Shut Dem All: Pursuing Your Passion

I believe that life is meaningless without a real purpose. I mean what’s the point of waking up every single morning if you don’t even have a purpose in life. By purpose, I simply mean your aim or your dream that you want to achieve badly.

I knew many people personally, who tells me that they don’t even know what they want to achieve in life. If you’re too like them and don’t even know what’s your purpose in life. Then, this post is for you.

I believe that each individual is born different and have a different mindset. If I like something, it doesn’t mean that you also gonna like it. You may have some other interest.

And this is what happens when it comes to finding your passion.

How You Can Find your Passion?

For me, I like to write and love to code websites. For me, it’s a fun thing to do. But it doesn’t mean that others like it too. I have seen people who hate writing. (I will not surprise if you’re too one of them. 😊)

So, everyone has their own passion and interest. But the thing is how can one find that passion?

Well, if you know what you love to do, and there’s a good market in that thing. Then, you’re good to go. Just go out there and follow your passion.

But if you’re like those who don’t have any single clue what they want to do in their life, or what they love to do, then there comes the real problem.

But don’t worry, I will help you to solve your problem and I promise if you follow all the tips I give you in this post, you’ll know your purpose in life.

Here are my 5 tips that you should follow to know your real purpose or passion:

1. Write down all the things you love to do.

Well, you have to face it. We are all good in some things, the thing is some of us don’t even know in what we are good at. Those who find out in their early age these things and focus on it are those who master their passion in upcoming years.

Sit down comfortably in a quiet place and think about all those things you do in your day. Now think what you really love to do and just write these things down.

It doesn’t matter if it seems silly to you, just write down everything that you love to do. And at the end of this process, you’ll see how much things you can do or love to do.

Here is an article that you should read: 3 Actionable Tips to Find Your Passion

2. Think about what you can do in your whole life.

I think the only way to truly find your passion or you can say dream work is just thought what you can do in your whole life happily. I mean I choose to blog because I love to do it and I enjoy it. I can do this my whole life without any hesitation and that’s why I choose it.

So, if you’re going to find a job, or starting a new business, think once, can you do that job for rest of your life happily?

And if your answer is NO, then it’s pretty clear. You should do something else.

I mean there’s just only one life. So, do you really wanna spend it on some work that you don’t even like to do!

Think about it carefully and you’ll see how your perspective towards things will change.

Here's an article that you should read: One Life, No Regrets

3. Explore your interest.

I know I know you don’t know what’s your interests are. But that’s what I’m saying you to explore. Exploring your interest is the best way to find your passion. In fact, I too found my interest of writing and blogging through this.

So, what you have to do?

Just try out different things here and there. For example, try out blogging, try out making YouTube videos, try out singing and so on.

Who knows what you eventually gonna love and will spend the rest of life doing that work.

4. Break up with the ‘ONE’.

Another solid reason why most people don’t even love what they’re doing or can’t even find their passion is they try to find that ‘one’ best thing that they love.

I mean we keep looking for that one thing but, in this process, we keep feeling that something is missing.

When you’re living your life on your purpose then you should live it with your rules. I mean do whatever the heck you wanna do. Don’t just suppress yourself to do one thing, or don’t keep looking for that one thing.

That feeling that something is missing goes away when you lead a passion-filled life. The need to seek our purpose comes from a lack of passion. When you don't feel connected to your life, you lack purpose and passion. To fix this emptiness simply add more passion.

5. Keep doing things that you love to do.

When you keep doing things that you love to do and eventually if you start getting seen results from your work, then, believe me, you’ll do that thing more and more.

Just take an example of blogging. You love to blog, but you’re not sure whether you can continue with it or not. So, if you keep doing it and one day you see some results from it, then believe me all your doubts get clear and you’ll start doing it more and more.

The only thing is you need to be consistent towards your work.

Now you have got my point. If you are already doing some things, then keep doing them with consistency and try to improve your skills. When you start seeing results from your work, you eventually going to love your work.

So, this is it. Hope you love this article and found it helpful.

If you love it, then please do share it with those who need to read this.

Thanks. 😊

Didn’t know about you, but I can’t just live in regrets. I mean there is just only one life and tell me one thing, do you want to live your whole life in some regrets?

For me, it’s a big fuckin NO.

I think that’s one of a reason why I keep hustling all the time because in my late 30’s or 40’s I don’t wanna live in regrets. I want to achieve something big and for it, I will do whatever it takes.

So, in today’s post, I will talk about this topic and will be going to share my opinions.

Live in reality.

Just tell me one thing, do you believe that you’ll get another life? Do you think that you’ll get another chance?

Hell no!

There’s just only one life and you have to realize it. I mean if you wanna be a singer, go for it. If you wanna be a painter, go for it. But don’t just let your dreams for next day. The irony of life is that death is unpredictable. It may seem a little bit rude or harsh to you, but this is true. I mean no one can predict their death or future.

Talking about myself, I wanna be a blogger and an entrepreneur, so I am working for it now. I can’t just let this work for tomorrow or on some other day because I know or you can say realize that I can be dead at any moment.

Well, it’s the harsh truth of life and you’ve to realize it. If you wanna do something, do it now. There’s nothing like tomorrow or the next day. There’s just only today.

Living in Regrets.

I would rather want to live in the failure, instead of living in the regrets of not even trying. I mean if I want to do something, if I want to achieve something, I will work or it. It may seem impossible to you, but for me, it’s my dream and I will do whatever it takes to achieve it.

If you say that hey Manish! Just forget about it, you can’t achieve it. Well, fuck you. I didn’t ask for your opinion. I have belief in myself, and that's what you needed too.

Well, just think about it. You sitting on a chair in your late 30’s or 40’s, thinking about all those opportunities you missed when you were young. Do you really wanna spend the rest of your life in that fuckin regret?

If not, then do something about it.

Get out from your comfort zone and work hard. I know a comfort zone is a beautiful place and you want to play safe, but listen! Nothing ever grows in the comfort zone and if you want to achieve something big, then you have to get out from your safe zone. You have to take the risk.

“Take the risk, that’s where legends are made.”

Keep it in mind, “in the end we only regret the chances we didn’t take.”

There’s only one fuckin life. Do something about it, my friend.

You want to start a blog. But the thing is you don’t know how to do it. You didn’t even have any specific knowledge about any field like finance, photoshop, etc. You just want to help others with their daily life problems and want to share your thoughts.

Well, if this is you, then don’t you worry. It doesn’t matter if you’re completely clueless about this blogging thing. After reading this guide, you’ll be able to make a beautiful and effective blog on your own.

And you know what’s the best part of having your own blog is? You can even make money from it.

Yes! You read it right. You can even make money from it. Isn’t it sounds interesting that just by helping others and doing what you love you can even get paid?

Well, this is true though. You can make money, but the thing is, it will take a lot of time and efforts to make a really handsome amount of money from a new blog.

But don’t you worry, I will make everything clear to you in this guide.

So, let’s dive into it.

#1 Step: Choose the Niche.

Before getting started and creating a blog, first of all, you have to choose a niche for your blog. Do you know what the heck is a niche?

Well, a niche is basically the subject or topic on which you’ll make your blog. You can create a blog around any niche (in which you’re interested) but in this guide, we will specifically talk about the personal development niche.

Another thing, many newbies take personal development niche as all wrong. They think they can publish some inspiring stuff and that will work like charm. But this is not how it works.

Personal development niche is pretty big in itself. You have to narrow down it to a specific topic, and then have to create content around it.

For example, in personal development niche, there is health and fitness sub-niche, there is quotes sub-niche, there are daily-life problems sub-niche, and so on. I think you’ve got an idea about how big this niche is. So, first thing first, you need to narrow down it and have to create content around that sub-niche.

This will make you an authority in that niche and if in future you would publish your own products or services, people will more likely to buy that. Because they know you are a trusted person in that niche.

So, choose a niche and then narrow down it according to your knowledge and passion is very important.

#2 Step: Choosing a domain name.

After choosing your niche, the next step is to choose a domain name for your blog. Well, let me guess, you don’t know what the heck is domain name right?

Let me clear it. Domain name is basically the name of your blog/brand by which people will going to remember you and can reach up to you. Just like, www.shutdemall.com is my domain name and I have registered it.

In simple words, the address of your blog, by which people can reach up to you is your domain name.

You should choose a name that fits up to your blog and which defines your blog. A domain name should be easy to remember and easy to type.

Bonus tip: Avoid using a domain name which has symbols in it. It’s really a headache to type such domain.

You can get your first domain on GoDaddy.com for a very low rate. I too have purchased my domain name from them and didn’t have face any problem as far.

#3 Step: Buy a good web-hosting.

After purchasing a good and simple domain name for your blog, the next step is to purchase a good web-hosting. Well, let me guess again. You didn’t know what is web-hosting, right?

Well, don’t worry. I will make it clear to you. Web-hosting is the server on which your site/blog will run. Understand it in a way that, a domain name is the name of your brand and web-hosting is the building in which you will operate your business.

You need both in order to run a successful business, right!

Before purchasing any web-hosting, you should have to keep it in mind that how much traffic that hosting can handle. Well, in starting your blog will not get that much traffic, but after some couple of months, you’ll going to get a handsome amount of traffic. So, if you buy a poor and low-quality web hosting your site will keep crashing and you’ll lose traffic as well as readers too.

Well, there are tons of hosting companies available in the market. So, which one should you choose?

I highly recommend you to go for Bluehost web-hosting, it’s the most trusted and widely used hosting across the world. Bloggers like Neil Patel, Brian Dean, Harsh Agarwal too use it.

So, you can simply say that it’s the most trusted and high-quality web-hosting available in the market.

Bonus tip: You can purchase Bluehost web-hosting on a special discount from here: Special Discount on Bluehost Web-Hosting

#4 Step: Link the domain and install WordPress on your hosting server.

Now the things get little tricky here. But don’t get frustrated, after all, I am here to help you.

To link the Domain to your hosting server you need to change the DNS and Nameservers of the domain. You can do that in the management domain section.

If you have purchased your domain from GoDaddy, you can go to your account and then head over to my domain section. And then choose that domain which you want to connect. After that, look up for manage domain option and there you’ll see the option of Nameservers and DNS. You have to change them according to your hosting server DNS.

And after linking the domain to your hosting the next step is to install WordPress on your hosting server.

Well, if you have purchased hosting from Bluehost then it is just a one-click process. Bluehost gives you the option of installing WordPress on just one single click. (That’s another reason why I recommend you buy Bluehost hosting.)

Whether if you have purchased hosting from other sites, you have to go to your cPanel and from there you can install WordPress.

Well, if you still didn’t get these instructions, here is a video tutorial that will help you to do so.

#5 Step: Choose a simple and good-looking theme/template for your blog.

Well, there are tons of free templates available in the market for WordPress sites. You can pick one which meets your requirements. However, if you are confused with what theme you should choose or what design you should go for, then I recommend you take a look at these blogs: positivity blog, the minimalists, jamesclear, Mark Manson.

These are all very successful blogs in personal development niche. You can take inspiration from these blogs and can set up your blog too.

Pro Tip: Do choose a theme which is clean and user-friendly.

After choosing the perfect theme, you need to customize it and make some major changes. Well, don’t get panic. In WordPress, it doesn’t require any coding knowledge, it can be done by just simply drag and drop.

You’ll find it easy too when you do it yourself.

#6 Step: Write informative and useful articles.

Well, it doesn’t matter how good your site looks. If you have shitty content in it then nobody gonna come to your blog.

So, if you want to attract readers to your blog then, the next step is to write rich quality and informative posts which helps the readers in some way. In personal development niche, almost every newbie writes articles about some kinda inspirational stuff and all. But the thing is it won’t work.

Yeah, it will give your audience a little motivation, but if you want to become an authority in your niche and want those visitors to become your regular reader, you need to answer their major life problems. Write content mainly about improving their skills or solving their problems in some kinda way. This will work like a charm, believe me.

Yeah, you can write those inspirational kinda articles, but people won’t gonna look up on google for them. They look up for google to get a solution for their problems. Think in this way, and write articles around those problems, so that people will find you through google too.

These types of articles will also gonna help you for the long run and especially if you want to make some money from your blog. You can make your own products or can recommend other’s products to your reader which will solve some of their problems.

#Final Step: Spread out the word.

Well, first of all, congratulations! You’ve successfully created your own blog and have written some valuable content.

Now, here comes the final step and you can say a never-ending step.

You’ve to spread out the word.

Well, if you have thought that people will gonna come and see your blog just because you’ve great content on your blog, then you’re totally wrong. This will not work in this way. Especially, this blogging thing. You have to spread out the word on yourself.

Share your blog with your family, friends and tell them to share it with their friends and so on.

You should have to create a social media presence and have to build your brand on social media too. SEO will take a lot of time to get decent traffic and to rank posts. So, till then, you should rely on social media and get the most of it.

I can speak about it all day, but this would go off topic. So, you should read this article: Social Media Branding: Tips to Grow Your Brand on Social Media

And if you want to get most of your social media accounts then you can buy this online course from Udemy: The Complete Digital Marketing Course - 12 Courses in 1 It will help you to master the social media.

Still, if you want me to make a sperate post on how to get traffic to your blog, let me know in the comment section below, I will definitely make one.

So, this is it. Hope it helps you. If you still have any queries or problems, you can ask me at Instagram at @notmanishkumar or you can just simply write down a comment below.

Happy Blogging.

See you soon.

Manish Kumar.

"Success without passion is like coffee without sugar. Sure, you'll make it, but what about the taste!” -Manish Kumar

That's what applies in life. Better you'll succeed in life, but what about your happiness?

A job or career without a passion, will never gonna make you happy. The first step of falling in love with what you do is to do the things in which you're passionate about.

As for this post, I do a survey and ask people about their passion and what they want to become in their life. And I was so surprised to see the results.

Half of them, don't even know on which things they are passionate about and only a few of them, clearly knows what they wanna do with their life.

So, which category you lie in?

Are you among those who have a clear vision of their future, or are you among them who didn't have a single idea, what should they do with their future!

Don’t worry if you lie in the second category, I have made this entire post to help you to get you to know about your potential and will help you to turn your passion into your career.

So, let's get started:

3 Actionable Tips to Discover Your Passion and Live a Life You Love:

1. Find your uniqueness.

Don’t get distracted by the people around you. What they do is their passion, not yours. It doesn’t matter how successful they become, or how rich they became. If you too copy them, believe me, you’ll not go to achieve those heights, which they have achieved.

Why?

Because they have a passion for that work. They have found their uniqueness, the thing in which they are good at. If you are just copying them for the sake of money or just because they became successful, I suggest you think twice.

Instead of following someone around you, find your uniqueness. Find your passion and pursue your dreams.

2. Write it down.

Thoughts get flowed when we write them down. You’ll never get a clear vision of what’s inside of your mind, till you write all your thoughts down.

Just take a piece of paper and start writing. Write all those things which you love and which gives you happiness.

Don’t think about anything else, just write all those things. It only takes few minutes to do this. So, why shouldn’t do this right now!

When you finished writing, you’ll see a lot of different approaches, a lot of different businesses ideas.

3. Do some research.

It’s the most important part of this process. After writing down all those thoughts, you have to do a research on which niche is best in making money and which niche have the large audience.

Let’s imagine you love writing and singing. (I know these both have a huge market, but you just imagine) Writing has a limited market and there are very fewer chances of making money from it. Whereas music has a huge audience and it’s the most profitable niche.

So, which one will you choose?

If you really want to be rich and to be successful, you should go for music. Because what’s the purpose of getting famous in front of a very small audience. Broad your thinking, start thinking big, work for big and proportionally you’ll achieve big.

Conclusion:

It’s true that true success can’t be achieved without passion. I mean what’s the purpose of making millions of dollars without doing what you love! You’ll never get happy.

Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and many more successful people get succeed because they have passion and they know their potential. They didn’t run behind someone else. They all make their own way.

So, here’s one question for you!

If they can do so, why can’t you?

They are not superhumans, nor they have any special power by birth. They all just made it through their struggle, hard work, and consistency.

Make sure you didn’t do anything or miss any chance which will make you regret your whole life.

“Loving what you do, and doing what you love is the way to succeed.” -Manish Kumar

“Success doesn’t come what you do occasionally, but from what you do consistently.”

If you really want to become successful, your mind should be focused on your aim.

If you think that you will do some hard work today and you will be free for the rest of the life, then you are totally wrong.

If you want to reach the top and really want to be on the top, then you should give all your dedication, willingness, and hard work towards your work/aim.

Don’t get desperate if your hard work doesn’t pay you today, believe me, it will pay you one day but only if you stay focused on your work.

I know sometimes our mind get distracted and we lost in our thoughts and forget to work.

This is something I have struggled a lot in the past. But over the years I have found a few things that really help me with this.

1. Remember why you are taking actions.

“Nothing can motivate you more other than yourself.” -Manish Kumar

This can be the most powerful force for you to keep you working.

Find your top priorities and reason for why you are doing what you are doing.

Always keep in mind your aim and the reason why you are doing it, it will motivate you to do things even better and to do more hard work.

When there is only your aim traveling here and there in your mind then you will see the difference yourself. Your mind will direct you automatically to do more hard work.

But I know it’s easy to say and hard to do. Our mind can easily be distracted.

So, for this purpose, you can do these things. These will surely help you.

*Write down your most important reason. Take a piece of paper or sheet and write down your most important reason for why are you doing what you are doing.

*Place that paper in a place where you can see that every day. Now place that paper or sheet on which you have written your most important reason on a place where you can see it every day.

So, that every time when you will see that paper, it will hit your mind and will going to remember the reason for your hard work.

2. Take small steps on some days.

There is nothing wrong when you choose to take small steps on some days.

You can take small steps on some days when the big ones seem to be so daunting. But don’t get too comfortable with this approach.

It doesn’t mean that you only take only small steps. One day you must have to take big steps too, but on some days, you can take small steps.

Sometimes the big steps seem to be so daunting, so terrified that we can’t dare to take them.

For this purpose, you can do some certain things like,

*You can cut down a big work to small pieces.

*Dedicate time to each piece of work.

*Take short breaks between your works.

Everyone has fears. Some have fear of hard work, some have fear of failure. But do you think the man on the top may ever be reached there if he didn’t overcome his fear!

“Instead of running away from your fears, face them.” -Manish Kumar

Hope these two habits will going to affect your life as these affect mine. If you too have any habit or trick which you think might be helpful for others, you can tell that in the comment section below. We would love to hear from you.

“Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.”

Hey buddy, how you doing? Hope you are doing well and living a happy life.

Let me ask you a simple question. Do you have any passion? It can be anything like blogging, singing, making videos, etc.

If yes, then you will know how much pleasure these things give us. No matter how tired we are, we never get bored out of these things.

Now imagine what would be your life, if you get paid to do what you love, to do things of your passion. It would be such a great and enjoyable life.

Here is my last question for you! Do you want this life as yours? Do you want to make your passion as your career? Do you want to get paid out for your job?

(I think only a fool will say No to it!J)

Yesterday, I was reading my blog and looking at some posts, then I suddenly realize that I didn’t have made any article about passion. (How fool am I)

So, then I decided to make another category in my blog “Pursuing Your Passion” and here I will write frequent posts on how you can turn your passion into a career.

I think that’s enough for this intro.

Now let’s come toward to post on pursuing your passion.

Today in this post, I will talk about the first step of pursuing passion i.e. how to start or how to overcome the fear of getting failed?

How to overcome the fear of failure?

I personally knew many peoples who don’t even know about their passion, or they haven’t set any aim for their lives. But I am taking this post as the first step because of those who didn’t have any aim, I can’t help them to set their aim. It’s not that I love blogging, then they could also love it. So, they should take that first decision on their own.

If you are still getting frustrated in finding your passion, here is something that will help you. I highly recommend you this: Find your Passion and Purpose

Now, let’s talk about how you can overcome the fear of getting failed!

Here are my 3 personally tried methods which I hope will work for you as same as they work for me.

1. If you didn’t try today, you will regret your whole life.

When I first find out my passion for writing and blogging, then I feel scared to write and to express it to the world. But I keep in mind this short line, “If you didn’t try today, you’ll regret your whole life.”

Is it help me? Yes! As per the time passes, I feel comfortable to write and feel free to share, to express my thoughts with the open world.

As soon as you get out of your fear, you will feel free and proud of yourself.

Always keep in mind that, “It’s never been too late to start.”

2. Doesn’t give a shit about the world.

When I first started blogging, everyone says that what is this crap are you doing! Why are you even doing it? And so on. But I always ignore them and now my blog has reached over 50,000 page views in just 6 months.

Now, I always think that if I would listen to those peoples on those days, I would never get this.

I know to you it may not be that much impressive to get 50,000 pageviews, but for me, it’s one of my greatest achievement.

Let me tell you another story of a man whom you may know Sandeep Maheshwari.

In his life, he does many jobs and gets many failures. Each time he gets a failure, everyone starts telling him to stop and do a safe job. But he didn’t listen to them and now he is the CEO of ImagesBazar.com and is on a great success.

Read his full life story here: Success story of Sandeep Maheshwari

I think now you have might have understood what you should do, whenever someone tries to stop you from pursuing your passion.

What you should do?

Yes! Don’t give a damn and prove them wrong with your success later.

3. You must have to work alone.

“No one will be going help you if they didn’t see any benefit in it.”

Never feel so sad or alone if no one helps you. If no one stands by you. Always keep in mind that sun is only one, where stars are everywhere.

You should have to be the sun, not the stars. You should create your own unique image in his world. Otherwise, you will remain a star. And keep in mind that, “To be the sun, you first have to burn.”

You can’t make your unique image without standing apart from the crowd.

Take the fear out of your mind and get ready to pursue your passion. Now it’s time to turn your dreams into reality. Get ready and start working now.

Hope these methods will help you. Let me know how these work for you by writing down your comment below. And if you are new to my blog, then don’t forget to subscribe to my blog newsletter, so that you can stay in touch with us and never miss our future posts.