Passion Assessment

Instructions

1. Prayerfully consider your answers to the questions
2. Complete the assessment on your own
3. There are no right or wrong answers
4. Don’t be concerned about “whether” you can do it or “how” it can be done
5. Complete the assessment as if you have no obstacles to fulfilling your heart’s desire


Questions

1.If I could snap my fingers and know that I couldn’t fail, what would I do?
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2.At the end of my life, I’d love to be able to look back and know that I’d done something about:
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3.If someone were to mention my name to a group of friends, what would they say I was really interested or passionate about?
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4.What conversation would keep me talking late into the night?
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5.What I would most like to do for others is:
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6. The people I would like to help most are:

• Infants
• Teen Moms
• Divorced
• Career Women
• Parents
• Unemployed
• Prisoners
• Children
• Single Parents
• Widowed
• Young Marrieds
• Minorities Empty Nesters
• Elderly
• Poor
• Youth
• College Students
• Singles
• Homeless
• Disabled
• Hospitalized
• Others

7. The issues or causes I feel strongly about are:

• Environment
• Child Care
• Homosexuality
• Discipleship
• AIDS
• Politics
• Violence
• Injustice
• Racism
• Education
• Addictions
• International
• Economics
• Reaching the Lost
• Technology
• Health Care
• Poverty
• Family
• Abortion
• Hunger
• Literacy

Others:

8. List the top few positive experiences you’ve had in your life and briefly describe what you did and why it was meaningful to you. (These experiences may have taken place at home, work, school, or during your free time. It may have been a clock you fixed or a dress you made. It may have an award you received, an election you won or helping someone in need. These should be experiences that you enjoyed and felt fulfilled doing.)

9. Finally, read through what you have written and look for an underlying theme. Based upon my answers to the above questions, I sense I have a passion for: ___________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________

Identifying your passions may not be easy. This is just the beginning of the process of identifying and clarifying your passions. As you think and pray, your passion will become clearer and clearer.

*Adapted from “The Network” by Bruce Bugbee, Don Cousins and Bill Hybels