~7 Reasons Why..."Knowing & Living Your Passion Is Important"

In life we all have natural talents and skills that we use to make a living and build a life.  However, one of the most skillful talents you have may be one you are not passionate about. Here are 7 reasons why knowing and living your passion is important.

1. It Builds Confidence - when you're passionate about something you're confident in doing it and carrying out tasks associated with it.  If you fail, you're ready to get back up and go at it again.  Passion gives a natural level of confidence to and about the thing it's associated with. 

 2. You Never Stop Growing- passion encourages you to learn and gain knowledge in a specific thing.  The desire to gather all the information you can about what your passionate about is inevitable.  You never stop growing in your area of passion.

 3. It Delivers Profit -someone once told me years ago, use your talents and knowledge as gifts to edify and profit.  If you're passionate about something it becomes a talent in which you harbor.  Passions can be a way of life that produces income.

4. It Precedes Happiness - succeed or fail, when you make an attempt to go after , live in, or work with your passion happiness is always the end result.  Even if you fail, your passion drives you to success.

5. You're Being Honest With Yourself- if there is nothing else you know, or unsure of, it's the one thing, or may be several things, you are passionate about.  So the chase and thrill that comes with your journey is rewarding.  Your motives are pure and honest.  If you profit greatly from your passion, the feeling of satisfaction you receive is superior to the amount of profit.

6.  Direction In Your Life Is Established- you know where you are going, or at least where you want to go.  Knowing and following your passion helps you not miss your target.  The last thing you want to do in life is walk around in circles without a sense of direction

7.   Survival - perhaps one of the most important reasons on this list.  Alexander Hamilton said "if you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything".  Living your passion gives you something to live for.  It can be a sense of security, because of that, you stand for what's apart of you. Do you know and are living your passion? 

Why is your passion important to you?

Comments

[Eric Hamilton]

Great article...
I agree...
The problem is most people don't know their passion besides eating and sleeping... lol...

If more people knew their passions, then we would have a happier more productive society...

[His Majesty's Favorite]

@Eric, the only way to know your passion is to know yourself. Sometimes people don't discover what it is they are passionate about until much later in life.

[Tia]

I totally agree. Dancing keeps me grounded, focused, healthy and completely intune with my physiclal and mental well being. Thank God dance has always been apart of my life and not something I found much later. Although I choose not to peform and dance full time, it gives me the motivation and discipline to stay focused in all of the areas of my life.

[Trudy (windmill perception)]

I think pursuing a passion is heavily discouraged as to why some people run away from it. It puts you outside of the norm and you crush the status quo when you know who you are and are passionate about it, despite success or failure, and keep working it it. Passion and vision is the essence of who a "whole" person is. It is unfortunate that so many people are afraid of not being "accepted" so they never seek within themselves to find what it is that can move and motivate them.

Great post.

[His Majesty's Favorite]

@Tia, when dancing is a natural thing for someone they tend to fill themselves with so much joy from it. By it being your passion, makes it even more enjoyable.

@Trudy,because of that very thing, there are people who suffer from not being happy everyday.