Each Person must take
responsibility for their current situation in life. No matter how
bad of an experience you may have gone through, the only way to
truly create change is by accepting responsibility. The reasoning
behind this is simple. You can only change what you control. By
accepting responsibility for where you are currently in your life,
you remove the blame from your parents, your low paying job, your
circumstances and any other excuses, valid or not. The blame sits
squarely on your shoulders. Once you have accepted the blame
you've created an opportunity and environment for yourself
to make the necessary changes in your life. An excuse is the best
friend of your worst enemy. Once
you've eliminated all excuses the world is yours to explore,
and let the exploration start from within.
The idea of following your dream
or doing what makes you happy is often difficult to imagine. We
often feel that our dreams are childish and our talents are only
meant to be enjoyed for recreational purposes and for the most part
our work should be just that, work. We look at working as some
tedious task that has to be done in order to maintain a lifestyle.
Most of our parents, the school system, and society in general
teach us this lesson throughout our lives. We are taught to work
within a system. We attend school from set times that almost
resemble a 9 to 5 lifestyle, which helps contribute to a post
scholastic pattern.
We study the same core courses as all of our other peers around the
world and for the most part do not get to do much career or talent
exploration until our later school years and even then our talents
and abilities are downplayed. We view our God given talents as non
pertinent, something extra that we are capable of doing. We even
call these activities extracurricular, meaning they only exist
outside of our regular core curriculum therefore they almost do not
matter in the larger scheme of things. We are graded on how well we
retain information, relevant or not, rather than our ability to
create new information. Society accepts us when we fit in and
ridicules us when we appear to be different, or even think
differently than others. This jaded outlook on life hinders us from
achieving personal success in our lives.
We are taught to devalue what
really holds meaning to ourselves as individuals at an early age.
We live unfulfilled lives, almost with an unapologetic attitude
about our views on living life successfully. We go through life
thinking that this is "just the way life is supposed to
be" without ever attempting to live in any other
manner. We suppress our creativity and eventually grow out of it as
if it was something that has been detrimental to our lives.
So how do we escape this pattern?
How can we regain our sense of uniqueness and creativity and begin
on our trail to accomplishment? The first step is to identify your
passion correctly. We are often too vague about what it is that we
are passionate about doing, which can lead to poor outcomes and
unhappiness in our chosen field. Just because you love to draw
doesn't mean that you should become an architect or own an art
gallery. If you are not interested in the details of knowing
certain regulations and codes that go into designing a home that
career may not be for you. If you have no interest in the ups and
downs of a small business owner then maybe owning an art gallery
isn't for you either. Identifying your particular area of interest
can be a difficult task. Here are a few questions that you should
ask yourself to help uncover your true passion.
