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I'm Mervi Eskelinen!
An artist, nerd and sorcerer, dedicated to make world softer and better for everyone, and to get you to make more art. Make art, change the world!
Search for passion
Reading all the well meaning advice of how to be happy with your life and work can be rather depressing. For instance many of all these articles about the subject tell that finding your passion is the way to go.
But what if you don't have a clue of what your passion is?
Leo Babauta writes on Zen Habits how finding your passion isn't easy. He points out that he's been lucky: He has found his passion and makes a living with it.
In the article he points out a couple of simple ways to find your passion. It starts with starting a list with things you are good at, things that excite you, what you read about and what you dream about. From there you can start to narrow down your options, learn the skills needed and work towards passion driven life.
Marie Forleo , a life coach and marketing trainer, tells the secret of finding your passion. In short it is doing. Taking the action and bringing the passion in everything you do.
Unfortunately sometimes your passions can change. It's unfortunate when it happens that you start to feel stuck with your "old" passion.
For me creating websites has been the thing. Since I was in high school I've loved how I can write tags and style definitions and all that turns into an attractive website.
I still do enjoy it, but in time it has become more and more technical and less and less creative. As much as I feel that certain standards are important and as passioned I may be about how websites are made, something has changed.
I find it difficult to sell my services. I find it difficult to make my living with what I do. I find it difficult to explain my (possible) clients that what I do costs them some real money.
Therefore I've set to search for my passion. Starting with listing things I'm good at and what I'm interested in.
The reason why I'm writing this blog post is to show anyone else struggling with same issue that they aren't alone. This is also a part of my own search of passion. This way I have now voiced out that something needs to be done.
And perhaps, just perhaps, someone might give me a nice idea of what I could do to fix this passionless situation.
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