Find your purpose Live your Passion

Find your purpose Live your Passion

Who are all involved in shaping a child’s future? What does it take to live a contented life? How should an ideal profession be? How can one pursue his passion?

Every single child in this world is born with immense talents and dreams. And through a very stage of life a child it child has  umpteen opportunities to develop his inborn talents or develop new talents. If the talents and skills are tapped and used effectively every individual can turn to become responsible leaders, entrepreneurs, individuals of the future society. But all that is possible only when their talents and skills are realized and their dreams and passions are recognized, given respect and supported

Doing something which we like is the definite pathway to lead a contented life. Either we should love what we are already doing or should try to find and do something we love .The responsibility of navigating towards a child’s passion lies not in a single hand. It begins with the family, teachers, friends, relatives and the society. With the responsibility lying in multiple hands it’s high time to understand the importance of the responsibility they hold and act accordingly.

The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose..So it is important for a child to be guided properly to aim to live a life of purpose. Purpose does not depend on a single factor. Purpose drives happiness.   Is our purpose defined by what we do?  For some purpose is doing well in school and for others purpose is to help other people for some others it is different Purpose is something we do.   Purpose is something we are.   When we live our purpose we are producing results that are useful.    When we are able to fulfil our purpose we’ll probably find happiness and joy.  We’ll experience a richer and more vibrant life.   We’ll feel alive and energized.   It doesn’t mean that life will be easy and there won’t be struggles, part of life is the experience of challenge and difficulty and discovering ways to overcome those challenges.

If we can closely look and try to understand the above Venn diagram of the Purpose of Life we can find a lot of meaning in it. A person can be happy

if he is doing what he is capable of (when he is skilled enough to perform his job)

He is happier if he likes what he is doing and he is

even more happier if what he is doing fetches money to earn his living and

By doing all this the society is also getting benefitted, the person is in the sweetest part of his life.

Of course all people may not get to get a seat in the lucky spot of intersection point of all 4 elements but definitely we can work towards making our things end in a way to be in the closest part of the intersection.

Having said that the foundation of a person’s life is set during his childhood days itself, (in other words when the child attends puberty and the mental maturity to decide upon things), a proper guidance, motivation and Passion awareness etc needed to be given to an individual at the student level itself

Let’s go back go back to the elements of the Venn diagram, Take the first element here the child first need is to understand what his real skills and talents are. This can be done through proper guidance, support, self introspection, experimentation etc. And once identified they can work on improving their talents.

Second part is the Passion/interest where the child’s dreams and aspirations come into picture here the child can document his aspirations passions convert them into SMART goals with the guidance of parents teachers mentors tutors

If based on the above two factors conscious and well thought decisions are taken in selecting a career it will lead them to pursue their passions and the same time ensuring that they give something back to the society one can lead a life of Purpose.

More articles on Passion Navigation to follow in the coming issues.

The author Mohammed Aslum is the Chief Passion Mentor of Mine2Shine School of Passion Navigation. He can be contacted at aminetoshine@gmail.com and 09789186428