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Do you feel passionless — as though everything you do is a shade of dull gray?
感覺生活沒有熱情，所做的所有事都籠罩著一層暗灰色，了無生趣？
Is work boring or empty, or just plain awful? Do you lack adventure and fun in your life? Do you feel stuck but have no idea how to get unstuck?
是工作太空虛乏味？找不到生活的樂趣和刺激？你是否感到自己陷入困境卻不知如何擺脫呢？
A life passion isn't something that drops on you from the heavens or appears from thin air. Discovering your passion is a process of self-discovery and detective work. It requires stripping yourself bare and examining the "real you." This is the you without limiting beliefs, old wounds, ego-based pursuits, and fear.
生活熱情不會平白無故從天而降，抑或浮現在稀薄的空氣中。它是自我發現的過程，需要你真誠面對自己，仔細審查內心的“真我”。這個“真我”沒有信仰限制，沒有過去的傷疤，更沒有自我為中心的追求和畏懼。
If you want to begin today to bare your true self and reveal your own passion in life, here are 15 small actions you can take to get started:
如果你希望從今天起，展現真實的自己找回對生活的熱情，以下15招教你踏上轉變之旅：
1. Shift your thinking. If you believe, like I did, that you aren't great at something, or you don't feel excited about anything and therefore have no passion — then release that notion. If you believe that you are too old, reject that falsehood. Those are excuses which will keep you stuck.
轉變思維。如果你像我曾經一樣，認為自己做不好任何事或對任何事提不起勁兒而導致你失去熱情，那馬上擺脫這樣的想法。你認為學新知識太遲？甩掉這些假話吧，它們是你讓自己繼續淪陷的借口罷了。
2. Become aware of joy. Get a small pocket notebook and keep it with you. Keep track of the times when you feel happy and fulfilled. What are you doing when you feel good? Write it down in your notebook. Pay attention to what feels good to you.
留心發現快樂。隨身攜帶一個小筆記本，記下當你感到快樂和滿足時的每一刻。當你感覺開心時你正在做什么呢？用筆記下來，并且留意那些讓你感到美好的事物。
3. Pinpoint the major drag. What's causing you the most frustration? Your job? A relationship? Your leisure time? A general lack of purpose? Isolate the primary cause and the elements of it that bring you down.
查明讓你停滯不前的主要原因。是什么特別使你萎靡不振？工作？感情？你的閑暇時間？沒有目標？將最主要的那個原因和其他次要原因分開寫出來。
4. What were your dreams? When you were younger, or even now, what did you dream of being, doing, achieving, discovering? Write those down in your notebook. Dredge them up and reignite those dreams.
你曾經的夢想是什么？當你年少時或就是現在，你想成為什么人，做什么事，獲得何種成就或者發現什么？努力回憶這些內容，將它們寫在本子上，重新點燃你的夢想！
5. Acknowledge your skills. Maybe you aren't a virtuoso at something, but you have many skills. You may not recognize them as skills, but others do. Ask your friends and family what you are good at — no matter how small. Make a list of your skills, and make note of the skills you really enjoy.
肯定自身的才能。或許你不是一名藝術鑒賞家，但你有許多其他才能。你可能沒把那些看作是自己的一技之長，但其他人卻恰恰相反。問問你的朋友家人你擅長什么——不管多么微不足道，將這些才能列成清單，并將自己所青睞的幾個打上記號。
