Episode 67: Finding Your Passion and Living the Life You Love, with Janet Atwood [PODCAST]

Janet Atwood is a very familiar name in the personal development and motivation field. She’s become well known for her courses and teaching regarding passion and a fulfilling life. In this “favorites” conversation Janet shares her “BEFORE AND AFTER” story with David, letting him in on the journey she’s been on, moving from a place of non-passion in a job she didn’t care for, into a life of passion and fulfillment. Be sure you set aside time to listen to this one. You’ll be glad you did.

Your path to passion is not always straight-on.

It’s not always easy to find the passion that can fuel your dream life and the things you are meant to do in order to leave your legacy to the world. Janet Atwood says that she stumbled around for some time trying to find her own passion. She knows that experience well and that it’s one she has in common with most people. On this episode of Crank It Up, Janet shares the story of how she first discovered a clearer picture of her passion, how she made it into her famous tool, “The Passion Test,” and how you can use her tool to discover your own passion.

What IS the passion test?

Janet Atwood created the Passion Test as a self-help tool for herself. She felt the need to find her own passion. She started assembling ideas from reading and learning from speakers, and in time, came up with a basic “tool” to help herself ask the right questions and find the right answers to discover what she wanted to do in the world and what she was meant to do. She organized those ideas and questions into what is now known as “The Passion Test.” Find out how you can use Janet’s tool to find your own passion, on this episode.

Every moment is a gift.

You’ve probably heard this statement often. It could be a trite thing to you. But it’s nevertheless true. The main problem most of us have in recognizing that truth is that we’re not awake to the fact that the moments we live are meant for us to engage in through our passion. Our design, our unique makeup is what enables us to receive the gift of the moment and to step into it in a way that contributes to the world in powerful ways. Putting your attention on that moment, in light of your passion, could be the most powerful skill you could learn. Find out more about this idea, on this episode.

How do you keep attuned to your passion when life is handing you hard things?

We’ve all been there: the place where it’s so dark that you can’t even think about what makes you passionate. What do you do when that time comes? How do you navigate out of the darkness and back into the light of what you are meant to be and do? The first step is to pay attention to the moment, to look for the bright things that are coming into your life: your breathing, your heartbeat, the things that make you smile (even if they are just memories). Getting back into that place of gratitude is what enables you to begin moving out of such a dark time and into a better mindset and season of life.

Outline of this great episode

[1:29] David introduces the topic of “passion” and asks Janet Atwood to tell him about her life: before and after finding her passion.

[6:11] How Janet went from a moment of initial clarity to designing “The Passion Test.”

[16:39] What does it mean that you have to “love yourself?”

[26:02] Jack Canfield’s testimonial about Janet’s Passion Test tool.

[29:27] The beginning days of the Transformational Leadership Council.

Resources mentioned on this episode

www.ThePassionTest.com

BOOK: Success Built To Last

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