How To Find Your Passion In Life

Hi, folks. How are you? Welcome to my Tuesday afternoon Live. My name is Nick the poet, and I am a creative exercise and business coach here at Cadre. I'm also currently running the Cadre running club, so please check out our Facebook group if you'd like to learn more. And it's not exclusively for runners. It's for anyone interested in movement. It could be walking, it could be just if you're looking for encouragement. And I have a new video on there today about stretches for the hip. So, anyways, the thing that I'm here to talk about today is finding your passion and purpose in life.

At some point in our lives, we've all asked ourselves the question, what do I want to do with my life? You may ask this question every day. You may have not thought about it for years. You may be too busy to think about it. Maybe just in those quiet moments, that still, small voice, you know, kind of sends you little, little thoughts about it. And it's a tough question to answer. And for many of us, the thought of finding our passion can seem daunting. But it doesn't have to be. It can be easy to get started.

And so I just want to give you some things to think about, some possible actions to take. And really, we have four pretty simple ones. So, piece of advice number one is to follow your interests. If you've seen some of my other lives, you've heard me talk about following your bliss, right? And this doesn't necessarily mean quitting your job and running off into the sunset. It could be finding that bliss at work. It could be asking even in difficult situations. As my friend Fuzzaro says, what do I love about this?

Right? There's a lot of ways that we can follow our interests. Given the parameters of our life and the structure that we currently have set up, there's still room to examine this. So if there's something that you've always been interested in, I think there's a good chance that it could be your passion. I believe there's a reason that thought keeps coming up, you know, and you could possibly leverage that activity into a career, or it could just, that purpose, you know, maybe hiking, maybe cooking, maybe gardening, those elements could, you know, lead to a better work life balance.

We don't know what it is, but it's always, I think, good to follow those little nudges, you know, whether it's from our subconscious or from the universe or whatever way that you want to think about it. Hey, Katie Donovan. Great to see you on the live. And I'm going to give you a shout out at the end because I know you have an awesome live coming up along with some of our other Cadre creators who are all following their passion in one way or another. And I think that's a great part about the community that we're building here is finding that passion and purpose in life.

So follow those interests, you know, follow them and see what happens. So if you're a natural leader, you might want to consider a career in management or teaching, or if you're good with numbers, a career in finance or accounting might be a good fit. Now, these are obvious examples, but whatever you do, just follow those interests and see what happens. So my second piece of advice is to consider your skills and talents. So another way to find your passion is to consider your skills and talents.

What are you naturally good at? And I think it can be really good to ask your friends, your coworkers what you're really good at. Because sometimes we have this picture of what our talents are and others around us may see talents that we have that we have no idea about. So ask them, you know, and what comes really naturally and easily to you, you know, and if you can identify your strengths, you may be able to find that career, that purpose, that passion within it. So just a couple of things to think about there.

Consider those skills and talents. There's also a lot of great resources. We now have a coaching department. You may want to get a coach and talk to someone about how you can find your passions because everything that we want is on the other side of that fear. Thank you so much, flagship, for mentioning that. So many people do struggle with this topic, you know, and I'm someone who's definitely struggled with this topic of finding passion and purpose as well, you know, and I am always, you know, searching for that, that passion and purpose.

And there's a great quote from a philosopher named Rainer Maria Rilke who says, live the question and you will grow into the answer. So if you begin this quest to try to find your passion or purpose, then I believe you will be guided to the people that you need to meet. But we have to step into that. We have to be a little bit bold and say, I'm trying to find my passion and purpose, and I believe that the universe is going to meet us halfway and help us with that. So piece of advice number three is to be open to new experiences in the twelve step movement.

There's this thing called contempt prior to investigation, and it's basically closing our mind off to an experience before it happens. And so we want to try to be as open minded as possible. Now, this is really difficult. I consider myself very open minded, but sometimes I'll notice that I'm really not that open minded. I'm closed off. I think I know what's going to happen. I think I know what needs to happen. I think I know what this experience is going to be. But if we can really take that time to be open, and I think some things that can help with that.

Our meditation is connection with others and is journaling is all of these different, you know, self care activities that can help us be open to new experiences. And sometimes we just need to step into that uncertainty with some boldness, because on the other side of trying those new experiences, we're gonna have growth. And it might be that these. These things that we don't want to experience, where these resistances come up, that we really need to go down that path. Maybe you're afraid of public speaking, but you need to do it because your purpose and passion may lie in that.

And it seems like a lot of the time that our purpose and passions are connected to these resistances that we have. It's interesting, you know, so something, too, that I think could be really helpful is piece of advice number four, which is to talk to other people. And I think this one might be the most important one. I already mentioned that we want to talk to others and figure out what our skills and our talents are, because they're going to tell us things that we don't know. But, you know, start talking and telling people about your passions, and especially those who have similar interests to you, and you can start building community around it.

Because our purpose and passion does not exist in a. In a, what would be called a vacuum. It exists for, I think, the service and benefit of others. So it makes sense that we want to start talking about that and being open to these new experiences and new people. And even if they don't have any groundbreaking advice for you, just talking about your interests with others can help clarify things and give you a better sense of what direction that you should be headed in. So these are just a few simple ideas that you can start thinking about.

And I've made it sound like a big quest to find your passion and purpose. But I love this quote that sometimes we're rushing around trying to find our passion and purpose, and maybe if we just sat still for a moment, it would come up from behind us and say, hey, I'm your passion. And so that's definitely something I need help with. Because I always like to run around and try to make things happen. But sometimes we need to just relax a little bit and maybe our passion and purpose will show up in that way.

So don't let it feel like a daunting task. Let it be easy. Follow your interests, consider your skills and talents, be open to new experiences and talk to other people and see what happens. I would love to hear about your experiences. You could email me at nhanson. That's h a n s e nadre IO and just wanted to tell you about some other awesome lives. They're going to be coming up this week. We have the root of jealousy with Doctor Carrie Mankey. We have Ken addicts take opiates after surgery with Evan Lieberman.

We have national first responders day with kick, Katie Donovan. And of course, always look for Monday motivation with Luke Winlet. So that's my live for you today. I hope you got something from it. Remember, live the question and you will grow into the answer. I wishing you peace, positivity and prosperity while still acknowledging that we have a lot of work to do together. Okay, bye.