DiscoveringYour PassionPocholo “The VoiceMaster”Gonzales

Follow Your Dreams

What Do You Love?

8 Powerful Ways 8 Powerful Ways to Rediscover to Rediscover Your PassionYour Passion

1. Spend more time alone. 1. Spend more time alone.

• When you surround yourself with lots of people, or even one very strong individual, it is difficult to know what excites you. It is easy to become influenced if outside energies are stronger than yours.

2. Heighten your awareness. 2. Heighten your awareness.

• No matter where you choose, look around and learn to really appreciate your surroundings. This is a space you selected, so be aware of all the details that made it your place of choice. Use your senses to take in the beauty, scents, textures, and sounds.

3. Reflect. 3. Reflect.

• Once you are comfortable in your space, close your eyes. Put your focus on the fact that you are pure energy and, because of that, you are a vibrational being. Let this really sink in.

4. Write down your revelations.

• Once you are able to wrap yourself around the idea of who you are at the core, write these thoughts down. Explore how this makes you feel. If you really “get it” you will be feeling very powerful.

5. Experiment with your choices.

• Okay, it’s time to get out there and have some fun in the real material world. Take a pottery class, attend a lecture on photography, join a writer’s group, go deep-sea fishing, etc, etc. The world is your oyster.

6. Bring clarity to your passion. 6. Bring clarity to your passion.

• The universe likes specifics. If you are clear in what you want, these things will more likely show up for you. Many people find themselves stuck here. You may find that you have many interests, but you are not sure if there is one thing you wholeheartedly want to pursue.

7. Affirm. 7. Affirm.

• Once you have the passion you wish (and need) to pursue, put it in affirmation form. Try this on for size…

“I am a talented painter, and my work is sought after from people from all walks of life.”

Write your affirmations down, say them out loud, record them, and listen to them when you are working out or driving. Make them personal and

specific. When you practice them (writing or speaking), notice the

feelings that come up for you.

8. Get your feet wet.

• Act. Take a risk. This is usually another stumbling block for a lot of folks. But without this step, your passion will remain an unrealized dream.

If you have come this far, do not allow yourself to stop now. An intelligent risk when the timing is right, can take your life from dull to awesome.

Brief review of all the steps in a concise way Brief review of all the steps in a concise way to help you on your journey:to help you on your journey:

• Get to know yourself.• Be one with your positive feelings• Be aware of what is showing up for you.• Acknowledge these as gifts.• Express gratitude.• Replace fear with faith.• Listen to your intuition.• Free yourself of expectations and surrender to

your divine guidance.• Take action using your

unleashed passion while continuing to dream.

• People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates. ~Thomas Szasz, "Personal Conduct," The Second Sin, 1973

This is where most people This is where most people stumble and get stuck. stumble and get stuck.

• they either have no idea what their passion is or they scream that they have too many.

We will look at the following, in particular, in this chapter

• .... Too Many Passions?

• .... What if I am on the Wrong Track?

• .... Pulling It All Together

• "You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others – something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.”

• Albert Schweitzer

• “You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.”

• Alan Alda

Consider…Consider…

• Write down your responses to the following:

1.) In what areas are you an expert– or at least highly skilled – that other people value?

2.) What have you achieved/accomplished/

proud of?

• .... Do you envy anyone? Why?

• .... Whose life would you like to have? Why?

• .... Leaving aside whether you agree with cloning, what if you were presented with a baby clone of you – what would you encourage him/her to pursue?

.... Who do you admire? Why?

• .... What would you do to make the world a better place for you, your friends and family, and for others?

• .... What do you want your passion to give to you?

.... Ask your three most trusted friends .... Ask your three most trusted friends to answer the following questions:to answer the following questions:

• o What do you think I am good at?

• o What do you think are my top 5 natural talents?

• o What do you think my passion could be?

• o How am I getting in my own way and self-sabotaging?

• .... How do you want to be remembered? Not how you ‘think’ you will be remembered, but how you would design the epitaph or emblem of your life –

your ideal life?

• ““Dreams are like stars… you Dreams are like stars… you may never touch them, but if you may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to follow them they will lead you to your destiny.”your destiny.”