Finding your passion

I have spoken many times about allowing your children to find their passion and helping them to follow it.  I believe we all have certain God-given talents or characteristics.  Take my daughter for example.  She is extremely driven and goal oriented.  She has tried a lot of different sports and activities in her short life.  However to those who know her it is obvious her passions are dance and art.  Those things just click for her and she is naturally gifted in both but also so passionate about both that she really goes after that.

As parents I feel like all to often we stop following our passion and for some of us we may just never pursue one at all. While I fully believe that once you are a parent your child comes first.  That doesn't mean never pursuing anything for yourself.  I'm always flustered when asked what my hobbies are and what I like to do for fun.... I really don't have a specific hobby like crafts or reading that I could say.  I am passionate about my family.  That much I do know.  I have been tossing around the idea of getting back into the work force for awhile.  However I have a huge list of criteria: It has to be something I can work around our school and kid's schedules, If I need to take classes for it those mostly need to be available online or via homestudy.   No direct sales companies!  Nothing against those who do that.  I've done many and had some great success.  It's just not something I can get my heart into.  Which leads me to my most important criteria: I have to get excited about it.  I definitely want something I can pursue now while the kids are still at home.  I also want it to be something I can build for when they all go off to college.  I have several ideas, some practical and a few impractical.  One I am really excited about looking into. I'm not giving away any details right now.  I am very excited about it though.

So the point of this blog was really just to ask parents: Are you passionate about anything?  Do you have interests you are pursuing?  Can we really teach our kids to find theirs if we have given up on finding our own?