Tag: Mindset

    Finding your passion

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    Need Help Finding Your Passion?

    It’s a common refrain that you should “Do what you love, and the money will follow.” In fact, someone even wrote a book by that name!
    But not everyone knows what it is they love that they could build a business around. It’s easy if you’re Tiger Woods, and you’ve been passionate about golf since the age of three. If only it was so easy for everyone to find their passion!
    Think you have no passion? Well, I promise, you’re passionate about something.

    Here’s a little exercise to help you find it.

    Just think about these three things:

    What movies do you really like?
    What music do you listen to all the time?
    What food do you most like to eat?

    Maybe you really got into the Terminator movies when you were a kid, or the Star Wars trilogy. Maybe that’s something you’re really passionate about. Do a quick Internet search on either of these movie titles — or the name of your favorite movie —and you’ll find a ton of sites on the topic, I promise.
    You’ll find fan pages, fan forums, movie reviews, Youtube satires and knock-offs, gossip about the actors, directors, and writers, and of course, merchandise galore. The list is practically endless.
    Just go through some of the sites you find, and see if there’s not something related to your favorite move that strikes you, something that makes you sit up and say, “Wow! That has always fascinated me!”

    How about music? Maybe there’s a band you follow, a band you really like. You have all their albums, you see them when they come to town and play.
    That’s one of your passions. Dig a little deeper, and find out more about the members of the band, about their history, their upbringing. What got them into music? Why do they play the genre they play? What do they do when they’re not making music or touring?
    The more you learn about the musicians you love to listen to, the closer you’ll be to finding one of your passions.

    Now think about food. Everyone has to eat, right? But not everyone likes the same foods, and people around the world eat such a huge variety of foods, it’s mind-boggling. Maybe you really like Italian food, or vegetarian foods, or seafood. Do you like to cook your own food? Grow your own vegetables? Catch your own lobsters and crabs? Or maybe you’re more the sort to go out to restaurants? Have you been to all the chain restaurants? How about all the locally owned mom & pop restaurants in your area that serve your favorite dish?

    Think you could find something you’re passionate about with all that opportunity? I bet you can, if you just dig a little.
    I guarantee you there’s something in your life you’re passionate about. If you haven’t found it yet, you might just have to work at it a little bit.

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    What is your life purpose?

     

    A Guest Post by Aline Boundy of  Aline Boundy of Align with Your Purpose Align With Your Purpose       

     

     About Aline Boundy 

     

     

     

    What is Your Life Purpose?

    To be clear about your Life Purpose is to put down the foundation for future growth.
    So the sooner you become clear, the better your results will be in EVERY area of your life.

    But how do you actually find your purpose? And how do you go about Aligning With Your Purpose?

    This is a question many people struggle with. For some of us, it means dealing with issues of
    self-esteem which keep us from believing the potential we all have inside.
    Others succumb to the belief that you have to go and get a job to pay the bills to look after
    the family. And somewhere along the way, the dreams you had when you were younger fade away.
    Life becomes a treadmill of get up, go to work, come home exhausted and in all probability
    not feeling very fulfilled by your day.

    And all because you’re feeling stuck or even trapped by commitments you have made to your family
    …check out the following and see if any of them feel familiar.

    Some Tell-Tale Signs That You’re NOT Aligned With Your Purpose:
    • It’s hard to motivate yourself to get up in the mornings
    • You are stuck in a job where you feel undervalued
    • You are frustrated with yourself because you keep making the same mistakes over and over again
    • You’d like to quit your job, but who will pay the bills?

    And yet, you have a sense that there is more to life than just “making a living.” You long for
    a sense of personal fulfillment, the feeling that you are doing something which makes a difference.

    You can remember the dreams you had as a child, or teenager, when it was exciting to anticipate how
    your life might turn out – where you’d go, who you’d meet and what you’d do.

    You probably didn’t at that stage think of who you would be, or more accurately who you would become,
    but you did have a sense of what you enjoyed doing and what gave you pleasure.

    What if you were told that all the answers you need were already inside you? That you don’t have to
    go on a quest fraught with danger in order to uncover them? And that it’s actually much easier to
    connect with your source of inner guidance than you might have thought?

    If any of these reasons resonate with you, but you don’t know where to start, check out the amazing
    Happiness Workshop here.

    ABOUT Align With Your Purpose

    You deserve to live a life aligned with your true purpose, sometimes called your soul purpose, by:

    • learning how to connect with your higher self

    • trusting its messages as you face life’s challenges

    • embracing change rather than fighting it or fleeing from it

    • nurturing your dreams as you learn to dream big

    • letting go of limiting beliefs and blocks

    • celebrating every step along your path to purpose!

     

    Remember, “The Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins with a Single Step.”
    Are you ready to take that step today?

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    Think like an entrepreneur

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    Gaining control of your mind is the most challenging but also the most rewarding thing you can possibly do. Why? Because once you learn how to direct your mind, you can guide it to help you achieve anything that you fully commit to.

    You do this through mind conditioning. I also like to call it mental programming. Everyone has been programmed to behave in a certain way. Some people have been entrepreneurs their entire lives. They were programmed for this type of lifestyle a long time ago. Since you were programmed with the job mentality, you are going to have to reprogram your mind so that you think like the entrepreneur !

    What exactly does this mean? It means that you think of yourself as powerful and resourceful.

     

    • You see yourself as someone who can overcome fears and limitations.
    • You are willing to do what it TAKES to succeed rather than doing what is comfortable or convenient.
    • You take control of your mind so that when challenging situations do arise, you can ignore that voice of worry and summon your voice of strength.

     

     

    How? Through repetition.

    Repetition is the first law of learning and there are literally thousands of authors and speakers out there who are more than willing to share their stories with you. The more you listen to their stories and apply the concepts to your life, the greater the change you can make in your life.

    So take action today and start reading about successful entrepreneurs and the challenges and triumphs they had in their business!

    To find out more about being an entrepreneur, feel free to try the Be Your Own Boss quiz, find out more here.

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