One of my life passions is writing and inspiring others to move forward on their spiritual journey through life.  In doing so, I am easily living and being one of my true life passions.  And I am easily raising my energy level at the same time.  It becomes a win-win experience for myself and my readers.

Each day I find a meaningful quote that inspires me to take a broader or more inclusive look at life.  Having done this on an irregular basis over the last several years, I now do it daily.  This creates an energy boost for me and impacts my daily activities.

The following was sent out earlier today to my email list who truly enjoy receiving these Daily Wisdom Quotes and Affirmations each day.  Enjoy and let these few words enliven you in some special way.

Daily Wisdom Quote                                                June 30, 2009

Keyes to Wisdom

 

Spiritual Life Coach

Practitioner Emeritus 

 

"Living your life passions is a matter of choice."

Virginia Fischer

Three important questions you must ask when choosing to live your life passions are:

1. Have I allowed anyone or anything to keep me from truly living my life passions?
2. What beliefs have changed me or changed my perception about my being able to live my life passions?
3. Whose life passions am I choosing to live?  Am I really living my life passions?

The Gift of Clarity

Answering the above questions with total honesty is highly necessary if living your life passions is your number one, top priority.  When you get these three questions answered, you are providing yourself with a great gift.  You deserve to have this gift.  It is the gift of clarity.

Mental clarity provides you with the ability to simplify your action steps. It also enables you to focus your energy, make decisions more concisely and more quickly.  In addition, mental clarity makes it possible to discover any action steps that may hinder your progress as you move through the process of living your life passions.

 To be continued

Change is what living a rich, full life is about.  When changes present themselves, you can learn more about who you are and what truly matters most to you.

Going with the flow of change is often the best strategy to follow when you are still discovering the full impact of what is changing in your life.  Sometimes the flow is quite swift and jerky in its unexpected movement.

When change suddenly thrusts itself into your path, you can allow it or resist it.  Resistance causes you to struggle and to feel anxiety if the sands of change shift too quickly.

3 Steps to Keep On Track with Living Your Life Passions

1. Remember to breathe deeply.  Shallow breaths do not provide the oxygen needed to have a clear mind.  Deep breathing allows you to remain calm and to think clearly.
2. Focus on what matters most to you.  Do not allow yourself to become distracted by other people's agendas. Are upcoming choices likely to support your following your life passions?  Continue to choose in favor of living your life passions.
3. Open yourself to learning whatever lessons the change is asking you to make.  The more completely you embrace the lesson without judgment, the less struggle you will experience.  You will then be more resilient and able to focus your energy on achieving and living your true life passions.

One of My Favorite Quotes:

"Whatever you can do

 or dream you can,

begin it.

Boldness has genius, magic

and power in it.

Begin it now."

                                                      Goethe

When you do what you dream about doing, you are stepping out of where you are.  Your energy increases and propels you forward. 

Goethe's words convey great passion for living life fully.  However, he was coaching all of the millions of people who have read the above words to live powerfully, not just fully.  His words, no doubt, have inspired many people to live a much more meaningful and committed life.  Nay, he has inspired many millions of people to live their life passions.

Passion + Vision + Action = Success

One of the things I most enjoy is going to other coach's websites.  Usually, I find something of value by reading over their thoughts, beliefs and ideas.  Today when I went to Chris Wise's site, www.chriswise.com, I was definitely enlivened and engaged.

Is There a Formula for Living Your True Life Passions?

Well, having a formula as stated above simplifies the process greatly.  Without its sister components, Vision and Action, Passion would soon fizzle out.  Passion requires a constructive outlet in order for it to be sustained beyond a brief mental and emotional encounter within one's mind.

Any formula is tempered by:

1. the events and/or experiences you attract into your life,
2. how you handle those events and experiences,
3. how well you stay focused on your Vision,
4. how much perseverance you maintain, and
5. how consistently you safeguard your Vision during the follow through or Action steps. 

Your vision must be clear and of great value to you.  Your why has to be powerful enough to keep you focused.  Focus requires action steps or you soon become easily distracted.

How Valuable Are Distractions?

Distractions answer the following questions:

• Am I really committed to living the life passions I have decided to pursue?
• Do my life passions provide true value to me at the heart level?
• Did I miss something I am really passionate about when I went through The Passion Test^TM process¹ of discovering my top 5 life passions?

In recent months, I've shifted my life passions somewhat, not totally, and a new perspective has emerged in the process.  My emphasis is on the word process, however, as it was not something that could be hurried through.  It took time to evolve and shift. 

As a result, I am much clearer about being focused on writing and on intending to inspire others through both my writing and teaching or speaking.  I am more on purpose and greatly see the value of having gone through this process over the last thirteen months.  

Living my true life passions with the above formula in mind ensures my greater success than without the formula.  It enables me to stay clear about my passions and be focused in the now time frame.  My action steps both lead to and enhance my successfully experiencing more joy and fulfillment in the process of living my true life passions.

Be totally willing to commit to your process of living your true life passions. Your success in doing so will provide you with more joy, fulfillment and true happiness.

 1 The Passion Test^TM process is outlined in previous blog posts and also is derived from the book, The Passion Test the Effortless Path to Discovering Your Destiny by Janet Bray Attwood and Chris Attwood.

 

3 Steps to Honoring Your Life Passions

When you treat your life passions like your family, you are honoring your life passions by doing specific things in a certain way:

1) You pay attention to all that relates to each of your top 5 life passions.  You are focused and easily stay on target.

When you pay attention, you notice what works well and supports your effectively living your life passions.  You also notice what doesn't work well.  When you know what doesn't work well, you are able to keep doing powerfully and effectively what brings you more joy and more fulfillment.

2) You engage your faith factor.  All things are possible when you have the right attitude.

When you focus on what you are passionate about doing, your energy level naturally increases.  As you build your energy level, you easily move through challenges that, in the past, would have stopped you in your tracks.

3) You keep going.  Persistence is a key ingredient in all families who stay integrated and are highly bonded.

When challenges come into your life, take out your Passion Cards, review your top 5 life passions several times daily.  Persistence in focusing on living your true life passions brings you the rewards you deserve and seek to experience.

Commit to treating your life passions like Family.  Nurture them with attention, faith and persistence and your energy will expand way beyond where you currently are.

What Approach Can I Take to Living My Life Passions?

This question brings up an interesting image and useful metaphor.

Close your eyes for a moment and think about having a full plate of food on the table in front of you.  On the plate are several choices:  meat or protein of some kind, salad, vegetables, bread and, perhaps, some dessert.  Your food has an inviting aroma and is ready for you to eat.

The delicious meal before you provides several benefits:

1. it keeps your body satisfied
2. it provides nutrition that keeps your body healthy
3. it has a variety of tastes and textures
4. it provides energy and fuel for your body to function
5. it can be an enjoyable experience depending on how you choose to eat it.

How do you plan to eat your meal?

You could eat it in one bite, (not too likely).  You could start with a bite of protein and add various bites of the other food.  Or, you could choose not to eat at all.

What have you gained or experienced from eating your meal in one bite?  Most likely, you experienced indigestion and didn't have much taste of the variety that was on your plate.  And probably, you received little, if any, nutritional benefit from it.

What have you gained from eating one bite at a time?  Well, you most likely get all five of the above listed benefits depending on how well you chew your food.

Savoring Your Life Passions Enhances the Benefits Gained

Just as you savor your food when you eat it one bite at a time, choose to savor your life passions as you journey toward achieving each one.  Your life passions do matter.  They usually lead you forward to living your life destiny.

Living your life passions usually enables you to live your life with great passion.  Be passionate about savoring your journey as you gracefully and gratefully move forward!

Living and achieving your life passions does matter because when you do so, you can only fully savor and enjoy achieving your life passions when you are in the now.  Staying focused in present time is the only "must have" requirement in order to be able to savor living your life passions.  Enjoy all of your stunning successes!

Pausing My Life Passions

Recently, I experienced a brief, but seemingly long pause in living my life passions.  It happened suddenly and totally without warning.

I had to stop writing on my blog and focus on regaining my health.  And, yes, I used alternative healing techniques, faith, wisdom and my body's natural ability to heal itself to regain my health, strength, focus and clarity.

So, today is the first time I have had the focus to sit down and put my thoughts into words for others to read.

Gratitude On a Daily Basis

Today, and everyday, I verbally express gratitude for all the good that I am currently experiencing in my life.  Often, I write about what I feel most grateful for in my Gratitude Journal.  It is something I choose to remember to be throughout my day. 

I believe gratitude is one of the 7 essentials to living well and living a passionate life.  So, I shall be writing about that in future posts.

 

Choosing to Live My Life Passions Authentically

Choose to live well taking care of all aspects of who you are so that you may truly live a passionate life from within your authentic self.

I gratefully choose to live my life passions meaningfully, joyfully and authentically.