Finding Your Passion: Life is Not a Dress Rehearsal!

The Amazing Paula Deen

Have you ever thought about what would happen if you could end up living your dreams and fulfilling your true passion in life?  Finding your individual purpose in life is really about searching for what gives you meaning.  Sure, our children, family and spouses give us an exemplified meaning, but often times, as individuals, we find ourselves not being in tune with our true beings, with who we really are.  We feel like a part of our very existence hasn’t come to fruition or full-circle.  With that being said, I ask you readers…”What are you waiting for?”

One of the biggest reasons people do not step out and explore their passion in life is out of fear of failure of the unknown.   My answer to that is this:  “Expect nothing and look forward to everything!” Allowing fear to shut you down will force you to leave behind your true passions.  Step out on faith!  Do not allow yourself to continue to make excuses for not following your dream in life.  There will never be enough time or you will never have enough money if you wait on these things to arrive on your doorstep.

One inspirational story that always reacquaints me with my own personal passion is that of Food Network star Paula Deen.  Paula is one of my silent heroes.  After being newly divorced after a 20 something year marriage, she started her own small business at the age of 40.  She had no money in the bank, $200 her ex-husband handed her and at that point she decided to put her talents to work.  She enlisted her resources (her sons and their girlfriends and her love of cooking) and the rest is history.  She became a full-blown success.  Oh, and did I mention that she also had full-blown agoraphobia to overcome as well during all of this?  What an example of following life’s passion and making it a dream come true despite your fears!

The most important part of finding your passion and living life to the fullest is the path and journey the search takes you on.  As my good friend, author and life coach, Doreen Rainey, often says…”Life is not a dress rehearsal.”  Find good people who support you.  No one person wants to live their passion alone.  Sharing your passion and the journey will take you toward endless possibilities.  What about the unknown you ask?  Let’s face it, every person lives with a little fear in life.  It’s perfectly normal.  The answer is how we move past those fears, accept them for what they are and decide  not to spend excess time stagnating the process by allowing those fears to paralyze us. It is then that we can successfully achieve our life’s passion.

If you knew your life could be transformed would you go for it?  When you find your life passion, what some would think of as work, to you, is the best investment you will ever make.  Your staying up late, working through your lunch hours, getting up extra early in the morning to work on things and devoting numerous leisure hours to your dream and realizing your achievement is no longer a possibility but a probability, is when you will find a unique fulfillment like no other.  Your dress rehearsal has become, “Lights, Camera and ACTION.”

Remember, if you never put in the effort to find your true passion and you allow fear to disseminate your imagination, you will not only stagnate your dreams, but also your life.   Curtain closed.

Peace & Blessings,
Di