I've been challenged to identify and pursue my personal passion.  Which sounds like it should be easy - but it's not!  I've started a list of possible hobbies/passions and am just wondering what some of yours are?  This would be my avocation; the hobby/past-time that really gets my juices flowing and gives me personal satisfaction.  I always used to get this from my job, but that's not the case anymore and it's a chance for me to find and follow what I love.  If only I knew what that was!

I believe you that it is not nearly as easy as one would think to describe what really makes them tick! I have been trying to figure that out for decades! 

I remember in school, taking some sort of personality test that showed the sorts of careers and jobs we would be happiest in. But, then again, you have to wonder how true those tests are.

I would love to hear about your progress - please post anything useful you find!

That's a GREAT one, Jen!     I'm having a hard time with this "assignment."  I can come up with hobby ideas, but they aren't really my passion, KWIM?  I'm still working on the list, though.  I've got a few weeks before I have to discuss it.  If nothing else, it's opened my eyes to several new hobbies I'd like to try.

So, the truth is this was a homework assignment from my psychologist.  I took her my list of hobbies, and she pointed out they weren't passions; they were hobbies; and sent me off to try again.  What I have since figured out is that I am passionate about myself and making the life for myself that I want.  So I started my Total Money Makeover and became active in SparkPeople to get the weight off.  These are my two passions and I am pursuing them.....passionately.  LOL     I haven't been back to my psych's office yet (I go in for tune-ups for the most part) but I am looking forward to sharing my news with her.  I feel really good about it and it's going well. 

I need the structure and black-and-white facts right now; I do worry that down the road I'll have to deal with my obsessiveness again, but for now it's a healthy, positive experience. 

My passion is Pregnancy and Childbirth and infancy,  All three rolled up together. Ask yourself this, if you had ll the money in the world what would you do?  That is your passion, it isn't neccessarily something you are able to do rght now, but it is your dream, what do you want to do?

Mine would be a home for single pregnant women, of any age, a place for them to get support thrughout their pregnancy and beyond, the support to know they can raise a child on their own and realize that they can fulfill their dreams with a child.