A secret for a happy life is simple: DO WHAT YOU LOVE and LOVE WHAT YOU DO.

But the point is How to do what you love? How to find what you love?

Here 12 steps to find the way that will make you happy.

1. Pinpoint the thing(s) that make you feel the happiest, freest, and most satisfied when you’re doing them.Note also your talents, passions and needs.
2. Find how they could respond to other people’s needs.Remember any life is service in a great sense. We are what we do for others. And this is also how you will be paid for it.
3. Write down these things.
4. Decide how you might want to incorporate them into your life.
5. Ask around for help (from family, friends…) if you can’t. i.e., financial help to tide you over when you’ve quit your job to take up the new challenge.
6. Think more about these things you do love.
7. Talk about doing them as a living (with your friends, family…, etc).
8. Seriously consider how much they might enrich your life, if you start doing them.
9. Get skills to do it. Go back to school to learn about what you love (if what you love is like a subject — literature, philosophy, history… etc). Or get work experience, start a website on it or volunteer.
10. Make what you love your life — make it a reality.
11. Dream big.
12. Don’t give up on your dream(s), no matter what anyone else says.

Vocabulary

Pinpoint — Определить

Passion — Страсть, увлечение

Respond to the needs — Удовлетворять потребности

Incorporate smth into life — Внедрить в жизнь

Quit the job — Бросить работу

Take up а new challenge — Браться за новую задачу

Get skills — Приобрести навыки

Make smth a reality — Воплотить в реальность

Dream big — Мечтать по-крупному