / Source:Psychology Today

Follow your passion – it may pay off in surprising ways

First, before some of you get started with predictable comments on the title of this post, I am not saying that all things that you love to do will be guaranteed to generate income, and I’m also not saying that things are only worth doing if you can earn income from them.

But hey, if you happen to absolutely love doing something, so much that you can’t believe someone would pay you for it, and then people start to pay you for it (enabling you to work less at your “day” job and do more of what you love), that can be a very beautiful thing.

I speak from experience on this. I was amazed to discover that my passion for dance (which I began to finally pursue formally as a 28 year old doctor) led to all kinds of opportunities, some of which paid shockingly well. A few years in, after my salsa and flamenco dance “career” led me to spend several years dancing and living in Los Cabos, further leading me to all sorts of other epiphanies about life, I wrote a book (Live a Life You Love: 7 Steps to a Healthier, Happier, More Passionate You) about it. I also found myselfcoaching others into living their own uniquely amazing lives, and being paid to stand on stage and tell the story of my rather unorthodox – and apparently quite inspirational - career course.

Did I study dance because I planned to earn significant income from it? No, of course not, I danced because I loved it more than anything. Since I was a young girl, though, I had always dreamed of dancing professionally, even though my parents wouldn’t pay for dance lessons. Something inside me must have known what awaited me.

Now one of my favorite passions is collecting stories of others who have created surprising results by doing something that comes effortlessly to them, something they absolutely love and would do whether they were paid or not.

I was in New York this past spring, visiting my sister Laila. She’s another of these success stories, as she turned her love for music - initially met with great resistance from our parents - into a multiple award-winning international career, including recent stints working and performing with Sting.(See www.LailaBiali.com.)  That weekend, I met her husband’s cousin Gwyneth.

As we idly chit-chatted, Gwyneth casually mentioned the story of her coffee cup art. I immediately shouted “What!? You have to tell me about this!” and grabbed from my purse the little notebook I reserve for documenting such occasions.

A professional artist who historically focuses on oils and canvas, Gwyneth told me that in 2007 she started drawing on her used coffee cups while passing time in meetings, such as her regular attendance at her daughter’s school’s PTA.

“It was actually a way for me to focus and listen during the meeting,” she said.

In her visually gorgeous blog at www.gwynethsfullbrew.com, she writes:

“Sitting still and listening at meetings, my hands needed to move constantly and without really being aware of it, my paper coffee cups were covered with drawings. These drawings intrigued me and I followed the thread. The cup form is the same each time, so I gave myself complete permission to draw anything I liked. This way, with pens at the ready, and an inexhaustible supply of something to draw on, I have managed to stay in a highly generative place.”

“A stint of jury duty in the City some months later led to the elaboration of my technique with art pen and brush pens. I now save the cups from the drinks I buy and occasionally collect them from other artists with whom I meet for tea or coffee around town. I wash and dry them and record on the bottom the date, place and occasion, as well as the drink that was consumed, thus capturing the social moment just passed.”

By the time I met Gwyneth, she and her cups already had representation from an art dealer (I almost fell over when she told me what a single cup went for), and she had had two exhibitions.
Since then she has had her most prominent exhibition of all, going on right now in New York’s Flatiron Building ,an iconic landmark on 23rd Street where 5th Avenue and Broadway cross. She draws on cups in the window Tuesdays – Saturdays 11 am – 2 pm. The exhibition runs until December 31st.

I love this kind of story so much. You would think, being an artist that specialized in more traditional art, that that would be where her “big break” would come from. Yet I continually have found life to be so much more creative and surprising, as it obviously is in this story.

Top dollar paid for a beautiful work of oil on canvas? Pretty typical. Top dollar paid for whimsical drawings on a coffee cup? Magical. Some might have a hard time understanding it, and might even scoff about the value of this kind of art, but all I care about is that Gwyneth loves her “upcycling” art, and the people who buy her cups love having them. And they really are gorgeous.

I encourage you to go for it, whatever it is. Find and make time to do what you love, no matter how late in life it seems or how potentially frivolous. Even if you never make a cent and all you have to show for your own art is the joy of doing, it was worth it. And if life surprises you with a living from it? Wonderful.

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What Is Your Purpose?

Post by Raymond Pasimio Red.

The Winner In You: Light is Born

The Winner In You: Light is Born

Igniting Passion, Inspiring Success

At Metrobank, Human Resources Department waiting area were batch of young hopefuls so elated.

This day was the first day of their job. While on the otherside it was me and my business partner Ansel- with the same level of intensity and right state of mind we were waiting for the release of our last Paycheck. We were gainfully employed for the last ten years with the bank, just recently we kicked our Boss out.

The young are newly hired and we are newly fired! Either side we were on high and our level of excitement were uncontested.

For the young. its their moment of triumph having surpassed the hurdle of long years of education. they willfully obeyed their proud Mama and Papa "My child get good grades, get graduated, and get a good job" For reasons Metrobank is one of the top corporation in the land, Wow! its an honor for the newly grad and their parents to have it first with the Good hands.

Next side was Me and Ansel laughing out loud, we recalled how it was us once before. We were then energized and hopefuls. Today we take risks and triumphed past employment and regenerates our life with time freedom and financial independence.

Being young and young once we have same reason to be joyous for now, we know exactly how to be triumphant over each destinations we had passed. Its not what you are today, what you were before, the future is always clear. Its YOU.

Changing life is changing YOU, Decide what you want to be, whatever you may be. the difference is YOU.

Yes its YOU!

Set a new dream and you'll have plenty of energy, Set a goal that inspires you
(Philippians 3:13-14)