This week we’ve been talking about how your calling flows from who we are. It flows from our strengths. It also flows from our passions. To be passionate about something just means that we care deeply about it.
When we connect our greatest strengths with our deepest passions, an amazing alignment happens in our life. We will be involved in things that we highly value and we’ll be amazingly good at it.
Discovering our Passions
For many of us though, we’ve buried our dreams and passions for so long, we don’t know what we’re passionate about any more. Maybe we’ve believed that it’s not realistic to be involved in something about which we’re passionate. And so we’ve given up even trying.
To find our calling, we need to rediscover our passions. So how do we connect or discover our passions? Here are a few things you can try
- What are some life experiences that have affected you? Perhaps you care a lot about helping others avoid or make it through a similar experience.
- What breaks your heart? Perhaps you want to provide help to people in this area.
- Start with, “I think I”m passionate about …” Then ask “why?” And then ask it again. Become your typical three year old with the “why’s.” Somewhere down the chain of “why’s” is the root of what you really care about.
Pulling it All Together
When you connect your strengths with your passions, there is only one more element you need to pull in to discover your calling, which is a meaningful impact.
When we combing our strengths and our passions with something that is meaningful to us, we’ve found something about which we can build our whole life. This could involve helping adoptions go smoother. It could involve developing people. It could involve creating beautiful art. I could involve problem solving. There’s no end to the possibilities.
What about you? What are you passionate about?
