How to find your passion!

It appears a whole industry has been created on helping people quit their jobs and follow their passion.  I think that can be dangerous considering people might actually take that advice only to discover their passion doesn’t pay the bills.  

I do believe that if people were to discover their passion, performing a job that they are passionate about would create more opportunities for the individual and be far more lucrative as well.  I also firmly believe that everyone has been blessed with a God given talent, a unique talent that they are better than anyone else at.  

The big question is how do you find your unique talent?  It’s not that hard actually.  

Your unique talent is that talent that you perform that inspires others to act.  It’s that talent that you perform so well that you make it look easy.  So easy that people around you begin to think to themselves “That’s cool! I want to do that too!” only to discover when they try it, that it’s not as easy as they thought.

For instance, I mentioned in a previous article that I am putting together a video course on goal.  I went to the videographer to film my introduction and the end product was absolutely terrible.  I’m not all that comfortable with talking to a camera so I had to schedule another take.

The second time, John Bielinski, the owner of the company happened to be there and began to give me pointers.  He basically took my presentation and showed me how he would do it. He did such an amazing job using my presentation, my material, you would have thought it was in fact his course.  

He made it look so easy because that is his unique talent.  After he did that, I was inspired to do it better.  But when I tried, I wasn’t nearly as good.  That’s not my unique talent.  He made it look so easy I began to believe I could do it as well as him.  In reality I couldn’t but thanks to him it’s 100 times better than what it was.

OK.  Now think about something that you do that comes easy to you that you have received compliments for or inspired other people with.  That’s going to move you towards what you’re truly passionate about.  

Once you discover what that is, begin using it to help others (don’t even think about the potential for monetizing it yet).  Sharpen your skill first and take that unique talent to a level that you have never gone before.  Once you do that, you will have a better understanding if you can combine your unique talent with a job or to create a business that will allow you to do what you were meant to do for the rest of your life!