How To Live A Passionate Life

“How To Live With More Purpose, Passion, Mastery And Autonomy… Consciously Decide Your Deepest Values”

When you effectively satisfy The Ten Steps To Wealth, you get to live the life you want… you get to live what you value the most.

In a general sense, we’re designed to move towards what we want and away from what we don’t want… towards what we value and away from what we don’t value.

It’s an inbuilt survival process and while it’s difficult to get around, strong psychosocial pressures ensure you eventually comply and let go of what you want.

The social and cultural conditioning you experience is designed to shape you to fit in with certain stereotypes. It’s a major impediment to following your passions and has most people doing things they’re not passionate about.

The long-term results are expressed through unhappiness and regret.

What you value and what you don’t value literally shapes the journey you take through life. At the base of not being able to effectively get what you want is a series of subconscious values shaping your behaviours in other directions.

When you say you want something but behave in a fashion that prevents you from getting it, you’re observing the evidence of cultural shaping.

A rewarding life is one that’s based on choice and autonomy. It’s a life that has you following your passions, deriving meaning from those passions, and pursuing mastery in the expressions of those passions.

In terms of motivation, values, goals, meaning, beliefs, engagement, purpose and passion are deeply connected concepts. When you strongly value something, it’s almost impossible not to move towards it. Your subconscious brain does a lot of the work for you.

However, trapped within layers of cultural conditioning, parental demands and social norms, is obedience. As a result, few people follow their passions. While they learn to be good at what they do, they seldom live within “peak flow” experiences.

While the social engineers get what they want, individuals are seldom fully expressed and generally end up with less happiness, less connected relationships and less vital health. It’s a heavy cost to pay.

So Michelangelo has a lot to teach us on many different levels.

As humans, we strive to achieve what we value because it gives our lives purpose, meaning and a sense of direction. Its goals, visions, and dreams that capture the focus of our attention and have us engaged.

What you value, becomes the unconscious filtering mechanism that determines the choices you make, the emotions you generate and the behaviours you employ.

When you’re crystal clear about your values, you make better choices. When you’re unclear about your values, your choices are driven by imprinted subconscious values.

If you want something but don’t seem to be able to get it, look towards your values. At the deepest level, what you want may be more connected to desires than deep values.

If what you desire has no real meaning for you, the filtering mechanisms in your brain will ensure you never notice opportunities to fulfill your desires.

If autonomy, mastery and living your passions are important, then mastering The Ten Steps To Wealth will allow you to fund all the growth you need in order to gain the space to live with economic and personal freedom are.

Paul Counsel