Finding the Passion in Your Life

0:00Thank you for listening to my morning monologue. Brought to you by my sponsor, Golden Crest Metals. Find out how Golden Silver can protect what you have worked so hard to build. Learn more at drlorakit.com. That's drlorakit.com for your free information camera. Remember, you can hear my radio program, Daily, on SiriusXM Triumph and connect with me 24-7 at drlorakit.com. I found an interesting article that came out in England about finding the passion in your life. And it had the most interesting points. And, once I agree with, interesting, and I agree with them. So I thought I'd share them with you. We could call. I don't know what my passion is. And some of you are waiting for a eureka moment. That you'll read something, see something, do something, hear something, and bing!

1:02Don't work that way. It takes work. There is no eureka moment. But a lot of you fall into life routines that get boring and unfulfilled. You want to do something that matters, but you don't know what they have to do. So the article goes on with a number of points that I thought would be fun to share with you. First one, ask yourself these three simple questions. First one, what subject could I read 500 books about without getting bored? Second question, what could I do for five straight years without getting paid? Forget the practicalities, which is talking about the passion. What could I do for five years straight without getting paid? Third question, what would I spend my time doing if I had complete financial abundance to do anything?

2:08So basically these questions are taking some of the practicalities out of it and just going to your core. Don't assume that your passion should be your job. In my case, I have lots of passions, but my main one is my job. I ain't necessarily so for maybe even not most people. The job is the way to the practicalities so that you can then entertain your passion. So make your money in some way that will give you the time to do what you really love to do. Your job doesn't have to be the passion. It can be the practicality. Ask another question. Make a list of people you're jealous of.

3:09Give you clarity because you start seeing what it is you're jealous of. There'll probably be a pattern. There'll be some dumb stuff like this one's prettier, this one's taller, this one's smarter. But mostly you'll start thinking about what they do. What are they doing that you're jealous of? Not the superficial stuff, but what are they doing? Are you starting to think? Are you starting to think? Your true passion is not found overnight. But you realize it through a series of discoveries of small interests. I never planned to be a psychotherapist nor a radio host.

4:17That was never a plan. When I was in graduate school, I was going to be a professor and a scientist. PhD was in physiology from the medical school of Columbia University in New York. I flew it and stuff here. But it wasn't my passion. Why was I doing something that wasn't my passion? Truth to impress my dad. It's a stupid reason to be doing anything. Unless it's a healthy impressed. It wasn't my passion. I worked hard at it and did my best and did well, but it wasn't my passion. I would have been like a fruit drying up on the vine, but I'd stayed with it.

5:22I came out to California to visit. Sure liked the sun most of the year. That concept palm trees that gets a wow. I turned on the radio and I heard a particular radio program where in New York it was just about news, weather, traffic, and sports. And out here there was talk radio. I was mesmerized instantly. I was just talking about human condition problems, but totally with humor was just a humor show. Bam. Semai Urika moment. As I said, there are a few of them. I had a semai Urika moment because when I listened to it, I was just drawn. Solving problems. Dealing with people to solve everyday human problems.

6:22Never in a thousand years did it occur to me before I heard that radio show. Because when I was in college, psych majors were down at the bottom. I was considered a really ridiculously easy major. Biology was the tough major. Even more than physics and math, the bio majors were considered gods. Because we had to take all the other disciplines. And they didn't. So yeah. You've got to have your brain out and about. You've got to be observing things. And a little bulb went out in my head. A little guy. I feel drawn to that was my feeling. I feel drawn to that.

7:23So when you feel drawn to something, it's not necessarily a total Urika moment, but you feel drawn to it. It grabs your attention. It grabs your interest. So you pursue it. Thinking, pursuing, questioning. I took courses. Got a marriage and family. And child therapy license. And off I went. That took some years. And during those years, I was teaching biology and physiology. Which was kind of fun, but not my passion. But understanding physiology is understanding the complexity of how all the parts of the body all the way down to the molecular level interact. To make this magnificent thing called your body work. Puzzle solving. I like puzzle solving. I didn't like puzzle solving on the molecular level.

8:24I like puzzle solving on the human level. So. You've got to open your eyes, look around, try things, fiddle about. I have a significant number of hobbies. Each of which I put everything into. But not one of them. What I want to be doing for five straight years. Not one of them would I want to breed 500 books on. Just this. Take yourself those questions. I love that first one. What could you read 500 books on that same subject? What could you do for five years even if you didn't get paid? Because you have the passion for it. My favorite most recent call that many of you I'm sure heard. The 18-year-old young man who called in with his mother who was kind of ticked off that he was interested in college.

9:25He had started but you know, he may alone. I don't want to do this. And he was very depressed. So she brought him on the air because he was very depressed. Well. I pushed and pinched a little and we got to what his passion was and it was race car driving. Wants to be a race car driver. And I pointed out you have to start, you know, with a broom cleaning out. Where the cars are and work your way up to learning mechanics, etc. Maybe taking classes, learning how to fix the way those high performance cars work. And at the end of the call, he was miraculously cured from his depression. It was miraculous. No, of course it wasn't. It was just that I gave him permission to do what he wanted to do, which was his passion. A lot of parents can't understand that because they have a preconceived notion of how things should go.

10:27What's going to be in that person's best interest? Well, some people are willing to take risks to see if they can become a star race car driver. And that should be respected. It's not stupid. I'll have to work his way up. So when you were a kid, you probably had some passions. Mine was to be a weather girl. God save us all. I was really little. I thought it was very cool to be making smiling suns and clouds and explaining them. Yeah. Line number 1-800-375-2872. If you like this podcast, be sure to rate it on Apple Podcasts or your favorite place to listen to my podcast. Of course, I'd love if you gave me five stars. And be sure to share this podcast with a friend on Facebook or your preferred social media platform. Syria's XM Triumph Run.

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