Designing a Passionate Life

What is Your Level of Participation in Life?

Designing a passionate life requires complete participation in life. This includes the good and the not so good things that occur in your life. Whether or not you like it, stuff happens in your life and you have to deal with it. You have the choice to participate full out or approach life as a spectator.

When you choose to live a passionate life, you are choosing to live full out. You are focused on your passions and you choose consistently in favor of your passions. There will be highs and lows along the path of living passionately but one thing is for sure, it will be an interesting and fascinating journey.  It's up to you on how you participate in life. Here are some ideas on how to live life as a spectator or to live full out.

How to be a Spectator of Life

• Put up your wall of defense. Don't make any friends
• Keep your heart closed. Don't let anyone get close to you.
• Defend and protect. Alienate your friends and family.
• Don't be of service. Keep to yourself and do your own thing.
• Don't take any chances. Always play it safe.
• Resist making changes to your life.
• Don't live a passionate life. Keep doing the same thing over and over and expect different results.

How to Participate Full Out in Life

• Be vulnerable. Make friends and create a community to support you in living your passions.
• Open your heart. Let people in and experience how connecting with others feels.
• Embrace friends and family members. Heal any broken relationships.
• Be of service to those who need your help or expertise.
• Take chances. You never know what interesting outcomes may occur.
• Embrace making changes to your life.
• Live passionately. Make different choices and see what happens in your life.

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How to Embrace Waiting

Designing a passionate life includes the ability to wait with ease and grace. This is not always an easy thing to do. I find this to be one of the most challenging aspects of my life. I can do it better in some areas than others and perhaps that is your experience as well. I find that the more I'm attached to the outcome of the event, the harder it is for me to wait with ease and grace. I want it to happen quicker, I want to try and force it to happen and I have no control over either of these things, so it is a waste of my time and energy to even try.

Think about the amount of time you spend waiting. You wait in the doctor's office, dentist's office, the grocery store checkout line, in traffic, to receive an answer to a business proposal, for a potential new client to say yes, for a job offer to come, or to hear the outcome of an election. These are just a few areas of our lives where we experience waiting. How you spend your time waiting is a part of living a passionate life and will directly affect your outcomes.

Think of all of the opportunities available to you while waiting that you can use in energizing ways. How do you spend your time waiting? Do you spend your time worrying, frustrated because you can't move onto your next task, angry at the people in front of you, anxious because it is taking so much of your time, angry because you haven't got an answer yet? All of these ways to wait, use your energy and put you in a negative state of mind. How could you use your waiting time differently?

Reflect on How You Wait

• Notice the emotions you are experiencing and then ask yourself, what is the source of these emotions? More than likely it isn't the waiting at all, but some thought that you have about your time waiting. Explore this possibility and see what comes up for you.
• Possible questions to ask yourself include?
• How can I experience this waiting time differently?
• What are the possibilities?
• How can I make this time more enjoyable?
• What will it take for me to be at peace during this time of waiting?
• How do I want to feel while I wait?
• What am I to learn from this time of waiting?

Suggestions on How to Wait

• Breathe deeply and think about a time and place when you really enjoyed yourself.
• If you're in a line, engage the person in front or behind you in a conversation.
• If you're driving, spend the time naming the things that you are grateful for or really look at the scenery that you drive past every day.
• Connect to your Spirit and enjoy the energy this provides you.
• Choose how you want to feel while you're waiting and focus your attention there.
• If you're in a waiting room, observe the people in the room and notice the interactions of people.
• Meditate or listen to calming music.

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How to Love Yourself

Designing a passionate life includes unconditional love for yourself. When you love yourself no matter what is occurring in your life, you are able to make decisions from your essential self rather from your mind or ego. The decision will be based on your truth rather than on the emotion that your mind is experiencing.

This sounds like a great idea and one that most of us would like to do, and I know that life happens and it is easy to get caught up in the routine, the drama, and the energy of those around us and forget to show love to ourselves.

For me, the signs that this is happening is when I find myself growling at life and/or people, I'm tired, I don't feel energized by life, I feel disconnected from family, and I'm frankly not excited about life. These are all signals to me, to engage in some self-love activities. What are your signals that you're not feeding your essential self?

How to Embrace Self-Love

• Make a list of the things that you absolutely love to do. These things can range from the very small to the very large. Pick two or three items on your list and see how to incorporate them into your every day.
• Speak with family and friends about the things you love to do. This connects you to the energy of the tings you love and to your essential self and it energizes you. Put your whole heart into the conversation and share your energy with those around you.
• Ask your family and friends to share what they love with you. Their energy is contagious and you will be energized by their excitement. You never know when a new idea will be born out of a conversation such as this. You may discover something about your family and friends that you didn't know.
• Listen to music that inspires, uplifts, and energizes you.

These methods will raise your awareness to the things that you do love and will reconnect you to what you enjoy in life and you will start to notice a shift in your energy. You will notice that you are much more relaxed and at peace. You are feeding your essential self, which is at the core of who you are. Staying in this energy will help you to make decisions in favor of your passions because they feed your essential self.

Try each of these methods and notice the difference in how you feel. After you try them, or create some methods of your own, pick the methods that work best for you. Start living a passionate life now. Sign up for my free PDD report and find out what else you can do.