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.

Faith and Courage Go Hand in Hand

I don't know the how of my life.  Focusing on the how - how am I going to accomplish a certain task or project - only gets in the way of getting it done.  What I know is that my faith and my open mind allow Infinite Intelligence, Infinite Spirit or God the opportunity to express more fully and freely in, through, for and as me.

It takes courage to step forward, not look back and stay out of fear.  Being able to stay anchored in faith is highly important, especially when things seem challenging or appear to be going haywire. 

Gratitude for What Is So Provides Fuel for Living my Life Passions

Breathing deeply and being grateful for what is happening in my life enables natural, creative ideas to flow more easily.  Being in the creative flow requires my staying present and open.  The more present I am, the more ideas come to me and urge me to write them down.  

In addition, staying present to living my life passions enhances the flow of ideas.  When I stay focused on my top life passions, I am just that:  focused, open to creative ideas, highly productive and very grateful for all that I am experiencing in my life. 

When things don't appear to be working or going the way I thought they would, a little patience soon reveals why what I had wanted to do wasn't the right action step to take.  The Universe is so much smarter than I am with my limited view of things and events.

Thankfully, I choose to allow Infinite Spirit to present those opportunities that expand me beyond my comfort zone.  And, not all opportunities are easy to embrace.

When I remain open to those opportunities, I am saying Yes to Life, and, I am saying Yes to the unknown.  Being open to step into and experience the unknown is embracing faith in a powerful way.

When you embrace the unknown through your faith, your possibilities expand and your creativity is enhanced as well.  This is what enables those who choose to live their heart's desires to move forward with confidence and momentum.  Life flows much more easily.  Action steps taken are energizing and enlivening.  It is as though the hand of the Infinite is blessing you and smoothing your pathway forward.

Be Bold and Choose to Live Your Life Passions Today, not Some day 

Your creativity flows most powerfully in the Now.  So, consciously choose right now to live a meaningful life, a more joyful life.  Choose to live your life passions!    

What Happens When You Reclaim Your Power? 

Reclaiming your power essentially happens when you decide to be more engaged in your life.  If you choose to be on autopilot or caught in the past or focused on the future, you most likely are not expressing the joyfulness that happens when you are present and focused in the Now.

Reclaiming your power definitely enables you to live a much more passionate life.  When you are engaged in your life, you can more easily focus your energy on what you want to experience, you can live your true life passions.

Reclaiming Your Power Happens When:

1. you shift your point of view
2. you let go of your need to be right
3. you let go of all false ideas, false beliefs and false concepts
4. you forgive yourself, and
5. you love yourself unconditionally
6. you forgive others, and
7. you love others unconditionally
8. you search within your heart for answers to all issues, conflicts, hurts and mis-steps along your spiritual life path
9. you appreciate your magnificence
10. you choose to express fully the unlimited good the Universe seeks to give to you
11. you stretch beyond your comfort zone
12. you consciously choose to raise your energy level and do it
13. you consciously choose to create opportunities for you to be, do and have more good in your life
14. you consistently focus your energy on achieving your heart's desires
15. you keep your vision of your heart's desires visible - in view on 3 X 5 cards, or however you choose - to remind you where you are going
16. you stay present in the Now so that new opportunities come easily into your life
17. you stay open to your unlimited good by thanking the Universe for all the good you already have
18. you choose to be joyful, grateful, loving and loved.

Choose to Reclaim Your Power by Living Your True Life Passions 

The Universe or Infinite Spirit loves you unconditionally, wants you to live a rich, full life, and, most of all, wants you to be happy, joyful and fulfilled.

When you are happy, joyful and fulfilled, you are taking the necessary action steps that lead you to your destiny and enable you to reclaim your power and to live your true life passions.

Janet Attwood, co-author of The Passion Test The Effortless Path to Discovering Your Destiny, is presenting The Passion Test^tm at the BEST Life Intensive being held in Phoenix, Arizona on September 7th & 8th in the Phoenix Convention Center. 

To attend free of charge, you must be registered by referral.  Normal cost for the event is $1295.00.  Other speakers include Dr. M. T. Morter, Jr., Dr. Ted Morter, Dr. Sue Morter, Dr. Lori Beaver, Dr. Roland Phillips, Dr. Barbara De Angelis, and other speakers on many topics related to health, healing, B.E.S.T., the power of the mind, your financial freedom, living your life passions, the law of attraction, and learning to update emotional memories which brings a new sense of peace to your life.

If you are interested in attending, please post a comment on this post and I will give you instructions on how to register for free. 

This is truly a life changing event that will bring many new insights that provide a solid foundation for living a vibrant, healthy, joyful, passionate, prosperous and meaningful life.

For additional insights gained from attending a previous BEST Life Intensive, please read my post for May 12, 2007 about Creating Miracles With The Power of Intention.

Observing People Living Their Life Passions

When you encounter people living their true life passions what do you notice about them?  Do they share any characteristics or traits that you can choose to add to your life practices?

There are several top traits that I have observed of people who have chosen to live their true life passions.  These top traits include the following:

1. The pursuit of excellence in whatever they do
2. Staying focused on what matters most to them
3. Doing what they truly love to do
4. Adapting their action steps when necessary
5. Not allowing themselves to get sidetracked
6. Being highly creative, especially when challenges occur
7. Taking rest and relaxation breaks to re-energize themselves
8. Being infectiously enthusiastic about living life, and
9. Remaining true to their inner vision for themselves.

What Can You Learn From People Living Their True Life Passions? 

Do you know anyone who is living his or her true life passions?  Take a moment to write down their names and mark down those traits they have shown in the above list. 

Can you think of other traits that could be added to this list that are often possessed by people living their true life passions?

Intuition - An Important Feedback Strategy

Do all people who live their life passions have the above listed traits?  Perhaps not every trait is part of their natural life expression.  Those who are most successful in staying on track with living their life passions remain open to change and allow their intuition to guide them forward on their life journey.

By incorporating this important feedback strategy, people who are successfully living their life passions move forward more easily and confidently.  They experience more joy and fulfillment as well as fewer serious challenges to being able to live their true life passions.