The Search For Passion

The search: When I am confronted with searching for solutions in my life I will usually try to go for a bike ride. Riding is like meditation, my best thoughts for the book, my life and most of my interesting photographic ideas are created while I'm riding my bike. I am isolated from the telephone, computer and the television. The only sounds I hear on a ride are the wind rushing through my hair, my beating heart and my tires on the pavement or desert floor. There are decisions to make, just like the pathway you choose to walk everyday. Riding the steep Gates Pass road through the Tucson Mountains, there is very hard physical work to be done. A combination of balancing my mental and physical core at the same time, has a multitude of benefits including stress relief. When I finish riding thirty or forty miles I have many answers, feel great and have a renewed sense of the pathway I choose to travel.

On a Bike Ride: One day last year as I cycled through Gates Pass my thoughts involved a long distance relationship which was presenting many questions. I began my ride that day with the question floating around in my thoughts, what do I do? I had been riding for 40 minutes and had already thought up at least 100 questions relating to this relationship. Looking down at my wheel a brightly colored object flashed by my tire as I rode toward the Pass. I stopped and picked up the choker above which reads, "Go to any lengths" with the four little hearts. Well there is the answer to my question of the day, my level of commitment, my purpose in life, go to any lengths. This simple message eventually covered my level of commitment in the broader sense of my entire life. I will not stop until I know I have tried every possible pathway, opened every door, made every connection that is presented, and looked deeply inward to see where my desire leads. The energy of the river will power my footsteps to"Go to Any Lengths".

Your Search: When you begin to search for the life of your dreams, you become aligned with your personal destiny. Whether you call it the energy of the universe, the will of god or the soul of the world, this evolving force in your life is trying to provide you with the information and opportunities for which you search. The Passion Junkie Life Concepts relate to changing your vision or your ability to see the world, not only from your point of view, but from an expanded view of the entire world.

Example: Think for a moment about searching a crowded stadium for one specific person while looking through a pair of binoculars. Now if I were to give you a better pair of binoculars you might have an improved chance of spotting this person. If I were to tell you this person is wearing a red jacket this would improve your chances, and then if I were to tell you this person was standing in section 221 waving an American flag you would be able to complete your search to find this person. The first step, is to improve your ability to see, the second step is to improve how you interpret what you see. The third step is to ask yourself the question why am I looking at a person wearing a red jacket, waving an American flag, in section 221 in a crowded stadium through a pair of binoculars? The third step is to question what you are being offered or what you have found on your search and then to decide whether or not this is the true pathway to your own personal destiny.

One million questions: Look back into your past at the lessons your life has presented and begin to think about the future you desire. Start by asking yourself questions, and do not be surprised when the answers start to arrive from many different sources. This new awareness in your thoughts will make these messages stand out like a telegram from the future, go this way, talk with this person, take a class, reach out to this person, listen to this lecture, watch this program read this book, see this movie. For each message or answer you process you find two more but this is the evolving pathway to your future. Search for answers follow the pathway.