* PINPOINT YOUR PASSIONS *

In a nutshell, here’s what we know: People who are passionate about what they do reach financial comfort and wealth more often than those who are not. Asking yourself these questions can help you figure out your passion.
1. If money were not an issue, what would you be doing with your life?

2. When you go to the magazine racks or the library, what do you like to read about? Alternately, what do you find yourself searching for on the Internet?

3. Think about the last few times you said to yourself: “I’d like to do that sometime.” What was “that”?

4. What do other people say you do particularly well?

5. Think back to how you felt when you were 10 or 12, and try to remember how it felt to be really excited about the possibility of doing something. What could you do today that might make you feel the same way?

6. What do you secretly dream about doing?

7. What are the things you like about what you are doing right now? (They can be small, but you have to name several of them.)

8. What do you think you do particularly well? (these things do not have to be work-related)

9. How do you feel you contribute or could contribute to society?

10. What do you want your children or friends to say about you when you’re gone?


by Jean Chatzky

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