Nurture Your Passion

Experiencing that thrill of passion in your body is an indication that you're fulfilling a destiny you may have signed up for even before you merged into the world of being from nonbeing. The opening lines of the Old Testament convey that "God" and "good" are essentially synonymous, so know that when you feel good, that's akin to saying that you feel God.

The presence of passion (feeling good) is also the same as having God awakened within yourself. Think of this awakened presence as something you need to continously pay attention to and nurture in order to prevent it from either going back to sleep or disappearing entirely. In other words, you must keep this passion ever-present on the front burner of your life.

I encourage you to spend as much energy as you can reaching out and helping other people. Recall Lao-tzu's message that your willingness to receive blessings is related to your ability to give them. I know that I feel the greatest passion when I'm in the process of serving others. Giving money to individuals to finance dreams that otherwise would go unfulfilled or sending books and CDs to hospitals, prisons, libraries, and schools is always is a thrill for me. Even taking my 92 year old mom out for dinner, just the two of us, sends waves of pleasure down my spine.

Giving to others is a great first step in finding your passion. Recently, for instance, I had the opportunity to spend a morning in a first-grade classroom (I was invited to read Unstoppably Me! one of the four children's books I've co-authored with Kristina Tracy).

Interacting with the children and hearing the questions they asked filled me with enthusiasm, but what I saw in their teacher, Ms. Wimmer, was equally thrilling. Here's a woman living her passion every day through serving those first graders - she radiates her joy in nurturing the love of learning in all of her students, and she glows with excitement as she talks about each of the boys and girls whom she feels honored to teach.

Her students simply adore this wonderful educator, and who can blame them? She takes them on after-school field trips, has them write their own illustrated books, plans elaborate graduation ceremonies, and gets down on the floor with them to instruct from a hands-on perspective. Every subject is taught from a creative point of view.

Ms. Wimmer is also more than willing to spend her own money to provide experiences for the kids in her classroom who wouldn't otherwise have the opportunity due to budgetary considerations. There simply are no limits to what she'll do to give her students an ideal first-grade experience. This is passionate nurturing!

Rather than using our days to just go through the motions and feel a sense of ennui, we all need to go through life as enthusiastically as Ms. Wimmer does. After all, how can we be expected to find any passion if we're seemingly stuck in a dull world that typifies our daily existence? We must discover the joy and satisfaction that comes from feeding our passion - it's a much better idea that hauling out that tiresome excuse that "life is boring."

- Excuses Begone!: How to Change Lifelong, Self-Defeating Thinking Habits by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer



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