Comments on: Have You Discovered Your Passion? http://www.entrepremusings.com/index.php/2009/05/25/have-you-discovered-your-passion/ babbling about business, babies, and parenthood Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:58:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Aruni http://www.entrepremusings.com/index.php/2009/05/25/have-you-discovered-your-passion/comment-page-1/#comment-6809 Aruni Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:42:44 +0000 http://www.entrepremusings.com/?p=1465#comment-6809 @thom - I can relate to the not being supported...mostly because of life situation at the time. It's funny how people put parameters around who will be successful because they do things a certain way. I remember teachers trying to get me to change the way I hold a pencil which is not the normal way. Now my son does the same thing and I tell him 'that's just fine...you can write that way and still be just fine!' :-) @thom – I can relate to the not being supported…mostly because of life situation at the time. It’s funny how people put parameters around who will be successful because they do things a certain way. I remember teachers trying to get me to change the way I hold a pencil which is not the normal way. Now my son does the same thing and I tell him ‘that’s just fine…you can write that way and still be just fine!’ :-)

]]> By: thom singer http://www.entrepremusings.com/index.php/2009/05/25/have-you-discovered-your-passion/comment-page-1/#comment-6798 thom singer Sat, 30 May 2009 17:42:12 +0000 http://www.entrepremusings.com/?p=1465#comment-6798 I had a passion as a kid for writing... but it was not one of those things that anyone supported. The "starving artist" thing did not appeal to my parents. My 8th grade English teacher (Mrs. Nicholidas) harshly chastised me after I failed a grammar test. She told me I had no business in the advanced English class, and I could never be a writer (she was a young teaching in 1980 and probably thought she was giving "tough love"... instead she left me hating writing for decades). Now I have written books. Turns out you can do what ever you want. Grammar issues? get an editor! I think you will find what you are looking for... just by looking your passion you get a better chance at finding it!! I had a passion as a kid for writing… but it was not one of those things that anyone supported. The “starving artist” thing did not appeal to my parents.

My 8th grade English teacher (Mrs. Nicholidas) harshly chastised me after I failed a grammar test. She told me I had no business in the advanced English class, and I could never be a writer (she was a young teaching in 1980 and probably thought she was giving “tough love”… instead she left me hating writing for decades). Now I have written books.

Turns out you can do what ever you want. Grammar issues? get an editor!

I think you will find what you are looking for… just by looking your passion you get a better chance at finding it!!

]]> By: Aruni http://www.entrepremusings.com/index.php/2009/05/25/have-you-discovered-your-passion/comment-page-1/#comment-6794 Aruni Sat, 30 May 2009 01:57:01 +0000 http://www.entrepremusings.com/?p=1465#comment-6794 @Erin - I'm so glad you've found your passion. The post was really about me and my search for passion and as you say reconnecting with the child inside. Sometimes others need someone to believe in and support them no matter what. @Erin – I’m so glad you’ve found your passion. The post was really about me and my search for passion and as you say reconnecting with the child inside. Sometimes others need someone to believe in and support them no matter what.

]]> By: Erin Defosse http://www.entrepremusings.com/index.php/2009/05/25/have-you-discovered-your-passion/comment-page-1/#comment-6779 Erin Defosse Thu, 28 May 2009 21:29:20 +0000 http://www.entrepremusings.com/?p=1465#comment-6779 The passion I have for the school was born out of two things: seeing my children and me wanting them to have the best of everything in the world and me trying to reconnect with a deeply powerful part of my life - my own childhood experience at school. I have dreams about my elementary, middle, and high school all the time. Now I get to channel that into the school and feel empowered by it. It is a really remarkable experience. What keeps me going is not only my internal passion but the passion I see in others when they get "hooked into" the school as well. We are all somehow trying to reconnect with the child inside us and I think this is a way for me to do it. As for my exercising and bike riding, those aren't passions in the same way as the school is. But that is another different and very long story. :-) <abbr><em>Erin Defosses last blog post..<a href="http://austinbilingue.wordpress.com/2009/02/16/magellan-international-school-to-open-august-2009/" rel="nofollow">Magellan International School to Open August 2009</a></abbr></em> The passion I have for the school was born out of two things: seeing my children and me wanting them to have the best of everything in the world and me trying to reconnect with a deeply powerful part of my life – my own childhood experience at school. I have dreams about my elementary, middle, and high school all the time. Now I get to channel that into the school and feel empowered by it. It is a really remarkable experience. What keeps me going is not only my internal passion but the passion I see in others when they get “hooked into” the school as well. We are all somehow trying to reconnect with the child inside us and I think this is a way for me to do it. As for my exercising and bike riding, those aren’t passions in the same way as the school is. But that is another different and very long story. :-)

Erin Defosses last blog post..Magellan International School to Open August 2009

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