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1. Intro: Welcome everyone. My name is Karen and I
am a 19-year-old author, YouTuber, singer and actress. Two of those things, I'm not, I don't actually
have any workout officially for it's just
something that I'm working on. That's one of the reasons why I decided to teach this class. Because I realized that I
have a lot of passions, have a lot of passion
for my many passions, I really want to help people to not only find their passions, but also to focus in on
them and embrace them, and work to create a future that they
are passionate about. So I hope this will be
helpful to you guys. It's not going to be very long. I have five sections that are
going to be fairly short. But hopefully you guys can get some good insight and
they can help you to feel a little bit more
fulfilled and your life and be more productive
toward what you want to do.
2. Identifying Your Passion: One of this course, identifying your passion
isn't something that all of you are going
to need, necessarily. Some of you will probably
already be watching this, knowing exactly
what your passion is and exactly what you
want to work toward. However, it can still
be helpful for you, especially for the later
sections of this course. The beginning of
this part will be a little bit more
helpful for those of you who maybe have a few hobbies
that you know, you love, things that you are
passionate about, but you don't know exactly what your main passion is per se. Well, you can have
more than one passion. It is important to realize that there is a distinct difference between hobbies,
interests, and passions. It might seem to
you as if you're passion or whatever it is
that you're interested in, doesn't have a set path for moving forward
in forming a Google. This is especially true if
your passion revolves around a value like your family or maybe even becoming
a better person. But you can make plans
for these things as well. And I'm going to help you with that as we go
through this course. So let's go over
some strategies for helping to target exactly
what your passion is and how you can use it to make a better
future for yourself. So first what I want you to
do is I want you to make a list of things that you
genuinely love to do. For example, answer
this question. You had a day off
with no obligations. You could do anything
that you wanted. What will you do
then ask yourself, if I were to die tomorrow? What is it that I
regret not doing? Secondly, what are
some movies, podcasts, tv shows, books, music, things like that,
that you really love. What kind of media
or arts do you find? Light you up when
you consume them? For example, for me, I find that a lot of times I
will watch videos of people unboxing notebooks or doing writing blogs and
stuff like that. Or unboxing their books or release stay videos,
things like that. Because my passion, one of
my many passions is writing. I'm also very, very inspired by movies about stars being born
or people becoming famous. Because a very big
part of what I'm passionate about is
having an audience. It's why I'm into filmmaking
and acting and singing, all of those things I'm
extremely passionate about. And really my
overarching passion is sharing my work with people. Well, you really want
to do before you move on to the next section is definitely figure
out what the theme is. The thing that connects all the things that
you really love, whether that be music or painting or writing or
something like that. Or becoming a better person, or being a better being a better parent
or anything like that. No matter what it is,
just figure out exactly what that thing is that you
really want to work toward.
3. Honing in: Now we're moving on to
honing in on your passion and figuring out exactly what
you want your focus to be, especially in terms
of forming a goal. For example, if
you love to paint, you want to work on your art. You have to figure out
if you want it to be something that you
do as a career. Whether it be a full-time
job where you try to sell your art for a living or just something
that you do on the side. Or if it's something
that you want to do alone and you just want
to get better at it. Maybe techniques just advanced your own creativity and
skills for yourself. So let's go over some strategies for honing in on your passion. Here's some things that
you should ask yourself. Firstly, is it
something that you're going to try to make
money off of doing? Is this something that you
want to make money off of it? Is that something that's even feasible to make money off of? If it is, and that is something that you're
interested in. Do some research, watch some videos on what people
in your field are doing. This will help you
figure out what you do and don't want to do. And also give you an
idea as to how to start. Also ask yourself, what
is your long-term goal? This can be something numerical, such as the amount of
money you want to make or the amount of something
that you want to sell. Or it can be
something that's more based on personal fulfillment. It doesn't have to be
too specific right now, so don't worry about if
you can't figure out an exact number or
structure for your goal, that's something that you
can work on more later. And lastly, how much time do you have to put into your passion? So if you're working all the time that you don't
have much free time. Figure out like okay, well, I do have the mornings or
I do have the evenings. I might have an hour
here or an hour there, or maybe the weekends, figure out exactly how much
time that you have to commit. And this will help me
more later when you are making a plan to close
off this section, what I want you to do is
write down a one-line goal. Like I said, it doesn't
have to be too specific. For example, you might say, I want to be a freelance artist. Just anything that gives a very basic gist of
what it is you wanna do. But it's focused in
enough where you know, the basic idea of what you're going to have
to be working on.
4. Finding Motivation: So sometimes in order to
take that first step, you need to light a fire that's already burning
inside of you. Sometimes it is buried
deep down if you've let it linger there for
awhile without acting on it. But really what you need to do is you just need to
ignite that Spark, which means that
we're going to go back to our first section to that list that
hopefully you guys made of all the things that you love and
that inspire you. If not, do that now, just write down all the things
that really let you up, the things that
really make you want to act and fill
your creative well. Because once you
have that drive, you'll be ready to
act on it and then it'll be time to
really seize the day. This is really important
when you're starting out, just really to get yourself going and create that momentum. But it will also be important
later down the road when you are burned out maybe
or you're asking yourself, Why am I doing this? What am I doing? Or
doubting yourself? Is there a kind of music
that inspires you play it? Is there a show that you like
where when you watch it, it makes you feel like you
really want to do something big and make a big impact. Watch it. This is the time to give into those simple pleasures
and really dig deeper within yourself and
let yourself be filled up with excitement for
what it is that you look. And once the creative
well is filled, it is time to move
on to the next step. Making a plan.
5. Making a Plan: Alright, so it is time to place a deadline on your first goal. If you're wondering why
you need a deadline, I have two things to say. One, if you are
taking this course, it's likely that you have passion and you know that there's something you
really want to do. But you haven't yet
been able to find maybe the drive or maybe you just really didn't know
how to move forward. That means that
you need something pushing you to really
get something done. Secondly, there's a quote by Elon Musk that I really like. And it says, if you give yourself 30 days to
clean your home, it will take you 30 days. But if you give
yourself three hours, it will take three hours. The same applies to your goals,
ambitions, and potential. Makes sure that it's realistic. You want something that's
actually feasible. And you also really need to give yourself some accountability
for it so that it's not just something
where you can be like, Oh, it's okay. I can just do it later even
if you want to keep it personal and not to tell other people about
it, That's okay. You can work to hold
yourself accountable by putting up reminders
and writing it down. And I don't mean writing it down in a notebook
that you're going to stash away and not
look at for a month, write it somewhere where you
will see it all the time. For example, I have a
board back there where I have sticky notes
of all the things that I really need to get done. And they're up here every time that I'm
working on my desk, which is most of
the day every day. What don't want you to
do now is come up with a short-term goal that fits
within your long-term goal, then this should be broken
up into tasks that you can complete before the deadline that you put in
place for yourself. And it's good to
wait to add more of the bigger goals until you've
finished the first one, because you don't want
to feel overwhelmed. And it's also a good
idea to learn more about your pace after seeing how
you do with the first goal. For example, if you really
want to get a book published, but you've never actually
finished writing one before. You can't be sure how long it'll take you realistically
to get it done, you can break the
goal of finishing your first book up into
many other objectives, like brainstorming, outlining, writing
different parts of it, editing all of those things. But definitely
give yourself time for each of those
segments to make sure that you're
actually saying on track as you complete
these individual goals, make sure that you're
writing down how you felt about it
when you finished it, how much extra time you had, how you felt about the
time that you were given. This will help you
get better at time setting in the future
for your future goals. For goals that don't have so
much of a clear deadline, like the example I
gave before about family or becoming
a better person. It might take more
brainstorming, but you can set goals
for these passions. For example, your
goal might be to be a better parent and to raise
happy, successful children. For this, you might set
a smaller goal like helping your daughter
do better in school, or being able to plan and
take your family on vacation. Having a clear, reachable
goal for yourself will help you to feel more like
you're working towards something that you'll
actually be able to achieve. You can find videos online of
different planning styles. And as you try different things, you can see what it
is that works for you and your goals the best.
6. Staying on Track: As you near your deadline, but before you reach it, it's a good idea to look over everything that you've
done so far and to figure out if the time
that you've set for yourself is actually in line
with what you have to do. Go over the tasks that
you've already completed, the tasks you have left and figure out if you're satisfied with what you've been able to accomplish so far in the time
that you've given yourself? Well, it's not a
good idea to get yourself into the habit of
giving yourself extensions. There are also times
when it's really necessary because
something came up that you didn't expect or
you didn't give yourself enough time and you don't
want to be overwhelmed. So really, especially
for the first time, give yourself a bit of a break, but makes sure that it's
not because you weren't working on your goal. Make sure that it's genuinely
because you didn't give yourself enough time
because like I said, you don't want to make
a habit of doing that. It's also a good idea to
plan for breaks just in case things do come up and you also don't want to get
yourself burnt out. If you do find yourself
losing interests or you just are really
passionate anymore, feel free to take a break. Sometimes we really need it. You could end up
losing more time by not taking a break
when you need it. Then by taking a break
in the first place, I ended up getting myself so burnt out because I
was working nonstop for honestly years straight on my passion,
doing what I loved. And it got to the point
when I had to take almost a year off where I couldn't do anything
because I just genuinely I couldn't
feel it anymore. Then when you feel
like you're ready and you really want to
get back to it again. You just really want to
rekindle that flame, then use the examples
I gave you before. Go back to that list. Watch things that inspire you. Listen to music that inspires. You. Just get yourself
passionate again. Sometimes you
really just need to refresh your determination. Just take a day or maybe even a week and just do the
things that you love. Do the things that make
you feel like you want to act and they fulfill
you and like, it's what you're
meant to be doing. Just remind yourself
why you love it and why you wanted to go down that path
in the first place. And I wish you great
luck. Hi guys.
Carynn Bohley, Author, ghostwriter & content writer
