FOLLOWING YOUR PASSIONS WILL BRING YOU JOY
Healthy Wealthy nWise
Patrick Combs is a comedic entertainer, inspirational speaker, and the best-selling author of Major in Success. To him, passion, gifts and joy are inseparable. To go on and on for years doing something you don't truly enjoy will make you sick. Following your passions will bring you pure joy.
Obviously Patrick Combs has had many successes in his life. How did he do it? One step at a time. He'll be the first to tell you that concentrating on too many things at once will produce failure. You have to reach one passion at a time, making it a building block for the next. It all comes down to fear and faith. Fear is thinking something bad might happen without having proof of it. Faith is the opposite. Faith is hoping something will happen without having proof of it.
Have faith in your passions and take one step at a time toward them. Taking those baby steps toward your passions is easier said than done, though. Patrick Combs has had a lot of "shoulds" in his life just as the rest of us do. We all know how it feels when you "should" be doing this but you'd really rather be doing that. Taking steps means prioritizing your shoulds.
Each day, each week, each month, put your "shoulds" in a list. Think about which ones could be done by someone else or could be skipped altogether. Now, replace that "should" with something great, something fun, something that makes you feel passionate. Periodically replace one more "should" in your list with something you'd rather be doing, and before you know it, you'll be living passionately!
Your inner self makes prioritizing your "shoulds" harder than it should be. We all deal with insecurities, obstacles, fierce hardships, and doubts. When we get past those, we're unstoppable! Patrick Combs coaches people through the insecure inner self and transforms them into the successful inner self.
After a long, hard day, you put your head on your pillow and feel like the most worthless person in the world. You're full of insecurity. Patrick Combs tells people to "sleep on it". When you go to sleep, you feel like a quitter. If you are truly passionate about something though, when you wake, you won't feel like a quitter anymore. If you do, find a new passion. If you feel like you want to go on, you have what it takes to overcome adversity!
Keep a journal. It sounds simple, but Patrick Combs used a journal to get through his insecurity before becoming a successful comedic entertainer. Of course you're not going to want to write down the negative comments people make about your efforts. You should write down the things you want to remember and dwell on. Read them everyday. Use them to boost your confidence, and don't give up. If you want to live life with passion, live today passionately.
If you're going to be successful, you'll have to go through a daily roller coaster ride. Patrick Combs rode it each day as well. It took three long years of mental roller coasters to become a successful comedian.
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