InCouragements Insight
Passion = Purpose
Passion – boundless enthusiasm; intense emotion compelling action; to lively or eager interest in or admiration for a proposal, cause, or activity.
As you start this New Year ask yourself these questions:
1) What am I intense about in life?
2) What am I full of enthusiasm about?
3) What compels me to act on with great eagerness?
So my next question to you, are you actually participating in these passions? If not, ask yourself why? Is it fear, procrastination, lack of finances? WHAT IS IT? If you do not know what this is figure it out, and once you have started a plan so that you can pursue your passion. I ask you all these questions because your passion usually leads to your purpose.
Let’s use me for an example, most of you know I care about people, and I love to encourage them in whatever way I can through words, advice, money, giving. I just love to see people feel empowered and work through the adversities of life, and I love to assist with this. So, through me and God’s conversation I realized I needed to become a Psychologist, I knew I needed to return to school and receive my Masters. I took action applied for school and I am currently in my second semester of school working towards that purpose.. Once I graduate and pass the state testing, I will have my practice inside my coffee café where I can serve my community of people, who have never had some sort of counseling. I now know where I’m headed and I feel secure in this and not wandering from thing to thing.
The great motivational speaker Zig Ziglar says some of us wander around our whole lives going from one thing to another, because we have no clear purpose of what we are destined to do. God is the only clear way to understand what our purpose is in life. So have a conversation with him and see what he might reveal.
Challenge: I have two challenges for you this week:
1) Think about what you are passionate about, and see how it fits with your purpose in life.
2) Create a vision board, and place your favorite quotes, scriptures, pictures of places you want to travel to one day. Place words of things you might want to become one day ex: Doctor, Entrepreneur etc. or places words of how you want o feel ex: Happy, Fulfilled, Success, Patience. Put pictures of tangible things you desire (I have a picture of my Bentley that Taylor will buy me one day) seriously God has no problem with us desiring things. Once you have completed the board sit back and see how the items, words and pictures on the board fit into your purpose. Also create the same vision board for your children. If you need some assistance with this please contact me.
Quote for today: “Find your passion and allow God to direct you to your purpose.”
Mechell Bridges
Scripture: And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. Habakkuk 2:2
Have an Awesome Week and Be InCouraged!
Mechell
Sunday, February 7, 2010
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Thanks for this...“Find your passion and allow God to direct you to your purpose.” Thinking about and working on this daily...
ReplyDeleteSo many things work together and for me, I feel that it will be very much like solving a puzzle, you know, once you find those one or two key pieces - everything else starts to fit.