Comments on: How to Live a Rich Life: Portfolio of Passions

By: How to Focus: Five Levels of Mental Focus You Might Not Aware of | Life Optimizer

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:06:23 +0000

[...] Explore your passions I believe everyone has multiple passions that are waiting to be explored. Don’t limit yourself to only one passion. Build your portfolio of passions. [...]

By: 10 cosas a evitar para encontrar la felicidad en la vida — Vida En Orden

10 cosas a evitar para encontrar la felicidad en la vida — Vida En Orden — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:14:59 +0000

[...] te emociona en la vida? Todos tenemos una pasíon. De hecho, creo que todo el mundo tiene múltiples pasiones. Gastar el tiempo en tus pasiones te dará felicidad, sin duda, pues estás haciendo aquello para [...]

By: 10 Things to Avoid to Find Happiness in Life | Life Optimizer

10 Things to Avoid to Find Happiness in Life | Life Optimizer — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:45:05 +0000

[...] makes you excited in life? Everyone has passion. In fact, I believe that everyone has multiple passions. Spending time in your passions will undoubtedly give you happiness since you are doing what you [...]

By: Career Tips: How to Find Your (Potential) Unique Value Proposition

Career Tips: How to Find Your (Potential) Unique Value Proposition — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:36:29 +0000

[...] First of all, you should recognize your multiple passions. I’m sure everyone has multiple passions; it’s just a matter of discovering them. How do you know whether or not something is your passion? Here is a test: [...]

By: Personal Growth and Effectiveness at Life Optimizer

Personal Growth and Effectiveness at Life Optimizer — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:01:58 +0000

[...] This question will help you find your mission in life. Your mission in life should be something which is both very interesting to you and also very useful to others. Look at your multiple passions which represent your gladness, and then find the most painful problems in the world that can possibly be solved by combining those passions. This, of course, requires observation and reflection from time to time. You will find your answer to this question gets refined and sharpened over time. [...]

By: Living a Life that Matters « THE WELLNESS MANUAL

Living a Life that Matters « THE WELLNESS MANUAL — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 16:06:23 +0000

[...] Find place for your multiple passions You do need to find a place for everything that is meaningful to you (your portfolio of passions). When you exclude all other things except a single focus for your life, there is a danger that you might find it impossible to locate the real treasure. [...]

By: Donald Latumahina

Donald Latumahina — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:22:18 +0000

Great quotes and sharing, HP! I agree, something which seems a bit “unfocused” may actually be a blend of different colors from different passions. As you said, “walking into a garden with only pine trees” is boring; we do need different colors.

By: HP van Duuren

HP van Duuren — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 16:15:33 +0000

Yes, finding a place for each passion sounds O.K. to me.

That’s a great concept, than you simply ‘act out’ on who you are to the fullest.

Personally I also have had some doubts about if it’s not smarter to just focus on
only one or two passions. Somehow this feels like the same logic as the notion that you can pick up an object with only two fingers, but this doesn’t mean that I am inclined to cut off a few of my other fingers!

Maybe my blog indeed might seem to be a little ‘Unfocussed’,
Maybe I just AM a little ‘Unfocussed’ who knows, it probably is just who I am.
On the other hand If you walk into a garden with only pine trees it probably isn’t a
nice garden, you could use some variety.

BTW in realation to my ‘Focus’ (a Happy, Health & Rich Lifestyle) this ‘acting out on who you ARE’ does remind me of some quotes I once read, that might shine a little light on this matter as seen from the perspective of how MONEY occurs to people:

1) Money occurs to the POOR, as something you have or don’t have.

2) Money occurs to the MIDDLE-CLASS, as something you DO, (like a job)

3) Money occurs to the WEALTHY, as something you ARE.

Thanks for your post,

All the Best,
HP

By: Personal Growth and Effectiveness at Life Optimizer

Personal Growth and Effectiveness at Life Optimizer — Sun, 13 May 2007 16:07:12 +0000

[...] I believe that developing your multiple passions is important to live a rich life. Besides, it is also important to be able to develop your ideas exponentially. But how do you do that? How do you develop your multiple passions? Here I’d like to share some practical steps you can do to develop your multiple passions. Here they are: [...]

By: Personal Growth and Effectiveness at Life Optimizer

Personal Growth and Effectiveness at Life Optimizer — Wed, 02 May 2007 16:19:50 +0000

[...] Develop multiple passions This step gives you the different ideas you need. I’ve written that the way to live a rich life is by developing portfolio of passions. Don’t narrow yourself to only one passion. Expand yourself and develop your multiple passions. If you are too focused to only one area, it is unlikely that you will develop fresh ideas for that area. Remember that ideas are cross-pollinating. You need ideas from different fields which can enrich one another. Plant and grow different flowers in your garden of life, and they will cross-pollinate. [...]