What are your steps to getting to your Path To Passion(TM)? Don't forget...as a Bond Grrl, you want to be PASSIONATE about what you are doing. Bond Grrls don't dog it out in dead end jobs...!
Are you active or passive when it comes to your passion? (Do you believe that your life will be exciting and fulfilling -- and spend time visualizing how great it will/can be -- or are you "waiting for life to happen to you"?)
So let's talk about how to get on that Path To Passion(TM)!
1. Detail What You Want. We have talked about this before -- you have to be able to visualize what you want -- smell it, taste it, see it, hear it. Details Details! If there were no "speed bumps" to your success, what would you do? Where would you be? DREAM! That is your first order of business. Better yet -- dialog with a coach, someone who will be excited about where you're going on your path.
2. Examine Your Life. How does this dream match with your current reality? And how can you "smoosh" them together? I read something the other day that was a suggestion by a life coach -- she said that if you feel dead-ended in a job, to try to take what you are doing, and just do what you are doing "closer" to your passion. Her example was if you're an accountant, and you want to be a rock star, to become an accountant in the music industry. (My high school boyfriend actually did just this!) You don't have to throw everything up in the air and start over -- because that's a good way to fall flat on your face :-) I remember also hearing an analogy once about "quitting everything and going to pursue your passion" -- the gal analogized this to jumping out of an airplane without a parachute, assuming that everything would be OK. Splat!
So who can help you get yourself on your Path To Passion(TM)? Who do you need to help you "magnetize" this into your life? Don't forget -- hold fast to your dreams, and don't spill them to ANYONE who might beat you down. Only share with people who are going to be as supportive of them and your success as possible! As for the others...just let them wonder why it is that you have a little smile on your face like a cat drinking cream!
You also want to think about what you want, and why you want it...not how you are going to get it. "How" is going to present itself to you, as you move towards your goals -- your Path To Passion (TM) will open up. You need to concern yourself about detailing the "what" -- and feeling the emotion behind the "why." Then, every night before you go to bed (I do this, no joke), you say to God/Jesus/The Universe/The Virgin Mary/Your Grandmother In Heaven: "I am delivering up this dream to you -- you do the HOW, I will stay committed and excited in the NOW."
3. Come Up With A Gameplan. Often, this is where a coach can really help. You need to have steps (baby steps are good!) towards reaching your goal, and a timeframe. What are you going to do today? Tomorrow? Next week? Next month? I have found (myself!) that if I have a coach I have to "report to" (whom I am paying!) I want to be sure to "get my money's worth" from her -- meaning, I do the things I said I would, because I am paying her to keep tabs on me! :-)
4. Plan Your Work -- and Work Your Plan. This means actually DOING the goals that you put in your game plan. Keep moving forward -- and if you don't get to something on your list, you need to re-evaluate, and see whether you need to make time from other areas, etc. to get on your Path To Passion(TM). Also, you need to make sure you're really emotionally fired up about whatever it is. Let me give you an example. Right now, I need to lose 10 pounds. Am I working on it? Yeah....kinda. (And I just had 1/2 a donut from the kitchen at the office, too. Bad grrl.) But when I was going to do a strip dance for my then-boyfriend, now-fiance, YOU BET I was in the gym, making room for it out of ALL other time in my week. I wanted to be HOT (and I sure was). I am not so emotionally 'tied' to losing that weight right this second -- but in about a month, when the wedding dress gal gives me a call that it's "fitting time" -- whoa, doggie! Keep your goals and priorities -- and what you're aiming for -- in front of your eyes, and also keep your emotions committed to that goal!
5. Once you Get Your Goal -- Plan The Next! Try not to dilute your focus on your first goal by thinking about another and another -- be focused on that one, get it, then move on to Dream B. :-) Make sure you keep your Dream Pipeline full -- you don't want to reach your goal and do one of those "OH, my life is so EMPTY" things (back of your hand to your forehead) -- always have Dream B and C and D...but just give them enough energy to keep them from drooping -- get Dream A first, then move the rest up the line.
Go get'em!
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Then, every night before you go to bed (I do this, no joke), you say to God/Jesus/The Universe/The Virgin Mary/Your Grandmother In Heaven: "I am delivering up this dream to you -- you do the HOW, I will stay committed and excited in the NOW."
Omigawd! I'm SO biting this off of you! That is so simply put, yet packs a serious punch!
Love it!
Everyday I keep coming back to this blog to get my inspiration. I'm starting to realize my problem. Like you said I'm "waiting for life to happen to you"(me). I think that teaching could be some what of a passion and maybe I can "smoosh" that with my current reality and become an Accoutant Teacher. I don't know, I want to do something more exciting!
Well, I'll just keep being expired on your steps to my Path To Passion (TM).
sidenotes:
How was the S Factor party? Did you meet Sheila?
I've been on youtoldharpotabeatme's blog and she's too real!! She posted something that really helped me come to realize something about my James and I relationship.
Her name came from the movie The Color Purple, with Oprah and that was a line of O's. Have you ever seen the movie? If not you better go rent it quick!!:-))))
I gotta check out ...Harpo's... blog -- I saw the Color Purple OMG when it was in the ~movie theatre~ -- time to go rent it :-)
I ~did~ meet Sheila -- she was totally normal. OK -- she reminded me of me! She was inundated with hangers-on tho, so I couldn't talk that long. It was funny, there was this gal who was following me (!!) around -- I was there with 2 grrlfriends AND my James -- she just kinda "glommed on" me and I have no NO CLUE why. Well she came up as I was approaching Sheila, and Sheila turned to me and she TOTALLY HOGGED the spot. She was totally insecure, and talked about how she just didn't feel the sensuality, she had come from an abusive relationship, she wasn't pretty (she actually was, nice looking gal), her husband was in jail, blah BLAH BLAH BLAH and of course Sheila is all telling her "You are GREAT you are your own worst enemy blah blah look at you you're fabulous" building her up and I'm thinking LISTEN B*&ch you stole'my TIME. I was PISSED.
The funnier part is the next lesson, there was this gal, in MY class. No joke, I'm thinking like "Stalker." Turns out she had missed her class, and she came to make it up in mine. So she's all friendly to me and of course I am friendly back -- she doesn't even know that she stole "my" time with Sheila and that I didn't want her to freakin' follow me around like a puppy dog at the Open House.
But -- I ASK YOU!????
(It was funny tho, I have to say that now. I was annoyed then tho)
NOW, as for your passion. When you were a grrl, did you do things like "make school" with the other kids, help them with homework, did you get pleasure out of that? Because if so, if you get pleasure out of helping people out, that whole "teacher thing" sounds good to me. But as per my other post -- you need to go back to what floated your boat when you were little -- not that you "think you might like" -- something you LOVED. Let's start from there. Because it might be something completely off the wall, that you have "suppressed." You could tell me "my Lord, when I was a little girl, you could not GET me inside. I was outdoor all the time, from morning until night. I loved it outside, I loved the smell of the grass..." (you know, the opposite of me, Ms Bookworm in my corner bed (smile).) If THAT was the case, I would say "welllll, maybe you need to start looking at something that will get you out more. Something REALLY different than Accounting, but just something that you are trying on for now, to see. Like -- be the playground monitor at your daughter's school once a week (big grin). Or become a coach for girls' soccer (remember, I am making this up, based on the story that I just made up above).
Does that make sense?
Yes! You always make sense :) Thanks!!
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