10 Thought Provoking Questions to Help You Find Your Passion and Choose Your Business

If you are new to this blog it’s important to know that I write with the intention of empowering youth to develop an entrepreneur mindset.  So if you already know and are working your business, you may not find all of my posts useful for your situation.  However, many of them can serve as good reminders and motivation for you as well.  I hope that you have as good a time reading the posts as I have had writing them.

We have considered a variety of exercises to do and steps to take toward finding your passion.  In this post I want to provide you with 10 questions meant to provoke a deeper level of looking for your passion and choose your business.

Spend some time considering each question.  Go as deep as you can with these questions.  When you get an answer, ask yourself, “is there more?”  Write down the ideas and insights that pop into your head.  Look for connections or themes between your answers.

  1. What do you want to be known for in your life now and in the future?
  2. If you could change just one thing in the world, what would that be?
  3. What makes you feel good about yourself?
  4. What is a goal that you have and how will you achieve it?
  5. If you won a million dollars how would your life change?
  6. What do you think your strengths are and what skills do you need to work on?
  7. If you are feeling unmotivated, who or what helps you get yourself moving again?
  8. Do you see yourself as a leader or a follower and why do you think that?
  9. If you could spend a day with anyone – past or present – who would it be and why?
  10. What are you not spending enough time doing?

Did you learn anything new about yourself from considering these questions?  Are you closer to finding your passion(s) and choosing your business?

 

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Rob Scott - October 6, 2012

That’s a great post, I only wish someone had asked me those questions when I was at school. It took me 5 years after completing school and working in a dead end job for me to realise what it was that I wanted to do. The only advice I was given at school was ‘go to university’ which wasn’t an option becasue I didn’t know what I would have studied
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    Julia - October 6, 2012

    Thank you for coming by and leaving your comments Rob. I think it is essential that we prepare our young people to think about their future in meaningful ways so they can make good decisions for themselves. College is not for everyone. Many of my young clients and college are not a good fit. Besides, in our current reality, there are many college educated folks who can’t find work. We also have to change the paradigm of schools and social service agencies that push college. While college is a wonderful thing and I recommend it highly, it isn’t always the right path and our kids have to learn economic self-sufficiency whether they go to college or not.

Nanette Levin - October 7, 2012

These are great question, Julia! There seems to be a theme going around in the blogs this week speaking to living your passion through work. The sooner youth realize they’re doing themselves and their employers a disservice if they don’t love their work with a clear picture of how this pertains to their life plan, the longer they’ll live happy.
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    Julia - October 8, 2012

    I quite agree Nanette. Thank you for stopping by. My greater purpose and mission is to guide youth into the mindset of being an entrepreneur and creating their own work, being responsible for their own economic self-sufficiency. The economic reality of our current time requires that they at least have the basic skills to do this and the opportunity.

Bonnie - October 9, 2012

Hi Julia,

I think one of the problems with today’s society is that parents who do not run their own business (and work a dead end job) all fear their children will end up the same way.

Because of this mindset, their desire is to see their children well-educated and fit for grabbing a better job than they currently possess. While this doesn’t think of the children’s wants and desires, it does prepare them for life.

I’m curious to know what the percentages are for work at home parents who let their children choose their path versus the dead-end job parents who require their children to go to college.

Had I listened to my father, and gone to college, I would be somewhere right now working as a Veterinarian… instead of following my dream to be my own boss as a writer.

Kind regards,
– Bonnie xo
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    Julia - October 9, 2012

    I don’t know those percentages Bonnie. What I do know is that we are in the midst of a cycle of change in both our economy and the job situation. Regardless of whether or not people have a college degree, finding work is going to be more of a challenge. Encouraging entrepreneurship from an early age is essential and should be required in our schools. That and a more technology related education will help prepare our kids to do well in the future.

    I went to college and feel I benefited greatly, but not everyone is college material and the cost is very prohibitive for a lot of families so not everyone can go. I did follow a career path and had a job all my life, and now I’m using all my knowledge and education to be an entrepreneur and encourage young people to at least develop that mindset so they can have more choices. I wish I had gotten an earlier start, but I’m here now.

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