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Today we head for Phoenix, Arizona on The Passion Test – Reclaim Your Power Tour after getting a wonderful response in Denver and Boulder, Colorado. Yesterday we received the news that when The New York Times bestseller list is published during the week of October 21^st, The Passion Test will be #8 in the How-To and Advice category! How cool is that?

One of the questions that has been coming up as we travel is, what do you do about the mundane, practical things one has to do in one’s life? How do you become passionate about those?

The answer is always the same, “Whenever you are faced with a choice, a decision or an opportunity, choose in favor of your passions.”

This simple sentence contains the key to living a passionate life. There is no choice that is too small to be exempt from this rule, if you have a question about whether it is connecting you to your passions.

I remember when Janet and I were on our way back from speaking at one of Jack Canfield’s advanced trainings. We had dropped off our rental car and as the shuttle that took us to the airport drove away, I realized I had left my suitcase on it.

I tried and tried to get that suitcase back, but it seemed impossible. Nothing worked.

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Janet and I are thrilled to contribute to the Penguin blog this week. We are beginning our Passion Test - Reclaim Your Power tour this week at the Boulder Bookstore in Boulder, CO, tomorrow night at 7:30 PM (303-447-2074) and then The Tattered Cover in Highlands Ranch in the Denver area on Wednesday at 7:30 PM (303-470-7050).

We'll keep you posted as we travel and do our best to share something useful along the way.

Intention - Attention - No Tension

These three simple principles hold the key to creating anything you choose to have in you life.

Intention: Having a clear picture of what you choose to create. This is the whole purpose of The Passion Test process. "When you are clear, what you want will show up in your life, and only to the extent you are clear."

Attention: "What you put your attention on grows stronger in your life." Give attention to the things that you choose to create. On a practical level, this means do everything you can think to do, then come back to the third principle. . .

No Tension: Let go of your attachment to the outcome. You only have control over the action you take, never over the results. This is why one of the 7 keys to a passsionate life is "Staying Open."

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Janet and Chris Attwood are our guest bloggers during the week of October 8th. If you have any questions for either Janet or Chris Attwood, add a comment to any of their posts. Here is some brief information about The Passion Test: The Effortless Path to Discovering Your Destiny: 

Combining powerful storytelling, a life-transforming program of action, and profound expert wisdom from successful leaders, this book shows readers, step by step, how to identify their top five passions and determine what really matters most to them.

About Janet and Chris Attwood

Cofounders of one of the largest transformational online magazines in the world, Healthy Wealthy n Wise and owners of Enlightened Alliances, a marketing consulting firm, Chris Attwood and Janet Attwood regularly spend time with some of the greatest transformational leaders, interviewing them on their passions. Their “Passion Series” interviews have helped thousands of people learn the principles that lead to a passionate life.

After many successful years in the corporate world, Chris and Janet gave up the security of their well-paid jobs and partnered with Mark Victor Hansen and Robert Allen to create The Enlightened Millionaire Program. They are founding members of Jack Canfield’s Transformational leadership Council and active members of Marshall Thurber’s Positive Deviant Network. When they aren’t traveling to the far reaches of the globe in pursuit of their passions, Chris lives in San Diego, California and Janet lives in Fairfield, Iowa.