A Week Of Fridays!

Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain a heart of wisdom 

(Psalm 90:12)

It’s Friday today and I know that the phrase ‘Thank God It’s Friday!’ is on many people’s lips.

The work week is over and everyone is looking forward to the weekend.

Fridays are always so full of hope and expectation. Everyone is busy making plans – where they’re going to go, what they’re going to do, who they’re going to see.

People come to life on Friday.

It’s a tragic fact that for too many people life begins on Friday and ends on Monday. Too many of us simply exist during the work week.  We feel locked up in jobs that we hate, working for people we don’t particularly like, and performing tasks we can hardly bear.

But…

What if every day of your week could be like a Friday?

What if you woke up every day full of hope and excitement about what was ahead of you that day?

What if every week was a week of Fridays?

Well, it can be.

Not literally of course!

But you can live your life in such a way that you look forward to each day and live life to the fullest – rather than simply killing time.

You can live life with passion.

My post on Passion produced an overwhelming response.

I guess there are a lot of us out there looking for more to life.

To help you further along your journey from ordinary to extraordinary living, I’m making available to you my worksheet ‘Passion: Discovering What You Love to Do Most.’

You can access it by clicking here.

Learn more about empowered living in the next post.

Passion

Delight yourself in the LORD and He will give you the desires of your heart (Psalm 37:4)

In my previous post I talked about understanding your unique personality type as one of the keys to knowing the truth about who you are.

If you haven’t done so already, please take the free online personality test. It will give you valuable insight into what makes you tick.

The next key to unlocking the truth about who you are is passion.

What are you passionate about?

God has wired you in such a way that there are certain things you really care about.

What gets you emotionally involved?

Is there a topic that inevitably comes up in your conversations and has your friends saying, “There she goes again!” or “Don’t get him started on that!”

Passion is what births causes all over the world.

Passion is the difference maker between leading an ordinary life and a life that makes a significant impact in your community and beyond.

We've all heard about Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Mother Theresa, and Martin Luther King, and we all know the difference that their passion made on the world.

But what about ordinary people like you and me?

What about Martha Payne, the 9 year old Scottish girl whose Neverseconds blog has raised over £115,000 and is helping feed almost 2,000 children every day for a year in Malawi.

Or William Kamkwamba the young man who didn’t let being forced to drop out of school keep him from teaching himself how to build a windmill out of scraps of rubbish that powered his family’s house and is now providing power and running water to his entire village.

Your passion is simply what you love to do most.

The questions below will help point you in the right direction.

1. What activities do you get lost in; you lose track of time while you’re doing them?
2. What do you find yourself constantly being drawn to?
3. What would you do even if you didn’t get paid for it?
4. What makes you feel most alive?
5. What absolutely has to be in your life for you to be fulfilled?
6. What can you not, not do?

Learn more about developing empowering belief systems in the next post.