A Compelling and Passionate Reason?

[briant]

I'm new here. Don't even know if what I'm asking should even go here. Here goes...

James Ray says that you will begin to change your paradigm when you have compelling and passionate reason (I paraphrase). I'm a self employed individual and offer a service that most consider a luxury item. So, I have no compelling reason to do what I love to do other than it's what I've always wanted to do and I want to make a lot of money at it.

Is that a good enough reason to change my paradigm and become successful? Does there have to be some "higher purpose"?

Maybe I have no idea what I'm talking about

Brian

[NotesMaeve]

Wanting money so you can get more stuff isn't going to alter your paradigm/reality tunnel.

What sort of business is it? Why do you want this? Why do you want more money?

[briant]

Originally Posted by NotesMaeve

Wanting money so you can get more stuff isn't going to alter your paradigm/reality tunnel.

What sort of business is it? Why do you want this? Why do you want more money?

I'm a portrait and wedding photographer. Have been for 14 years. Since 99 as my sole source of income.

I've been taking pictures since I was twelve.

Why do I want more money? Why not? It will provide the lifestyle that I want to have.

Brian

[Love]

Originally Posted by briant

Why not? It will provide the lifestyle that I want to have.

Brian

Lol--"a why not" just doesn't sound like passion to me.
Maybe there is some passion to be had, though.
What type of lifestyle is it that you want to have?

[Dan.Linehan]

Originally Posted by briant

I'm a portrait and wedding photographer. Have been for 14 years.

I was just wondering today how hard it is to take portraits. I think that's a really great career, personally.

[NotesMaeve]

Originally Posted by briant

I'm a portrait and wedding photographer. Have been for 14 years. Since 99 as my sole source of income.

I've been taking pictures since I was twelve.

Why do I want more money? Why not? It will provide the lifestyle that I want to have.

Brian

What do you want though? What do you want that you don't have right now?

[briant]

Originally Posted by NotesMaeve

What do you want though? What do you want that you don't have right now?

I have specific financial goals in mind. Financial goals that I don't have right now.

I want more money.

Brian

[PMcDonald]

You can choose to make whatever you want to your passion.

I think people sometimes get too caught up in trying to find out what they were meant to do, what they are here for, their higher purpose etc.

However, the only thing we are meant to do here on earth is to live in our natural state of abundance and experience all that life has to offer. Here is the rub for some people - it's not like we were put there with a specific, preordained purpose. You can make your purpose and passion whatever you want to.

As for changing your paradigm, you certainly have to enjoy and be passionate about what you do but you also have to know exactly why you are doing it.

You'll hear many people in the network marketing/home business arena talk about your why and I cannot begin to tell you how important that is. For me personally, my primary reason for going into a home business for myself is because I wanted to be home with my family. I didn't want to be the dad who missed his kids growing up and when I watched them drive off to college be full of regret. But I also felt that I was worth more than I was earning at a job and I also wanted financial freedom. That is my "why". And it resonates so deeply with me that what I do doesn't really feel like work per se.

Yes, I want to earn a lot of money. But the money is just ink on paper and a means to an end, which is living a life of financial freedom, being able to buy what I want to buy, travel when and where I want, give to church and charities and family etc.

My advice to you is to take some time and really dive inward and figure out what it is that you want your life to look like. What motivates you? What do you enjoy doing?

And here's they key - get real specific. I am talking down to the nitty gritty details. Know exactly what it is you want.

Then you'll know what drives you and you'll be ready to change your paradigm.

Best wishes in your endeavor.

[briant]

Thanks, Paul!

That was a refreshing read. I'm getting too much from people that tell me I have to have a "higher purpose" and earning money to have the lifestyle I want is not good enough. I mean we all don't have to have a purpose to help others in order to justify our 'why' do we? I didn't think so.

Thanks again,
Brian

[Ree]

I think if you are in the state of being your highest self, you are making a contribution..... you are achieving your highest purpose. Only you can define your highest self. If you've done that and you have a clear path to being that, go for it.

You might want to read Steve's blogs about polarization and figure out where you fall in that neck of the woods.