Pursuing What You Love

Written By Colēgia

There are many things throughout our lives that we want to accomplish. For some, it may be reaching a certain academic goal. For others, it can be a creative endeavor they want to do. Both of these are valid and can help enrich your life for the better. Today we want to talk about the importance of pursuing what you love.

Practice Self-Awareness

Before we can pursue the things we love, we first need to practice self-awareness. Many of us spend a long time asking ourselves what it is we want to spend our time on and that's okay. It takes time to understand what it is we truly enjoy. One great way to work on this is to meditate. Meditation gives you the means to quietly address your thoughts and feelings. Mindfulness meditation can help us keep ourselves receptive to new ideas along with how we want to get there. Slowing down our thoughts can help us as it keeps us calm and collected. Eventually, we will find a sort of harmony with our thoughts and we can channel that in a practical manner to pursue the things we love.

“Before we can pursue the things we love, we first need to practice self-awareness.”

Plan Your Steps

Once we have a good semblance of what it is that we care about, we'll need to take active steps in order to get there. Planning and organization is one such way to do so as it can help keep our thoughts down in a tangible manner. If there's a creative idea we have, we can opt to write down each of the individual steps needed to follow through with it. One example would be writing a story. Writing down a general idea of which characters will be within the story along with the overall plot is a good starting point. You can also plan what sort of conflicts your characters will experience and how they will overcome them. Small steps such as these give us a road map for how we want our project to turn out. Having a game plan before doing something is essential as it is effectively a draft for how you want something to be.

“Once we have a good semblance of what it is that we care about, we'll need to take active steps in order to get there.”

Focus on Action

Planning and self-awareness are crucial as they both contribute to our own inner confidence which we will need once we start putting things into action. Rather than relying on overplanning or being in our heads, we want to channel our thoughts in a manner that lets us accomplish the things we want. Action is the practical side of pursuing our passions since it allows us to get closer to the things we want. One example of this is taking the first step when it comes to a creative practice. Simply starting on writing the book you want to create or choosing the color for your paint canvas are small but helpful steps. Everyone has a unique journey when it comes to their passions and understanding that we can use our successes and failures as a means of learning can make it that much easier.

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