Find Your Niche: Let Your Passion Be Your Guide

byMJC369

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Updated 1 year ago

The Sky is the Limit

What excites you?

What moves you?

What do you LOVE?

Reflecting back on your life, do you notice any patterns?

What has piqued your interest, tugged at your heartstrings, occupied most of your thoughts or time?

I didn't start writing consistently until about a year ago. When I look back to when I was a child, I recall lining up my stuffed animals on my bed and pretending to be a school teacher. I remember having a grocery store playset with plastic food but what I liked most about it was hitting the keys on the cash register. I used calculators for the same reason, but Grammar was always my favorite subject. Surprisingly, I never took up piano despite my love for music...but it's never too late.

I love art, so I took a printing and graphic arts class in high school. Inadvertently, I found myself most preoccupied with the Mavis Beacon typing teacher games. I wanted to learn how to type better and faster. At the time, I thought I was just doing it for fun, but last August 2021, I discovered I had an innate passion for writing, poetry, and teaching the law of attraction through writing.

Within the past five years, I also aspired to pursue a remote, stress-free career and took up medical transcription, which consisted of word processing and editing theory. In addition, I have always been an empathetic and highly emotional person with chronic anxiety and depression, which led me down a whimsical rabbit hole of self-healing through spiritual alchemy and metaphysics. Together, these elements gave rise to my blog, The Alchemy of Emotion.

The Way of Intention

"When you step out on the way, the way appears" ~ Rumi

This quote has always resonated with me.

I initially joined Wealthy Affiliate around 2015, but my spiritual journey had only just begun at that point, so my niche was still unclear. As time went on, I continued to focus on my personal healing from emotional and physical ailments that plagued me since childhood and demanded more time and attention.

I rejoined WA in May 2021 with newfound hope and inspiration through my recovery and manifestation story. I began the WA training course with great enthusiasm but began to lose my zealous momentum by Level 2.

I continued to set my intention:

"I have a wonderful job that supports me in every way. I love what I do; I love my life."

The biggest secret to manifestation is to get into the feeling place of what we want, understanding that needing nothing attracts everything, which leads the way to spontaneous inspiration and impulses to act and follow our heart's desire to align with joy and sense of purpose...

Energy flows where the attention goes.

Step out on the Way...

As I continued to follow my passion and align vibrationally with my desires, I was syncronistically invited to begin writing on Quora, a social media question-and-answer platform. I had been actively sharing spiritual posts on other social media channels but was not successfully connecting with my target audience.

As I began exploring topics and spaces to follow on Quora, I felt that I had found my calling and met my tribe. A community of conscious individuals striving for self-growth and expansion through self-awareness, seeking answers to life's most puzzling questions, solutions to everyday obstacles, and relentlessly looking for a new way in the face of "defeat"...Transmuting pain into possibility, untruth into truth, and dreams into reality.

Quora is comprised of a wide variety of spaces to discuss any topic of interest. Subsequently, as I began to explore and apply my personal life experience and insight to answer relevant questions, I found that it was much more than that. I discovered that my perspective and life experience were more valuable than I had realized. Many more answers were requested as the communities intrigue grew, as I began to learn and teach.

My alchemy of emotion space has grown to 2K within 1 year, inadvertently earning $8 through the Quora revenue sharing program. Monetizing the space for my insight is not my objective. However, I see it as a way to support other businesses as well as inform the audience through relevant ads, links, and beneficial articles. It is also a compensatory means to provide the author with more time to research, write, and curate quality material...

The questions that I answered within the community inspired me to write over 20 posts directly relating to my niche which I found that I could expand upon and repurpose within my AOE website. Providing these links within my corrresponding Quora posts allows the reader explore the subject matter more in depth, if they wish to do so.

Project manifestation led me away from WA for ten months. Iniitally, I thought I had fallen into a dormant state of non-productivity but as a friend reminded me, those resting periods are for rebirth and rejuvenation.

All I had to do was go with the flow and trust in the process.

There was a fire of passion burning within my heart, I just needed to channel it... Within that period of time, I was still on my way and all was provided, I just hadn't realized it yet.

Believing is perceiving.

Within my niche, on Quora, I found the big questions people are asking and the unique challenges they are facing. In addition, I gained more clear insight through their posts into their minds and hearts. This told me exactly what they wanted to know, what their driving force is, and what piques their interest the most.

Quora became the ultimate resource for market research, blog topic inspiration, competitive analysis, content feedback, and a valuable tool for learning, inspiring, sharing, supporting and connecting with like-minded individuals. Questions becoming valuable blog subjects...

It is also a gateway to drive traffic to more insightful, relevant and revelatory material.

...The key is quality, substance, and passion.

What do you have that can improve the lives of others?

What have you done to improve upon yourself?

We all have unique and valuable personal experiences and perspectives.

In referring to my initial WA blog post, "In the end, we'll all become stories;"

So, what's yours?