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How Finding Your Passion Can Improve Your Life

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Everybody feels passionate about something. Sometimes it takes a while to figure out exactly what that is, but you have big dreams inside of you that are driven by your deepest values and convictions. Discovering this passion will dramatically increase your sense of joy, happiness, and confidence in every area of your life.

Finding Your Passion in Work

The most popular advice for career success is to find something you love, and then find a way to make money doing it. If you can find a way to support yourself working in a field you enjoy, you’ll get up every morning looking forward to doing something that hardly feels like work.

Sometimes, however, you’re stuck in a position that’s less than ideal. If you explore the values and dreams within yourself and match them to particular aspects of your job, your daily grind can quickly turn into a daily pleasure. By finding deep meaning in what you do, your enthusiasm for work will naturally increase.

Finding Your Passion in Your Social Life

When you find your passion, you can seek out others who share that passion and revel in it. You can open yourself up to a whole new circle of people and experiences.

When a group of people who share the same passion get together and talk about it, entertaining dialogue always ensues. Whether it’s a vigorous debate or a lengthy rant, it’s always good fuel for your soul.

Discovering the passion inside of you makes you a more interesting person. Even when you’re spending time with people who have totally different interests, you can exchange ideas on a whole new level and enjoy each others company more when you have more to share.

Your friends, family, and colleagues may feed off your interest and enthusiasm. Your passion may become contagious, and you may win them over to your cause. With more in common, you’ll experience a deeper relationship and more meaningful fellowship when you share your passion with others.

Finding Your Passion in Recreation

Are you easily bored or anxious? The quickest antidote is to discover what makes you tick.

Your passion is the fuel that ignites the joy you were created to experience. Infusing your passion into your weekly schedule, even in small amounts, can have a dramatic affect on the happiness you feel throughout the rest of the week.

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Finding Your Passion Through Romance

Knowing what your passion is can give you a barometer for potential romantic partners. If you find someone who shares your passion, or is at least supportive of it, you can develop a relationship where you can share your passion with someone who feels passionate about you.

Get Started Today!

Experience the power of finding your passion today. All it takes is a few minutes of quiet time alone, an open mind, and a determination to live the life of joy that you were born to live.

Grab a piece of paper and a pen, and ask yourself some questions:

  • What causes stir your emotions?
  • What do you enjoy spending time doing?
  • What bothers you about the world around you?
  • How can you make it better?
  • What things make you smile?
  • What recreational activities do you enjoy?

As you explore, you’ll discover the passion that burns deep within your heart. Ask yourself how you can pursue that passion, starting today, even if it’s only on a small scale. Your life will never be the same.

What small thing will you today to ignite your inner passion? I’d love to hear how you will pursue your passion, so leave a comment and let us know!

TStay Unstoppable,

Ann Rusnak

Ann Rusnak

Do You Know Your Life Purpose?

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Do You Know Your Life Purpose

If you’re like most people, figuring out what you’re supposed to do with your life can be a challenge.

What is a life purpose anyway? For this article I’m going to define it as something that you love to do that also has a great impact on the world. And if you generate an income for doing something you love, even better. It’s that sweet spot where you’re having a great time and doing something wonderful or as many people as possible.

Most of us leave our lives up to chance. We slide into mediocrity with a profession that we can tolerate because it pays the bills and stay there or in a similar situation until we’re ready to retire.

Living your purpose usually requires taking action with the intention of finding it.

9 Ways to Take the Challenge out of Finding Your Life Purpose

  1. Describe your ideal day. Project yourself several years into the future and imagine that your life is essentially perfect. Take a piece of paper and answer these questions… What would your life look like? Are you working? What type of work are you doing? What do you do all day? Who is in your life?
  • Now that you know what the end looks like, what can you do today to take the first step in that direction?
  1. Try a Day of Solitude. Go to a remote place that inspires you. Bring plenty of water, even some snacks, a journal and pens and/or pencils. Just sit with yourself. Let your mind go. Write down the thoughts that appear.
  2. Volunteer. Find an organization in your community that interests you. Doing something worthwhile can be a good way to discover your purpose. Even if you come up short, at least you’ll have done something important.
  3. Assume you can do the impossible. When anything is possible, what would you do? Take action to bring your dreams to life.
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  4. Write. Similar to solitude but not as long. Perhaps the most effective way to discover your life’s purpose is to spend an hour writing. At the top of your paper write, "My life’s purpose." Now spend the next 60 minutes writing whatever pops into your mind.
  • When you find something that stirs strong positive feelings within you, you’re probably on the right track.
  1. Investigate a new hobby. We all have at least one activity we’ve been putting off until a more convenient time. Doing something new exposes you to new ideas and thoughts. Now is the time to jump in and get started. You might be surprised what you discover.
  2. Do something that terrifies you. Skydiving? Public speaking? You might find your life’s purpose during the process of conquering this fear.
  • This can be challenging and it might take some time, but get started today.
  1. Spend a day being totally inspired. From the time you wake up until the time you go to bed, attempt to spend every moment inspired. The right books, music, and movies can help you maintain an inspired mental state.
  • You’ll believe you can do anything. What would you do?
  1. Ask yourself what you would do if you had $10 million. How would you spend your time? What would your life look like? Can you figure out a way to make a living doing one of the activities you would be willing to do for free if you had the time?

Keep trying the above tips until you’ve found something that really excites you. When you find your purpose, there will be no doubt. Also keep in mind that your purpose, may not be one big encompassing thing.

You will need to devote some time to thinking and planning but not so much you forget to enjoy your life. It’s having passions, and the perseverance to pursue them, that makes you a star.

Finding your life’s purpose will make life exciting and meaningful!

Stay Unstoppable,

Ann Rusnak

Ann Rusnak

P.S.
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In Pursuit of Happiness

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Pursuit of Happiness

Do you seek happiness? Are you looking around you for someone or something to come along that makes you happy?

Answering yes to either or both those question is the reason happiness eludes you.

You doesn’t need create or look for happiness. It already exists within you. Happiness is a choice and it’s up to you to choose happiness.

If you don’t want to be happy you won’t be.

A great way to experience happiness every day starts with giving yourself permission to be happy. Focus on the positives of your life instead of the negative. Using affirmation can help you flip your thoughts. Once you become skilled at it, the rewards are pure joy!

Happiness Affirmations and You

Happiness affirmations can help you attain happiness mindset.

What are happiness affirmations?

A positive statement that can change your life.

Affirmations work a lot like mental imagery techniques where you visualize yourself doing something great. Instead of being visual, though, affirmations are spoken.

The words you speak have the power to evoke your emotions and activate your mind to accomplish great things. You program your mind with repetitive positive thoughts that enable you to achieve your goals and live the life you dream!

For instance, when you doubt your right to be happy, you can say to yourself, "I find reasons to laugh every day," or something as simple as, "I give myself permission to be happy."

Giving yourself permission is powerful. It breaks down your mind’s resistance.

When you’re always in pursuit of happiness, you may find that it’s elusive. That’s because your mind believes you need to look for sources outside yourself or for people to "make" you happy.

Every time you use happiness statements, you reaffirm the thought and program your brain to be happy.

Here are some more examples:

Who Can Use Happiness Affirmations?

You can! With the help of affirmations you can change your life, one happy thought at a time. You’ll be amazed at how quickly you can integrate affirmations into your life and how soon they can make a mind shift change.

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When you use positive statements, you push out the negative thoughts, leaving no room for them in your life. When you remind yourself that you have a right and a reason to be happy, you’ll feel happier, and life will suddenly become so much more enjoyable.

It’s certainly worth a try to see if you can change your life one statement at a time and end up full of happiness and joy!

Stay Unstoppable,

Ann Rusnak

Ann Rusnak

P.S.
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Recognize Your Power to Change Your Life

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Your Inner Power

Recognize Your Power and Change Your Life

Embracing your inner power will change your life.

Marianne Williamson’s infamous quote "Our Deepest Fear" begins with the words… "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure."

Let’s look at the word POWER, it might actually release some of that fear to live the life your desire.

Purpose Optimized With Extraordinary Results™

Your life is your creation. Do you know anyone else with a life exactly like yours? While you may not experience the life you desire right now, you perfectly created your current life.

What this suggests is that you have the power to create a new life for yourself and do it just as perfectly.

Recognize your power! Claim it! And use it to forge the life you want!

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Ask yourself, "Am I Optimizing my purpose to create my ideal life?"

Follow these strategies to effectively use your power to change your life:

  1. Take full responsibility. The first step is to take full responsibility for all the good and challenging things in your life. If you believe that you created them, it’s easier to believe that you can change them.
  • Even if some of the things you wish to change aren’t really your fault, it is still 100% your responsibility to change them. Who else is going to do it?
  • Taking full responsibility is critical if you want to change your life. This was a big turning point in my life. During my recovery of putting my identity together, I would need to take responsibility for my life. Trust me… this can be downright scary. No more blaming others or circumstances for your life.
  1. Look at your past successes. Notice all of the good things you’ve accomplished in the past and how you brought them to fruition. Acknowledge the influence and the power you had in your successes.
  2. Look at your past "failures." Notice the influence you had on things that may not have turned out the way you wanted. Maybe you inadvertently created a challenge or didn’t take positive action. Take responsibility for your part in the unfavorable result.
  • Learn to view failing as a positive (though unpleasant) outcome. What have you learned from past "failures" that can help you eventually succeed in your endeavors?
  1. Set new goals. Many people live life like a feather blowing in the wind, with no true direction. It’s important to choose your destination. Leaving things to luck and chance is choosing not to use your power at all
  • Consider that a sandcastle never spontaneously rises from the beach. You have to intentionally build a sandcastle for it to materialize. Luck and chance will never get the job done reliably.
  • Reinforce your goal. Each day, rewrite your goal and imagine how you’ll feel when you accomplish it.
  1. Focus on your priority
  • It’s easy to get distracted. Look at your actions… are they align with what you want. Are your actions in contradiction with your goals… your vision?
  • Reinforce your goals daily, and they’ll become a priority over all the other noise in your head.
  1. Measure your progress. It’s important to constantly measure where you are against your goals. If possible, measure every day.
  • If you’re trying to earn more money, how much money did you earn today? If you’re trying to release weight, how many pounds did you release?
  • You can’t make the proper adjustments if you’re unaware of your progress.
  • Take a step closer to your goal each day, even if it’s a baby step. Every day, do something to move forward toward the life you want. Ask yourself, "What is the one thing I did today to create the life I desire?"

Do you see how you’ve been using your power all along, but perhaps not for what you really want? And you will continue to use that power, whether or not you realize it.

The real question is: will you choose what you’re going to create?

The alternative is to rely on luck and circumstance. Life is short, so claim your power to create the life you want to live.Set a few goals that will change your life and use these steps to make them happen.

To Your Unstoppable Success,

Ann Rusnak

Ann Rusnak

How to Take Care of Yourself Without Neglecting Your Loved Ones

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Take Care of Yourself

As a family oriented person, your loved ones are of utmost importance to you. You spend your days ensuring they are well taken care of. That’s just what you do, and you’re happy doing it.

But is that commitment to your loved ones causing you to neglect yourself? How many times have you bypassed your own desires for someone else?

It’s completely admirable for you to want to take care of your family and friends. But it’s important to balance that with self-care. You may think it’s impossible, but it’s really easier than it appears.

Take a look at some guidelines for balancing self-care with caring for loved ones:

  1. Be creative with quiet time. If you think inside the box, quiet time means time alone without distractions or responsibilities. If you think outside the box, you’ll be able to paint a completely different picture.
  • Instead of foregoing your spa day for babysitting duties, why not take your little one with you? Get mom and daughter pedicures or 2 for 1 back massages. My daughters loved “spa day” with Mom. That way, you’re taking care of your loved one and getting well-deserved pampering for yourself!
  • Suggest that you and your spouse do movie night at home instead of at the cinema. You’ll get the best of both worlds. A favorite movie with warm and cozy blankets!
  • Try scheduling your quiet time when everyone else is asleep or otherwise occupied. You’ll be tempted to get some chores done, but resist the temptation! What’s not done today can be done tomorrow.
  1. Get the rest you need. By far, the best way to be of use to your loved ones is to be fresh and rested. When you neglect your rest, you’ll tend to be cranky and impatient.
  • Being there physically may not be enough for some people in your life. They can tell when you’re doing it out of routine. That’s definitely not the impression you want to give!
  • Avoid feeling guilty about taking a break. There’s no reason to worry while you’re absent. The world can manage to stay intact for a short time while you’re gone.
  • Do you know that you can get some of that rest while having quiet time with your family? Cuddling on the couch with your daughter while she watches cartoons is the perfect scenario!
  1. Share your needs with your loved ones. The only way your family can understand your position is if you share it with them. Give them a chance to hear from you so your selflessness can be reciprocated.
  • Explain to your family members that you like to feel appreciated. They’ll realize that although you enjoy doing things for them, you’d still like to get some recognition.
  • Once they’re aware of your needs, you no longer have to worry about satisfying them on your own. With that scenario you can comfortably focus on their needs while they focus on yours.

It’s easy to feel guilty for taking time for yourself, knowing that those special people need something from you. But have you ever stopped to consider what may happen if you’re unable to be there? Not paying enough attention to yourself could result in you being ineffective as a support base.

If they’re truly your loved ones, they’ll understand your needs. Communication is a two way street. It makes a world of difference if you can learn to balance your own needs with those of your loved ones.

Stay Unstoppable,

Ann Rusnak

Ann Rusnak

Unique Tool to Discover Your True Passion

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Many of us go through life with interests that we never truly nurture and enjoy because we are too concerned about what others think. Of course, that’s no way to live!

Several years ago, I decided to start following my heart to write a book to inspire woman to embrace their Magical Essence™ to live a life of Unstoppable Success.

Finding your passion is an important part of self-discovery. You will be a happier, more balanced individual when you find and develop your passions. Your whole life will change before your eyes!

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Let Me Share Some Ideas on Finding Your Passion

You may think that finding your passion is easier said than done, and it is for many people. However, you can find your passion in two easy steps:

  1. Set your mind to finding your passion. Once you focus on your pursuit of passion, your mind will be attuned to anything that will contribute to the solution.
  2. Use an effective mind tool. There is a well-known tool you can use to help you along the way if you are afraid to branch out and follow your dreams. You can also use this tool to keep going down the right path to find what you are interested in. What is this handy tool? It’s embracing your passion through affirmations!
  • Affirmations can help you push through your self-doubts and help lead you to a more passionate life.

What Are Passion Affirmations?

Many people hear the term "passion affirmations" and wonder what affirmations could possibly be, and why they should use them. Passion affirmations are statements that will activate your brain to focus on and attain the goals you set for yourself.

These statements often are descriptive of the feelings or behaviors you would like to possess in any given situation. They may remind you about your self-worth or the importance of your passions.

How Can You Use Passion Affirmations?

Passion affirmations can be used in moments when you might be having some negative inner dialogue, or when you are second-guessing your desire to pursue your passions.

In those moments of doubt, you may want to use a passion affirmation like, "I have no need to do what others think I should. I am strengthened by doing the things I love to do." You’ll want to believe this even if it’s a challenge in the beginning.

  • You are reaffirming the statement and making it your personal truth every time you say your passion affirmation out loud.

There are also passion affirmations that can help you overcome guilt that you may feel when you indulge in your passion. We all have a right to pursue our passions, as long as they are in balance with our responsibilities. There is nothing wrong with pursuing a passion. You deserve to spend time on you.

When you are having one of those days where you feel guilty for enjoying your favorite hobby or past time you can say, "I am actively involved in my hobbies. It gives me energy and strength after a hard day."

  • You are giving your mind permission to replace negative thoughts with positive ones when you use affirmations.

Passion affirmations not only help you discover your passions, but also enable you to live a more passionate life. This positive dialogue will become second nature in time as it pushes out negative feelings and self-doubt. Being passionate is a way of expressing love for yourself. You should indulge in your passions and remember that they are good for you and those around you.

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Stay Unstoppable,

Ann Rusnak

Ann Rusnak

P.S.
Ready to find your life purpose? All you need to do is discover your true inner ME… Your Magical Essence that makes you unique. Your innerME is meant to shine, meant to sparkle and achieve great things. Begin your journey of discovering how to unlock your dreams with the book The Journey to ME: Empowering You to Live a Life of Unstoppable Success.

Your Life Will Move Forward By Releasing Past Pain

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releasing past painHave you ever been hurt so badly that you thought you’d never come out on the other side? I know that feel like all too well. I thought the only way to rid myself of this pain was attempting suicide. (not something I recommend doing by the way… I do recommend professional help)

Perhaps you’re still holding onto that grief. If you are, then it’s time to learn how to let go of past pain. You deserve the inner peace of letting it go and allowing your life to move forward.

Holding onto past pain and anguish is a kind of self-inflicted torture and will lead to serious health risks like depression. The truth is, clinging to the past, keeps you experiencing the same stuff in your present as well as creating emotional scars.

How can just let go of something you’ve kept inside for so long? It’s not an easy task, but it can be done with some effort, determination and self-reflection. I found that focusing on creating a new legacy for my daughter kept me motivated.

Here are some ways you can let go of past pain and disappointment:

Know what’s holding you back. What are you holding onto and why? Identify the things you’re keeping inside that you shouldn’t be.

  • For example, maybe your best friend betrayed you in a way that broke your trust. Recognize this and figure out a way to finally deal with it. Get in touch with them again, then explain the pain they’ve caused.
  • They may not even be aware they did anything to upset you. Whether or not they apologize isn’t important. While it may be nice, you can’t control others or force them to say sorry. However, by simply voicing your feelings, you are finding closure from the hurtful situation.
  • Getting closure on something that was left open-ended can make a huge difference in letting things go.

Talk it out. If the person who caused the hurt is still in your life, talk to them about the way they made you feel. If that person isn’t available, try to talk to a close friend or professional therapist about the situation.

  • Getting your emotions out in the open can help you get over any resentment or anger you may be feeling. Bottling up your emotions is never a good thing. Let it all out in a constructive way and you’ll be amazed at how much better you’ll feel.
  •  I wrote a letter to my parent firing them. It was a long letter where I shared all my feelings. Tears poured down my cheeks. Writing did a lot in releasing the pent up feelings and emotions. My intention was to mail it. Upon completion of the letter the need to mail it left me. That was the shift that began my inner healing.
  • Journaling about your feeling and experiences is another to "talk it out."

Forgive and forget. It may sound easier said than done, but forgiving someone who has hurt you can be extremely therapeutic. Strive to let things stay in the past and don’t allow them to affect your present.

  • Once you learn to forgive the people who’ve caused your pain, you will find it far easier to heal and move on with your life.
  • Forgiveness doesn’t mean relinquishing the other person’s responsibility for their actions. They are still responsible for what they did. It doesn’t let them off the hook for what they did. Once I really understood that, I was able to let go of how someone’s actions affected my.

Make the first move. You’re in charge of your pain. You’re the one who carries it around with you and you’re the only one who can change its intensity. It’s up to you to take control of the pain and take the first step towards making yourself feel better.

  • Acknowledge that your pain is real and that a positive solution exists.
  • Confront the cause of the pain and do everything in your power to get rid of it.

The best way to move forward is to forgive the past. Since you can’t change the past, you might as well learn to accept it and move on. You’ll be glad you did once you see just how bright your future can be when you regain control of your life.

Make the conscious decision, today, to live your life free from pain and resentment.

Stay Unstoppable,

Ann Rusnak

Ann Rusnak

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Ann Rusnak is a Success Mindset Strategist helping women change their money beliefs that keep them feeling stuck and working too hard. Her unique techniques and programs provide the clarity and confidence to easily and effortlessly attract more ideal clients.

Ann is the creator of the powerful Unstoppable Success System and author of the soon-to-be-published book, The Journey to ME which combines her 25 years of business experience and self-discovery journeyto empower others to live the life they richly deserve

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