TRANSCRIPT FOR EP36
Welcome to SHE is Confident. Hi! This is Deon Teh and in this episode, I will be sharing with you about RELEASING YOUR PASSION.
We always heard that everyone has their purpose for this life journey. I believe that your passion together with your talent would be your purpose in this life journey, however, it is not easy for most people to realise it unless you are very lucky and it is a long search even if you know what your talent is and would like to convert it into a reality.
You can think about this: Is there anything you are willing to do when you were young even though it doesn't pay you money? What was the thing that you like to do the most or is there any particular thing that you are very passionate about and will even lose track of time. You totally enjoy working on it or doing it and the more you do the happier you feel?
Perhaps what is the one thing that people will often praise you on? Or is there something that you can do easily and others cannot? For example, you are able to draw well without needing to attend any classes,
Releasing your passion is not like playing or doing something today that you are happy with and the next day you dislike doing it or don't want to do it. It is something you will do for a long time and persist to do even in tough times.
When I was young, I often envied my friends who could play the piano, and I also enjoy watching classical piano performances. As my family could not afford the lessons, I was not able to learn how to play the piano. For many years, I have been trying to get my son to learn the piano however he did not enjoy playing the keyboard and after a year, he quit learning. As a result, we have a piano at home which we bought for him to learn to play.
At first, I was hesitant to learn as I had too much consideration. However, every time when I watch a piano performance, it tickles my love for it.
One day, a thought came to my mind, why don't I learn piano instead. Without any hesitation, I called my son’’s piano teacher to enquire about adult piano lessons. Since then, I have been learning for 3 years and I enjoy it very much.
Also, I like to read, especially books on self-improvement and this benefits me in work. This passion in reading, allows me to discover concepts and shift my mindset positively. When I manage the company, human resource issues are the biggest challenge for me and I do enjoy settling these issues and I feel satisfied when handling issues that can be resolved in a harmonious way.
After becoming a mother, I have to juggle work and family life. I realised that as a working mother, we put too much pressure on ourselves and we become jaded with life. When I do the things that I want to do like learning to play the piano or read books, I am able to release the pressure in me and ignite the passion in me.
Besides these, I also found out that my passion in reading can be developed into one of my wealth channels if I put in the effort. I would like to use my passion in this to help and guide people especially working mothers to self-love and discover their passion.
To find out your passion, you can try out different things that you are interested in or the things that your inner heart will be happy when you do those things. YOu can also understand more about yourself through personality types. When you are clearer of your personality, what you are passionate about, what you are going to do, and how you would do it.
What is your short term goal and what are your long term goals, what are the challenges you will face. These are areas that you will have to put in efforts to research and of course, if you would like to short cut the learning process, you could seek a reliable mentor to unleash you.
Don't wait for people to tell you what to do, you will have to seek it yourself. Only you will know what you are interested to pursue. Even if the outcome is not what you desire, you will still be happy and enjoy doing what you are passionate about.
When you are willing to invest in yourself, put in the time to learn and master it, and not feel tired of doing it continuously. This is probably the thing you want to do.
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I look forward to seeing you in my next episode where I will be sharing with you TIME MANAGEMENT.
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