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So this month in her book The Art of Extreme Self-Care, Cheryl Richardson has challenged us to re-discover a hidden passion that we have. I wonder how you have been getting on remembering /uncovering/ reawakening your own hidden passion?
If you are struggling to work it out why not go on a ‘treasure hunt’ around your home. Before you set off have a think about what you love to see, hear, touch, taste or smell. Perhaps this will give you a clue.
Then as you go through the next 7 days, keep you eyes open for a symbol or object that might help you discover the hidden passion. Cheryl Richardson found for herself that a hat she saw in a shop and kept returning to look at was the clue to her hidden passion for fashion and design.
While you do this challenge remember, as with all aspects of Extreme Self-Care, it’s not that you are going to stop everything else and just concentrate on your newly awakened passion. It’s about finding enough time in your routine to honour how you feel about whatever it is and then doing something on a regular basis to fuel your passion; even if this can only be for 5 minutes a week.
If you are still struggling, this website has a list of great of resources you might like to look at http://findingyourpassion.org/. Another thing you could use is abook called The Alchemist, by Paul Coelho. Its a fable about staying true to your dreams. It might be just the thing to remind you about your hidden passions?
So once you have found your passion, the challenge for the rest of the month is to identify 3 small things you could do to pursue your desire further AND to schedule a time to do these even in the busy-i-ness called the Christmas Holidays! Remember if you can’t think of anything you could do you can always ask your friends what they think you could do. Or add a comment at the bottom of the blog and ask those of us reading.
