Hey whats up? It’s DC here and I just wanted to talk a few minutes about somethings I’ve been struggling with lately…
It’s Monday so I figure a good swift kick in teeth would be a great way to get the week rolling and hopefully open up some eyes so something gets accomplished this week!!
Turns out the people I have been discussing these things with, have the same type of struggles I have and didn’t even know it.
Once I started telling a few of my close friends and family my ideas, goals, and plans I started thinking about what my true passions are in life.
And you know what?…
I couldn’t come up with a single specific one.
I even started Google’ing terms like “How Can I Find My Passion”, or “Secret to Discovering my Passion”
Other than the very odd porn sites that popped up using Passion fruit, I was still stuck at square one and had just wasted an hour of my day making me feel worse (not to mention some of the images that are now burned into my retinas…).
I wasn’t sure why I was struggling so bad with this either.
I mean I opened my gym because I thought training athletes was my passion.
I dove into marketing head first because I thought my passion was learning how to grow and successfully build a business from scratch.
I competed in powerlifting, highland games, strongman competitions, and even CrossFit competitions because I thought one of those would spark my fire and give me a passionate reason to train day in and day out.
I take emails, texts, and phone calls daily from other people who want to start their own training facility and I thought maybe coaching someone in business would be my passion.
And you know what? Not a single thing of those things listed above continuously sticks out over another as my true passion.
So am I just a passionless shell of a man?
I started to think so. That is why this blog has been stopped and started so many different times. Because I never found my passion to write or do video over.
Until one day I took the two tools that have brought millions of people extreme riches, tons of clarity, and some of the biggest ideas this world has ever seen.
I pulled out a pen and my yellow legal pad and began writing…
I wrote down everything I enjoy, think about, or anything that gets me fired up and started to look deeper.
My good friend Paul Reddick, calls it finding the 5, 6, 7…
What this means is that it’s easy to see what everyone else sees (1, 2, 3, 4), but you have to dig deeper to truly find what people think, feel, fear, need, and are passionate about.
Once I started digging, things started flying off the page at me. Go back and look at those things above. Turns out, 2 things jumped out and hit me in the face when I went back over my list again.
1) I love doing new things, and taking risks. – Passion #1
I don’t know many other people who started their own business from scratch as their full time job with zero business experience before they were even 30 years old.
I have yet to find someone else do and compete in so many various things no matter how they end up. Most people lock up and go pale when I ask them about doing a competition that puts them outside their comfort zone.
Just as an example, I am running the CrossFit SuperHuman Open Prep competition this weekend, and we made it hard. There are thousands of CrossFitter’s just in the Houston area, and hundreds of those have the goal to compete in the CrossFit Open, Regional, and Games. How many of those stepped outside their comfort zone to step up to a competition different than any other held in Houston?
18…
I never realized how many people fall into the same rut in work, their training, and life and never branch out to take a risk or try anything new.
2) I love helping people reach goals they never thought possible. – Passion #2
I think this is my main passion and I have just found multiple ways to express it.
If you are doing something awesome and stepping outside your comfort zone to become better, then I want to do everything I possibly can to help.
This is why our training for athletes at Genesis is so different… This is why I’ll take the time out of my schedule to help guys who are wanting to open their own gym or become strength coaches by answering emails, meeting with them, referring people to them, or doing whatever else it is I can do to help out.
So combining those I’m slowly learning more and more what my passion is… As hard as it is to sum up into one statement, I believe this is as close as it comes.
“My passion is to go down as many paths less traveled, and provide markers, assistance, directions, and lights. So others who want to make that same journey end up reaching their destination as quickly as possible.”
Have you figured out what you are passionate about? What wakes you up in the morning excited and ready to kick life in the teeth?
If you haven’t then I recommend you pull out your own sheet of paper, write down what you have done in the past and what really excites you. Then start digging deeper to see what you come up with.
I’m excited to see your results and if you do find out what you are truly passionate about, then please comment below as I want to read it.
Also please like and share this post because the more people who figure out what they are truly passionate about, the happier everyone will become. That is one thing I can promise!
DC
PS: If you’re passions are training clients, athletes, or running your own business, then I recommend you attend the next Genesis Strength Seminar. It will not only help clarify the best methods to get your clients results, but by utilizing the business strategies discussed you will make more money and avoid the same headaches and problems that I did.
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Christopher Reed
131 days ago
DC,
WOW! Great post buddy. How true that is. To answer my passion is three fold: 1) To Inspire. Inspire others to be their very best at what ever they choose. I have found that fitness & training is merely a vessel that facilitates consistent affirmation that are capable of achieving what was once thought to be unachievable. The proof is in constantly resetting PR goals.
Only in rarest of instances are you shown that sacrifice, hard work, teamwork, strategy and discipline provide the greatest reward – SUCCESS through the achievement of an objective, whatever that objective may be.
2) FREEDOM – at the end of the day I believe that this en masse may be the one common 5,6,7 we all hold in common. Who wouldn’t to be capable of doing what they want, when they want and more over HOW they want to do it – simply just cause and for no other reason. The truth is, I have come to understand, when you live what you believe to be your PURPOSE (in my case to inspire) then you achieve freedom.
Perhaps not in a material sense but in the most important sense – mentally and spiritually. Material things from this point of origin are a mere matter of time. I believe that all in the world is yours for the taking if you are willing to work hard and sacrifice for achievement.
3) To speak / communicate – regardless of the medium; video, blogging, tweeting, Facebook, lecturing, conducting workshops whatever the opportunity I relish the chance to get a message out. This comes from being bullied as a kid. I was taunted for my ability to communicate and my vocabulary – I was always and still am to this day an avid reader so my spelling and composition skills grew in leaps and bounds when put in contrast to that of my peers.
To this day I am terrified when I present, perhaps not prior to or during but afterwards. At the conclusion of any engagement where I am to communicate, the most common of conversation, I tend to over analyze and re-think how I could’ve, should’ve or might’ve done things better. But, because I consistently push myself and get back up in front of a crowd time and time again I fulfill my #2 passion – FREEDOM.
By doing the very thing that I was bullied for in grade school I graciously extend my middle finger to those who may have otherwise silenced my voice at one point. The best part is the manner in which the reply is sent – through paying forward through positivity and life change in someone else’s life, as you so aptly stated: expediting their personal journey toward personal achievement and success.
Howard Thurman a theologian espouses the point of my thoughts on what you have written the best through the following quote:
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
Thank you for putting this out DC!
DC
130 days ago
Reed thanks for the input and I’m glad you found what actually makes you happy doing. It is funny the path some people take to find it, and if it could be put in the form of a line, I wonder just how long and crooked mine and others would be.
Hopefully my post helps others shorten and straighten up that line trimming down the amount of time they spend searching before they can truly start enjoying everything they do.
DC