Discover Your Passion (5 Actionable Tactics)

Hello there. In this video, we have another great question from Claire, and let's hear what she has to say. So I was let go from my job, and at first I was relieved because I did not love it. I was really excited to find something new, and I had months of severance to hold me over. I started applying for a bunch of stuff. Now I've fallen into a slump. I've been on some interviews, but I haven't had any offers. I seem to be obsessed with wanting to find my true passion, and yet no matter what I do, I can't seem to figure it out. Any insights you could give me on finding your passion would be great. Thank you, Claire. Thank you, Claire, for this great question. While I'm not 100% sure there is any one right answer, I do have a lot of experience with this particular topic, and in this video I'm going to share with you what I learned from my own personal story about trying to find my passion, how to get started and stop wasting time, how to become aware of BS on this topic, and a great resource I recommend to get you started. And the short version of my step-by-step way of working through it. So stay tuned. Boy, do I know how you feel. I was in the same spot a while back. I had been let go after the company I worked for had shut down, and I fell into this deep state of needing to find what my real passion was—my one great thing that I was going to do. I watched video after video trying to figure it out. I googled "What's my passion? How to find my passion?" I watched TED Talk after TED Talk. I took personality test after. Personality test. I asked my friends, what do you think I should do? What am I good at? What would be the best thing for me to do? I had a long list of ideas, a long list of things I was interested in, and I wanted just one thing so bad. Something that I could pour my heart and soul into and just get on with my life. Something that was a part of me and not just another job. So from my experience, here are 5 juicy pieces of information that I think will really help you get moving. So number one, the most important thing I learned from my own experience, and that was definitely sitting around wasting time looking for my passion. I accomplished nothing. I wasted months. I agonized over finding the perfect thing, and that was never the right thing to do. I accomplished nothing, and I had nothing to show for it. I was farther away from finding my passion. Because what I learned was that watching TED Talks, no matter how awesome they were, or taking personality tests could ever give me the answer that I needed. So what is the answer to this burning question? How do I find my passion? Number 2, get in it. Get your hands dirty. Start by doing something, anything. Try something new. Do some stuff. If you're waiting for the perfect horse on the carousel to By the time you come around, you've missed like 5 horses already and they're all just as good. Just get on one horse. This is something that my friend Seth Godin said and I love him for saying it because it is so true. If, for example, you're interested in wedding planning or kids' party planning, professional photography, accounting, and let's say catering, you're interested in all those things, you think you might be happy doing one of them. You can get into those environments without jumping in with both feet right away. You can volunteer your time, do something to explore that interest, take the first opportunity that comes up, and look for opportunities frequently. Take a photography class, intern or volunteer for a catering company, host your own dinner party, volunteer to plan a friend's birthday party or her kid's birthday party, do some bookkeeping for your parents' business. Opportunities are everywhere. You just need to look for them and jump on them when they come around. Number 3, be aware of bad BS. When I say BS, I mean belief systems. So don't wait to find your perfect passion before you get started on doing something. You don't need to wait, and the fact is you shouldn't wait. That is a bad belief system. I had this belief too. But now I realize that it's an old-fashioned belief and it shouldn't be subscribed to because you end up wasting a lot of time. Who says we even have one passion? We could be happy doing many things. Seth Godin said it perfectly. He said, I'm not sure that anyone has a calling. This whole calling passion thing is complete nonsense. Take Van Gogh, for example. If he had been born 20 years later or 20 years earlier, he wouldn't have done what he did. It's not like some angel came down from the sky and pointed at him and said, you are going to be an impressionistic painter. That is what you were meant to do. That did not happen. What did happen was, is that Van Gogh wanted to do a thing, but he didn't know what the thing was. And if he had been born 20 years later or 20 years earlier, he would have done a very different thing. And the same goes for Steve Jobs, for example. This isn't about waiting for the right answer. There is no right answer. What there is is a challenge that you can sign up for, or there's an emotion that you can experience. And you want to experience emotions, and you want to sign up for challenges. Those things will get you really excited and juiced. Number 4, try reading something a bit different or unexpected to get your mind out of the traditional thinking of finding your passion. A great resource that I recommend you read if you're in this position right now is called The Desire Map by Danielle LaPorte. It's a great book and it gives you a different perspective on kind of finding your passion and how it might show up in a different way. So experience Emotions in whatever form they might come. Because what is our end goal really? Feel a certain way. To feel fulfilled in our lives or to feel abundant or to feel happy or to feel joy in our work. It's not always about the thing we're doing, and even though it appears that way, it's not always about the thing. Number 5: Is there an easier way? And this is my favorite because let's cut to it, this all sounds like a lot of work, doesn't it? Is there any easier way? And the answer is yes and no. If you're a bit more like me and you wish there was a step-by-step process on how to find your passion, well, the good news is there is, but it does still take work. It's not a super easy process, but it is a practical way to do it, and I've been working on really mastering it. If you're the kind of person who loves a step-by-step process, it does exist. And I'm gonna give you the short version of it right now. Step 1 is research some ideas first that you think you might really like and pick your top 3. Step 2 is test them out by talking to people who are doing the thing or experts in that field. Step 3, ask yourself after talking to people and researching, am I still interested in these ideas? After doing those things, If the answer is yes, go for it, go try it out. If the answer is no, repeat the process and go back to the beginning until you find something that actually fits you. And that brings us to the end of the 5 juicy tips. I hope you have had a great time with me today watching this video. And Claire, I hope you are feeling more inspired. Feel free to click the thumbs up if you like this video, or click the thumbs down if you didn't. Now I'd love to hear from you. What is the first action you're gonna take after you watch this video? Are you gonna make your list of possible passions? Are you going to read the desire map? Or are you gonna jump right into something and just get going? Any one of those is great. If this video resonated with you, join me over at NatalieFisher.ca and sign up for updates. You'll be the first to hear about upcoming promotions and videos like this one. And you'll receive my free toolkit. Do you know one person who could benefit from the info I shared today? If so, help someone out by paying it forward and spreading the love and send them over today. And remember, our society can be a bit wacky sometimes. The traditional ways in which we've somehow decided we should be searching for our career is really weird to me. We use Keywords to find people, for crying out loud. We use software to figure out if a person is the right person to work with us. We're human. I'm here to prove that you've got what it takes and that you can break through, and I've got you covered. I'll see you next time, and I can't wait. Hopefully Carly is going to be quiet this time. She seems relaxed with her toy. Hello there. Today we're gonna talk about— oh, this is the wrong script. Never mind.