Designing a passionate life includes developing daily practices that move you towards your life vision. After you are clear about your passions, you need to take action towards living your passions. The actions come with the clarity of vision. You also need to develop daily practices that become habits that strengthen you and continue to move you towards living your passions.
These practices don't have to take a lot of time. There are two main areas that I would suggest you develop daily practices around; mindset and right-action. I think that one of the biggest deterrents to people not living a passionate life is their mindset. The negative head-talk sets in, such as "I can't, I don't know how, I don't know enough". You can fill in the blank with your favorite phrase.
Possible practices to incorporate at the beginning of your day to improve your mindset include:
- Meditation
- Visualization
- Prayer
- Affirmations
- Reading an inspirational quote
- Setting you intention for the day
Right-action includes creating a list of action items that you think are necessary to take during the day. In my experience, when I write the list it is usually much longer than the time in the day that I have available to me. Write the list anyway, then move the items that are just too big for that day, and ask yourself if they can be deferred to another day when you can allocate more time to them. If yes, then put them on your calendar for another day and give them more time.
Then review the list and mark the items that must be done that day due to an impending deadline of some sort. It also helps to write down an estimated time of completion for each item and see if these items will fit into the time you have available for the day. If you have time to act on other items, ask the question of each remaining item on the list: "Will this move me closer to or farther away from my passion?" If it moves you closer then determine if it truly has to be done that day. If it doesn't move you closer, ask yourself why it is on your list in the first place. You only have so much time and you want to maximize how you use your time.
Creating the right mindset for designing a passionate life is just as important as taking the right-actions. These two items will serve you well, keep you focused and put you on the path of designing a passionate life. Take action now, and sign up for my free PDD report.
