How to Uncover Your Heart’s Desire and Become Unshakably Confident

This is the difference maker in becoming unshakably confident and unstoppable. This is your most important mission. Why?

Emmet Fox says, “Your real problem, in fact, the only problem you have in life is to find your true place in life…. Your heart’s desire.”

Everyone has an inkling of their heart’s desire. It may be the thought that drifts through your mind when you first wake up in the morning. It is there one moment and then gone. It may be in the deep, empty hole you try to fill by eating everything in sight when you come home from work on a Monday evening. You know there is something there but you just can’t get a clear picture. Or, it may be a clear vision of yourself that you can see but no one else can, and when you try to speak of it, you get disparaging and discouraging remarks that make you change the subject.

Anna Robertson was a young farm girl who had a desire to paint.

She was told, “Your role in life is to marry a farmer. Have children and make a life by working on the farm with your husband.”

Anna did this. In here early twenties she became a mother. In her forties, she became a grandmother. In her sixties, she became a great-grandmother. When she was in her seventies, her husband died and her children were grown and gone to build lives of their own.

Anna’s doctor told her she was too old to continue the back-breaking work on the farm.

She decided then, before she died, she would do what she always wanted to do. She went to a town nearby and bought some painting supplies and took a few lessons.

When she returned to the farm, Anna set up her easel and began to paint, at the age of 78. Her paintings became popular. Just before she died at 101 years of age, a major New York gallery had a showing of her work.

In the last ten years of her life, some of her paintings sold for over one hundred thousand dollars, each. Anna Mary Robertson, known by her nickname Grandma Moses, became famous for her unique American landscapes. One of her paintings, Sugaring Off, was sold in 2006 for $1.2 million.

She made more in one year of her life, as a painter, than she and her husband earned in fifty years of working hard on the farm.

Studies of successful people have found that those who are doing what they are uniquely qualified to do are usually leaders in their fields of work. They have high levels of confidence because they have found their true heart’s desire and committed to making it the work of their life.

They enjoy their work and would do it without being paid.

These are active, passionate people. When you have connected with your heart’s desire and you are clear about your purpose, it will become easy for you to get out of bed in the morning and get into action.

Einstein said, “Nothing happens until somebody moves”. Making a difference requires that you get into action.

TRY THIS

Get into action now. Go for a walk by yourself in the park, the woods, or by the ocean. Ponder this question: “What is my heart’s desire?” Then sit with your journal and write out all the answers that come up for you. Circle the one thought that excites you the most and explore this thought even more.