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About PassionQuest
PassionQuest is a project I repeat occasionally to maintain my positive outlook. It's very easy to make excuses for our failures, especially if we focus
on the negative things in our lives. When we do this we lose our
motivation, we stop caring, and we go through life as if we are asleep.
We have no passion.
One of the things that people comment on to me regularly is that I
am more passionate about what I do than they are. It impressese them,
and so I share my secret with them: I believe that by focusing on the
positive things, we can become more motivated to deal honestly with our
failures. We can set goals, and take steps towards them. And by doing
this we become more productive, more successful, and more happy.
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We can
become more passionate by practising being passionate.
So, I developed this little program to "take charge", to be more
passionate. I call it PassionQuest, and it's very simple. You just have to do the following
things every day:
- Take time to notice and comment upon something that happens
to you that makes you happy. Or something you see or hear. It can be
anything, but it must be something that you didn't cause. The idea is
to open your eyes to the wonderful things around you. It can be
flowers, happy kids, a smile from your neighbour, a really great meal,
something cool that someone did, anything. Just find something that
makes you happy.
- Make someone else happy. Again, it's easy,
but many of us don't. Hold a door for someone, compliment someone, be
nice to a waiter who is having a hard day. Anything, just make someone
happy. It's amazing how much better you will feel as a result.
- Do
something for yourself. And I don't mean shopping. Swim, do yoga, eat
better quality food, whatever it is the goal is to improve your
wellbeing just a little bit. And tomorrow just a little bit more. Think
of your health, emotional state, spirituality, etc.
- Do
something that benefits your future, such as studying or practising a
new skill. Be all you can be, by spending time on self-improvement.
That's it, it's easy - except that if you don't tell anyone about it
then you won't get any feedback and will quickly lose interest. You
have to tell the world about what a great day you're having and what
you've done to make it even better. The internet makes this easy. Just
blog!
And for it to be effective, you have to set goals.
Goals must be
clearly defined, and achievable. Look at where you are, decide how far
you can hope to progress in one month, and then every day list your
achievements towards your goal.
Good: "Today I swam 300 metres, an increase of 50m from yesterday,
and I hope to be able to swim 1000m by the end of PassionQuest month. I
am 1/3 of the way to my goal."
Bad: "I want to learn to swim. Today I went to the swimming pool!" -
there are no numbers. You can't measure your success. You can't say "I
am halfway to my goal."
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If you want to try it for yourself I've made it easy for you, I've set up this site so that you can do it
all here and meet other PassionQuesters. (We can all encourage each
other!) Simply register (provide your name and email address) and you're free to start blogging straight away.
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This is an old article about PassionQuest which one of friends translated for me at the time. It's out of date now, but you get the general idea. Thanks, Mandy!
什麼是Passionquest?
為自己做些事
2007年12月是“Passionquest
”月。在這三十一天裡,我會投入下面的步驟來幫助我在生活上做些正面的改變。
為這個月追求一件個人目標
這個目標可以為任何一件你認為重要的事。只要想想看,在你人生中某個改變是你所想要的,並去實踐它。備註:這個目標必須是你可以測量評估的。“學英語’不適用於此目標,因為你無法評估測量。一個比較好的目標為“學習如何在IELTS口語測驗第二部分時不緊張”。我的個人目標如下:
每天發現一件讓我快樂的事。這並不是我刻意去做的某件事,而是我看到或是發生在我身上的一件事。我們應該要放開眼界,尋求任何可以讓我們快樂的機會。不論這件事情有多麼小。它可以是天氣,街上一瞥的微笑或完成重要事情的滿足感等等,..任何一件事。尋求快樂取決於自己,我們應該要更積極努力的尋求它。
每天做一件讓他人快樂的事
研究報告證明讓自己快樂的最好方法為他人做些事。你或許可以幫助你的鄰居,朋友或是一個陌生人;稱讚他人幫助你;讚美某人的打扮或者是他們所做的事。這些都很容易去做,也真的能讓自己快樂。
每天為自己做件事
多運動。吃有益健康的食物。有些人因為太忙碌以致於睡眠不足。何不在這個月把健康列為第一優先考慮?找個你可以完成的一件事,即使是件小事,每天持續達成它。如果你這個月的目標為減重或是學習游泳25公尺,則每日目標可以用來幫助你達成任務。
做些事來讓你的世界變更好-每天!
粉刷你的臥室。學習一件你平常工作或是課業外全新的事情。或在你的個人網頁上多加一頁。不論你所做的是什麼,它都會增加你的“財富”。請確定這件事不是你正常生活作息中的一部分。此目標是希望大家能做些改變。
最後….告訴大家!
持續記載於你的部落格或寄封電子郵件給你所有的朋友。告訴他們什麼事讓你快樂,為別人做些什麼,現在做些什麼讓你的人生變得更美好。把你的經驗分享給大家,他們將會看你的文章並且給予鼓勵。你則會持續完成計畫到這個月底,因而覺得更好。
還有誰在實行Passionquest?
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