Can You Really "Find" Your Passion at Any Age?
Way back when I was a teenager, I loved the sport of barefoot water skiing.
One day, I turned to cross the wake and crashed into the water.
When I climbed into the boat, I had become deaf.
That moment changed the course of my life. I grew up hard of hearing and being ashamed of having hearing loss. It was no fun missing out on group conversations and constantly asking people to repeat themselves. After becoming deaf, I hit a dark time in my life.
I woke up one morning and made a simple decision: I was going to embrace the journey of being deaf. That decision led me through a whole new world; one where people used sign language. I met my husband (who is also deaf) and I ended up passing a gene to my children and they too, became deaf.
Fast forward to midlife
My husband forwarded me a link to a Today Show segment featuring Judy Myers, a 66-year-old woman who learned to barefoot water ski at the age of 53.
I quickly did the math — I was only 44. If this gal could do it in her 50s...
The Best Books for Living a Great Life
"How do I live my best life?"
"How do I live with passion?"
This two are questions that I'm often asked by life coaching clients. I usually recommend a book or two during coaching sessions. I have shelves and shelves of books on the topics of passion, self-growth, and a variety of other "life improvement" topics.
And...
Here they are for you:
Of course, I'm going to recommend the #1 book on passion. I may be a tad biased because I wrote it:
Unwrapping Your Passion, Creating the Life You Truly Want
I met Kevin Hall on FaceBook many years ago when he commented on a barefooting photo. Kevin sent me a box of his books and I gave all of them away but one. Aspire is based on 11 words to live your life by.
The Passion Test by Janet and Chris Attwood
My friend, Stephen Hopson recommended The Passion Test. I read the book in four hours while soaking in the bathtub. I was mesmerized by the test and surprised at my top five...
Painting, Poetry, and Sunshine
| Karen, On being human... Every day, we can predict darkness and light. The earth rotates every 24 hours and delivers the dark/light pattern without fail. Some days are darker than others. Some nights are lighter than others. And so it is with life. I started painting again. In the process, I found some old paintings that I had tucked away in a pile. One of them was this yellow sunflower.
When I first painted it, I couldn't quite see its beauty. I just saw some yellow paint and an attempt to copy a real sunflower that I was looking at. I felt like I came up dismally short at the time. So it went in a pile of discards. But pulling out the second time, I see it with different eyes. Looking at it inspired a poem that simply poured out: I look for sunshine |
How Do I Find My Passion?
“How do I find my passion?”
That’s the number one question that people come to me seeking the answer for.
My answer is simple:
You create it. You create your own Passion Path.
Passion is an energy that is a gift in your life. The thing is, most people never take the bow off. They never unwrap the gift.
Or sometimes they do, but then they put the gift on a back shelf in a closet–and forget about it.
So after working with many people on the process of unwrapping the gift of passion–I created a way to tap into the energy of passion on a daily basis:
The Passion Path is a daily journal with three parts: A question to ponder, actions to take, and a practice of daily gratitude.
There is power in writing your thoughts and creating a daily habit that brings in a positive energy into your life. When you create this new path, you set passion in motion.
Does it work?
Yes.
Edie created a Passion Path by taking up dance lessons again following an...
