How to Find your Passion - What did you do as a child?

How do you find your passion - Part 2

Here's a quick task, that follows on from the previous post 'Remember Your Successes".

1. What did you do when you were a child and you had free time?

2. What did you do as a child that made time fly? When you were 'in the zone'.

3. What did you look forward to most as a child?

Maybe it was playing with other kids in the play ground - playing what? Were you directing events, or being in the background? Or that quiet time alone at home making things. What type of things? - crafty, technical, large, outside? Or reading a book. What sort of book? Did you collect things? What sort of things? Were you always on the go physically? or preferred to sit in a corner somewhere?

The idea here is to drill down a bit into the detail. What was it about the activity that you enjoyed? How did you show up in that activity? What sort of skills were you using? What sort of interests were they? Maybe playing with dolls is not going to provide a life passion now, but were you being nurturing when you were playing with dolls? Or creating stories? Or crafting dolls houses?

4 Quick steps to do right now to find your passions

What to do now

1. Make a list of things you did as a child by choice

2. For each item, why did you choose that? What was enjoyable to you about that?

3. For each item, who were you being as you did it? - alone and quiet? a leader? in the limelight? analytical? physical?

4. For each item, what skills were you using?

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And then, for extra points, Which of these activities do you still do now?