Are You Stuck? 3 Unconventional Yet Easy Steps to Act on Your Passionate Direction

How many times have you checked Facebook today? How many articles have you read via Digg? How many television shows have you mindlessly watched? In other words, how many hours of your day have you wasted not following your passionate direction?

This is a question that frequently comes up in the tech/blogging world, but often reflects the actual non-online world as well. There are so many hours we waste that we feel we “deserve” to take a break after working at a job that is unfulfilling.

I have some eye-opening news for you. The people you aspire to be like that work for themselves probably spend minimal time on mindless things and endless hours on their passion projects.

The reason I say this is because I can fall into this same mindless hole at times as well. Now, I am fairly good at recognizing such and pulling myself out of the hole.

So, let’s assume you find yourself wasting a ton of time right now on any and everything that is not your passion (not including this article of course). What do you do to rid the rut?

3 Unconventional, Easy Steps to Act on Your Passionate Direction

In the following, you will find a few tactics I have applied to my own approach of redirection back to my passion direction.

1. Stop Using Your Primary Mode of Mind-Mapping for a Week. There’s a tendency to rely on What-Has-Worked. Well, often what we think is working best for us, is the last thing (maybe, not last, but not first) we should be doing. If you write a checklist of things to do on a whiteboard or notepad, stop doing that and start using a new mode of mind-mapping for your day. If you use a notebook to sketch out your world-domination plans, stop and start using flashcards. If you rely on your MacBook Pro to run your life for you, stop and start using a journal to track everything you have, are and will do. It doesn’t matter what the mode of mind-mapping you use. You just have to switch gears to reboot the creative thinking.
2. Give Something of Value to a Friend/Significant Other and Tell Them Not to Give It Back Until ‘X’ is Completed. When you don’t have what you want and know a way to get it, you tend to do whatever is necessary to get it back. Unfortunately, most of us don’t see our passion as such, but we do see our electronic toys or our television or our car as such. When the tangible value is taken away that we have become accustomed to, we want it back so bad that we, just possibly, start taking action towards our passion.
3. Write Down “My Goal is to ____________ by __ __ __” on 20 Pieces of Paper & Hand Out to the 20 People You Interact with the Most. Haven’t been accountable for your own actions? Well, others will keep you that way. You are bound to find at least a few of the 20 people who will keep bugging you about your goal or your lack thereof completing it. This is not meant to make you feel bad for failing, but to bring out that innate human feeling of not wanting to let others down. By doing this, you are saying to these people that you are going to act. We can always let ourselves down, but letting others down is tough on the human mind.

If you implement even just 1 of these in the next few days, you will find yourself a step or two further along your passion path.

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