Designing a Passionate Life

Using Your Own Fear to Your Advantage

Designing a passionate life and creating life balance is easier when you turn your fear to your advantage. Unchecked fear can sap you of your energy. It can drain you until there is nothing left.  Fear is a very powerful energy. When you learn to harness the energy of your fear and use it to your advantage by changing the way you think and by taking action, you become unstoppable.

How do You Use Your Time?

Designing a passionate life and creating life balance includes effective use of your time. You only have so much time to work with in a day. You and I both know this to be true, but how often have you really looked at your day and how you spend your time? You use time to live passionately with your family and friends, to earn a living at what you love, to be of service to others, and the list goes on and on. You have so many choices on how to spend your time that it becomes a balancing act to spend your time wisely.

How to Determine What Actions to Take

Designing a passionate life and creating life balance requires that you take action. You must be clear about your destination, visualize that destination, and then take action. It isn't going to happen without any form of action. It's really easy to take action and then find out later on that you are no closer to your destination than you were before. Action for the sake of action is not what you are after. You must take the most effective actions that move you closer to your destination.

What's Your Level of Belief in Your Passions?

Designing a passionate life and creating life balance requires that you see yourself living your passions. Take a moment and actually visualize yourself living one of your passions. What does it feel like? What do you see? What are you doing? What are the signals to you that you are living your passions? Can you see yourself actually living it?

How to Maximize Your Energy

Desigining a passionate life and creating life balance requires that you maximize your energy. You only have so much energy to put into the actions you take in your life. Every decision you make either increase or decrease your energy. This includes the not only the actions you take but also the people in your life.

Recognizing Your Choices

Designing a passionate life and creating life balance is a result of recognizing and making choices from one moment to the next. After you have a clear vision of what your life looks like when you are fully living your passions, you make choices that affect the outcome of your vision.

You are bombarded with distractions, information, opportunities, and decisions constantly throughout your day. The best use

Staying on the Most Direct Route

Designing a passionate life and creating life balance is a journey and like any journey is much faster if you go in a straight line from point A to point B. I'm sure that you have experienced that life doesn't always work that way. The route to destination

Stepping into Your Power

Designing a passionate life and creating life balance requires you to step into your power. I know that the word power brings up a lot of stuff for many people. Before you stop reading let me define what I mean by power. I'm defining power to consist of three main elements, clarity, decision making ability, and action. Without these three elements, you will have a difficult time stepping into your power. Let's take...

Watching Our Parents Grow Older

Designing and a passionate life creates life balance and deepens family connections. I recently saw an online journal that touched me so deeply that I want to share it with you at the end of this post. It is the story of a young man's journey through the later years of his father's life. It probably touched me very deeply because my father died 2 years ago and I remember my journey with him in his last few years.

What Happens When You Live Your Passions?

Designing a passionate life creates life balance and an overflowing life. When you follow your passions, the rest of your life blooms and unfolds in ways you could never imagine. It isn't always easy, but it is much more fun, than living a passionless and boring life. I like to watch the show on the Food Network called "Chefography" because the stories about the chefs on the Food Network are fascinating. If you want to be inspired to live your passions, watch this show.