How To Get Career Clarity – Foundations – Part of Chapter II of the book ”Find Your Passion”

How To Get Career Clarity – Foundations – Part of Chapter II of the book ”Find Your Passion”

The Foundations are the cornerstones of all the strategies that I’ll share with you in order to discover your passion. Without these foundations, don’t even try to implement any of them. Remember, there is a reason they are called ”foundations”. We definitely need to set them up before moving on with the construction of your ”passion building”. Foundations comprise specific principles, habits and activities that will help you make the most of the passion discovery strategies, and the book in general. They’ll effectively prepare and preset you for your passion discovery and pursuit, giving you the framework of the attitude and mindset you have to adapt. Of course, every foundation should be customized to you. That is, it does depend on you, and I would strongly encourage you to do so; because there is no fixed, ”one-size-fits-all” way to implement the foundations. Remember: Your passion starts with your personal growth; and personal growth is your growth. That’s what it makes it powerful and unique; because you are unique and one of a kind. So, do pay attention to what and how these foundations work best for you.

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There are 12 fundamentals to follow and apply if you’re serious about finding what you’re passionate about. They are the foundations, the cornerstones of this book. Why? Because they’ll help you build the right mindset to have a successful passion journey.

”When you change,

everything changes.”

–  Jim Rohn –

So, you need to be fully prepared to change; to discover and pursue your passion; mentally, spiritually, emotionally and physically. This process is called ”priming”. You prime yourself for your passion, as well as a life full of it. Imagine these foundations as key points in a contract with yourself. The ”passion contract”. As soon as you agree, you’re accountable and committed; not to others, not even to me as your coach and mentor in this journey, but to yourself and your happiness. ARE YOU READY?

Am kidding again! You’ll never feel 100% ready. Just continue reading and leaning into the New World; the Passion World; Your World.

1. Give permission to yourself
2. Be open & receptive.
3. Be curious & willing to learn
4. You are naturally creative and resourceful
5. Self-Honesty: Be truly honest to yourself
6. Focus on yourself
7. Forgive
8. Give unconditionally.
9. Only quality people.
10. Develop the ”Growth Mindset”
11. Celebrate
12. Adapt the ”Passion Habits”

1. Give Permission to Yourself

Finding and pursuing your passion is and will stay an unattainable dream for you.

Unless you give permission to yourself to do so. No matter how obvious it might sound to you, remember this: Wanting something does not mean believing it. Wanting does not mean believing in you. You need to manifest your desire for having what you want or being who you want to be, as much as possible; both frequently and intensely. By intensely, I mean utilizing as many of your physical senses as possible; your hearing, taste, feeling, olfaction and vision. Why? Because our physical senses constitute learning paths for us. The more of them we use the better we process and learn the information we want to learn, including learning to truly and unapologetically believe in ourselves. By repetition and intensity, you’ll have a direct impact on your brain through passing and ”registering” in it the message ”I believe in me” and ”I can” – or any other message you want to pass to help you achieve your goals –

Be aware of this: Your brain does not absorb information and messages that you meant or wanted to have thought and said, but you didn’t. Like a recorder, it registers 2 crucial things:

1. What you actually say
2. The feelings that accompany what you say.

For example, if you say ”I can’t do this”, even if you don’t actually mean it, your subconscious mind will register ” You can’t do this”. ”Let’s make sure that this will happen.” It’d continue by gathering all the info it needs and activating all the processes necessary for you to not be able to do this. That’s right. You start sabotaging yourself, without even being aware of it (but now you have no excuses). Your words matter, so pay attention to what you say, literally.

Besides your words, how you feel when you say your words is equally, if not more significant. For example, if you say ”I believe in me”, or ”I can do this” while being sad, angry, resentful, stressed or afraid of – or feeling any other negative emotion – then your subconscious mind will remember and store exactly these emotions. On the other hand, if you manifest your passion, or any goals, aspirations and desires of yours, by feeling and communicating to your mind positive emotions (e.g. joy, exuberance, fulfillment, aliveness, happiness, excitement, enthusiasm, freedom, relaxation, fun, love, gratitude etc), then your subconscious will register exactly these. As a result, your words will ”stick” with these emotions and vice versa. This way you train your brain to generate positive emotions every time you make relevant statements and affirmations to manifest whatever you want; including new insights on how to discover your passion!

And here’s the best part: The more often you experience positive emotions along with your words, the more often you feel them in your daily life, as your mind focuses on generating more of these. But why our brain does this? Why more positive emotions generate even more positive ones?

I’ll tell you next week!

Meanwhile, feel free to connect with me on Facebook and LinkedIn, as well as check the book ”Find Your Passion”.