When you lose your passion in life, at worse you spiral out of control; at best you become a zombie, sleepwalking through life. It doesn’t matter how smart, educated, hard-working, skilled, wealthy or successful you are. A loss of passion takes away all the advantages you have in life. A loss of passion eventually leads to depression, which can take weeks, months or even years to recover from.
Triggering events are often the root cause of a loss of passion. Triggering events include a job loss, demotion, death in the family, illness, financial stress or the accumulation of Poverty Habits that trigger Detrimental Bad Luck in your life. When you experience a loss of passion you lose your ability to achieve. You get stuck and you lose your zest for living and doing. Life begins to spiral downward into a black hole that draws you in, deeper and deeper.
Those who recover their loss of passion during triggering events all have one thing in common: a purpose. Having a purpose in life acts like a firewall against those triggering events that sap us of our passion. Think of those triggering events as the flu and your main purpose as the antibiotic. Purpose shortens and diffuses those triggering events and allows you to recover your passion much quicker. Purpose is the antidote to a loss of passion and potential depression. Purpose not only defends against those loss of passion triggering events, it helps raise you to a completely different level in life. Purpose helps you evolve as a person. It motivates, inspires, elevates and makes life worth living.
You need to have a major purpose in life. Those who do, transform their lives from trivial to triumphant. Sir Edmund Hillary did just that. On May 29, 1953, he and a Nepalese Sherpa, Tenzing Norgay, set foot on the 29,028-foot (8,848-metre) summit of Everest, the highest point on earth. They had succeeded where others had failed, and had survived a journey that had taken the lives of great explorers before them and many since. Until that year, Edmund Hillary had lived in relative obscurity as a beekeeper in Auckland, New Zealand, but the unprecedented feat of scaling the world’s highest mountain brought him a fame he could hardly have imagined.
If you don’t have a main purpose in life, find one. This strategy will show you how: (http://richhabits.net/dads-advice-to-his-children-on-finding-a-purpose-in-life-and-on-being-happy/).
When you find a purpose in life you will find your passion for living again. And you will find an unlimited supply of happiness and success.
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