Passion and purpose go hand in hand. When you discover your purpose, you will normally find it's something you're tremendously passionate about.

-Steve Pavlina

Passion and purpose work together, as passion helps you in identifying your purposefulness in life.

Your passion is what drives you, it is that thing you will do and will never get tired of, even if you are doing it everyday.

Your purpose is the reason for your existence, that thing you're living for.

The way to find your passion is for you to look into the path that agrees well with you. When your Gifts, talents , abilities, and commitment agree together in a way that makes you happy, and with easy, you aren't getting wearied doing such thing again and again.

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Some people's passions are in singing of songs, and they are fulfilling purpose via it, they're blessing lives through that, whenever they sing, sad Souls receive joy, and many lives are blessed greatly. There were times in our lives that we felt bad and depressed, and we would just pick up our phones, play songs, before we know, all the depressions and sadness are gone. You see, those musicians are fulfilling there purposes in our lives, had it been they didn't do what they were passionate about, we wouldn't have gotten their songs to play.

Writers too are great, OMG.

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Personally, i have been blessed by many writers, the likes of William Shakespeare, Robert Kiyosaki, Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Wole Soyinka etc, as i was reading their books, were they not fulfilling their purposes in my life? Yes they were, but if they hadn't followed their passions, how would they have written books, talk less of me seeing them to read? Absolutely no way. Now you can see vital passion and purpose fulfillment is.

Even you, a writer on this platform, you are blessing our lives, as we read your writeup, we were getting informed, educated, enlightened, and tremendously blessed. That's part of purpose fulfillment.

Passion is a personal thing.

We are all different, as our faces differ so our passions, what Mr A is passionate about may be different from what Mr B is passionate about. Even twins have different passions. So, you shouldn't force your passion on another person. Let's take this example, I'm a football, that's my area of passion, that's what i love doing, i can sacrifice a lot to get ball played, i should not force you whose passion isn't in footballing to come and play ball. If i do that I'm doing the wrong it.

Applicable to academics too, we shouldn't force others to study the course we study, their passion might not be there.

I will like to tell you this story:

There was a boy, at the early stage of his life, his parents were trying to look into the future for him, they were Medical Doctors, so they wanted him to become a medical Doctor like them. On getting to high school, they compelled him to go to the science class, so as to fulfill their demand. The truth of the matter is that this boy's passion was not in science, but because he had no choice than to obey his parents, he went along with their plan. But guess what! On getting to the senior high school he began to struggle with mathematics, chemistry, physics, and biology, despite the struggles, he was still forcing himself to read harder than before so as to see if all will later work well for him, but the more he read, the more he failed.

It wasn't that he boy had a dull brain or was an unintelligent person, the truth was that his passion was not there, what he was passionate about was not science, but art.

As he kept failing, his parents got angry and withdrew him from the school, they laid the blame on the school. They took him to another school, they still made him to continue in the science class, yet he kept failing.

The school teachers had to complain to his parents, this time, they agreed to allow him go to the class where his passion was, which was an art class. There in the art class, everything became easy for him, he was not failing anymore. He found the class interesting, and he would always participate in all the debate within the school, and also get himself involved in press club of the school, not too long he began to represent the school in interschool debate competition, and he won it, and he came out in flying colours.

In the second year, he represented the state at the national interschool debate competition, to everyone surprise, he won others students hands down. Even the Moderators were so much surprised by the eloquence of his speech, his boldness, and how he was easily expressing himself. It was at this point his parents were finally convinced that their child's passion was not in being a science student but in being an art student as well as public speaking.

The boy has grown up to be one of the most influential public speaker in my country.

It's always good you identify that makes you fulfilled and happy, put all your best abilities and effort into it, pursue it.

What is that thing you you can do better than others? What do people see you being enthusiastic about?

Live for that particular thing that you feel a sense of urgency about fulfilling, that thing you can give up everything else for, just to feel good doing it. That's your passion my friend, and it worth living for because your passion will lead to your purpose.

Thanks for reading. 💖💖

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