If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen for you, to you and because of you. – T. Alan Armstrong
Article written by BridgeMaker contributor Lorraine Cohen. Please visit her at Powerfull Living.
In a favorite book, The Passion Test: The Effortless Path to Discovering Your Life Purpose,
That got me thinking about what I am really passionate about. When I think about passion, these questions come to mind:
- What lights me up and lifts my heart and spirit with joy?
- What do I love to do that I would do for free?
- What juices me and makes me giggle with excitement?
- What would I fight for?
- What do I stand for and value the most?
What do I love? Gosh, where do I begin?
My personal passions include my cats, my dear friends and colleagues, laughter, nail-biting books that I devour cover to cover, scintillating conversations, flowers, walks in nature, pampering, and great chocolate – things that bring me peace, nourish my mind body and spirit. Treat me to flowers or a day at the spa for mega pampering and I’m a happy woman. Read more
Forever is composed of nows. – Emily Dickinson
Article written by Alex Blackwell. Connect with me on Facebook.
Most Saturday afternoon’s Mary Beth and I have a date at the grocery store. We seldom make a shopping list, but sometimes we do remember to bring coupons. There is an established routine to this task: I drop her off at the front door; park the car; grab the reusable bags; and then meet her inside where we head to the back of the store. My wife and I start our shopping in the frozen food aisle as we work our way to the front.
We huddle by the frozen tilapia and cocktail shrimp to do our menu planning for the week. Schedules are strongly considered as each night is called out to be certain we know what the upcoming week looks like and to plan accordingly.
The moments we spend in the frozen food aisle are more than just figuring out the week’s dinner menu; they are about considering what we need and then making a plan to get it. Read more
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. – Anaïs Nin
Article written by BridgeMaker contributor Ali Hale. Please visit her at Aliventures.com.
I’ve always loved words. English was one of my favourite subjects in school, and I was a bookworm of a kid, having my nose firmly stuck in a book until the age of twelve or thirteen, when I first got online and discovered a whole world of electronic words. (Our modem was too slow to handle graphics – seems like the dark ages now!)
From my early teens, I wanted to be a writer. I started on a novel as a rather unhappy fourteen year old, scribbling in a notebook during lunchtimes in the school library. Thankfully, my dalliance with awful teenage poetry was brief.
It’s with slight surprise that I wake up each morning now, realising that I actually achieved that teenage dream. I make my living from words, sitting down at a blank screen and creating something entirely out of twenty-six different letters and a handful of punctuation marks. On some level, it seems miraculous, like spinning straw into gold. Read more
Words aren’t my passion. Words are my soul’s way of breathing. – Ali Hale
Article written by Alex Blackwell. Connect with me on Facebook.
Editor’s note:The following is a review of Ali Hale’s new eBook, The Bloggers Guide to Effective Writing.
Effective writing is a skill that can be learned. Sometimes knowing a few secrets can make the process of becoming a better writer that much easier; and faster. Ali Hale’s The Bloggers Guide to Effective Writing provides these secrets with plenty of practical advice along the way.
Who is Ali Hale anyway?
Ali is a monthly contributor for this blog. She is also a staff writer for several other major blogs (Dumb Little Man, The Change Blog and Diet Blog) and she writes for her own blog, AliVentures.
Over the past two years, Ali has written over 600 blog posts. Her straight-forward, but always warm style grabs the readers’ attention from her gripping headlines and keeps them interested all the way to her powerful conclusions. Ali has both the experience and talent to be a definitive resource in field of writing. Read more
Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it. - Tori Amos
Article written by Alex Blackwell. Connect with me on Facebook.
For the past couple of years I have seen a mental health therapist every other Wednesday. The reason for this standing appointment isn’t because I’m depressed or suffer from chronic addictions. Similarly, my personal relationships are strong and my career appears to be on the right track.
I don’t see a therapist because I think I need to be fixed; I see a therapist because I want the chance to talk, share and trace my life back to the moments that have defined who I have become. It is with this awareness that I am better able to change or heal the pieces of me that need some attention right now. Read more
