Chase your passion-12 simple steps

Dreams are never bigger than the reality. You got to believe that!

Distant dreams, sometimes seem to be difficult to catch! Prepare yourself correctly, no dreams are too far to catch. Let’s chase our dreams!

Chinese philosopher Confucius (551–479 BCE) once said, “ Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life”. Passion is what you love, what you dream! If you find a job you love, then you will perform better. You perform then on the job out of your inner affection, love and superior interest, that terns you more successful and make you feel like performing your interest not a job. By this, one can achieve more success in the job or career. This is called passion job.

Unfortunately, we might not have always a passion job to work on and get paid for that in our country! All we got to do, we need to find our passion and chase it to deal it, rightly.

What exactly is Passion? Passion is something you love, that originated in the inner depth of heart. Accomplishing that, you get a taste of satisfaction and will be eager to do it again.

The interesting thing is that, many of us even do not aware or know what our passion is. We sometimes think about ourselves to drink couple of tea and snacks, watching movies etc., But in reality, this is a leisure time work, Passion is little different, like when question of satisfaction comes in, its almost related to doing something for living of without living, accomplishing which gives a taste of satisfaction.

How can we find and chase that love or passion!

Passion often, followed by job which interns followed by Need. Professional in our country, interestingly, more often run towards different career direction after completing basic education; with a fear of being un-employed, so get a job, settle down in life and pass on. Looking after desire becomes lesser important than to find and get a job.

Need drives them towards job and passion. Lack of satisfaction often, leads to find out what is missing, that is actually what you love to do. At some point of the life, need drives us to search our real passion, pass some time with that and if clicked greatly, then choose it for the rest of the life.

This article is aim to highlight a glimpse of how to find passion, and then how to deal with it.

Finding our passion: 6 simple steps

1. Document it

2. Life balancing work list

3. Check own competencies, list down lacking

4. Competencies training

5. Consider financial benefits & draw backs

6. Check Ethics and values

Deal with your passion: 6 more simple steps

7. Keep the evening free

8. Equipment and tools gather

9. Work harder

10. Monitor and evaluate, get feedback (stress level)

11. Passion and Job balance

12. You are your boss

Finding our passion:

1. Document it: Write down your loved things, express your self to you! Write it down in your diary or on piece of paper. Remember your childhood dreams, write those down also. Make the list carefully, ask yourself again and again and keep writing. Check and cut short the list. Finally, prioritized the listed passion.

2. Life balancing work list: In your present state of your life, does above list go with? Or need to balance? Make a list of balancing works, if you need to do, to take care of your passion.

3. Check own competencies, list down lacking: At present state of your skill level and education, taking care of your passion does it need to be more skilled in some areas or need some training to better take care of your passion? List it down.

4. Competencies training: Check out places and cost of training.

5. Consider financial benefits & draw backs: Consider financial outcome and cost of training. By taking care of your passion, if there are some financial benefits, its good, then in some points of your life ahead, you may consider taking care of passion for a full-time job.

6. Check Ethics and values: Is it legally, morally and ethically all right to take care and chase the passion?

Deal with your passion

7. Keep the evening free: Give your time for your passion, after the office hours. Instead of lying on couch and surfing TV channels or passing time on Netflix or in the internet/social media, keep the evening free for your passion work.

8. Equipment and tools gather: Train yourself to better follow your passion, which may give you financial gain at some point, arrange equipment, may be a faster computer or gardening tools or writing tables, chairs, table lamp or buy a guitar or musical instrument or cake making oven and utensils whatever equipment and tools you may need.

9. Work harder: Yes, have fun and work harder with your passion, you will love to work harder for your loved work!

10. Monitor and evaluate, get feedback (stress level): Check and monitor your stress level for coping with the passion or loved work. Ask your family or friends or loved ones about how you are doing with this new task?

11. Passion and Job balance: Once you’re on, fully on with passion, ask yourself, how to make the balance between day time job and evening time passion work? Evaluate critically, make comparison of financial outcome.

12. You are your boss: Decide, you are your boss! You can do it, simply.