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How to Find Your Passion (entrepreneur)
Exercise 1 - Revisit your childhood. What did you love to do?
"It's amazing how disconnected we become to the things that brought us the most joy in favor of what's practical," says Rob Levit, an Annapolis, Md.-based creativity expert, speaker and business consultant.
Levit suggests making a list of all the things you remember enjoying as a child. Would you enjoy that activity now? For example, Frank Lloyd Wright, America's greatest architect, played with wooden blocks all through childhood and perhaps well past it.
Revisit some of the positive activities, foods and events of childhood. Levit suggests asking yourself these questions to get started: What can be translated and added into your life now? How can those past experiences shape your career choices now?
Exercise 2 - Make a list of people who are where you want to be.
You don't have to reinvent the wheel. Study people who have been successful in the area you want to pursue.
For example, during the recession, many people shied away from the real estate market because they thought it was a dead end. Levit believes that's the perfect time to jump in -- when most others are bailing out -- because no matter the business, there are people who are successful in it. Study them, figure out how and why they are able to remain successful when everyone else is folding and then set up structures to emulate them.
Exercise 3 - Start doing what you love, even without a business plan
A lot of people wait until they have an extensive business plan written down, along with angel investors wanting to throw cash at them -- and their ideas never see the light of day, according to Cath Duncan, a Calgary, Canada-based creativity expert and life coach who works with entrepreneurs and other professionals.
She recommends doing what you enjoy -- even if you haven't yet figured out how to monetize it. Test what it might be like to work in an area you're passionate about, build your business network and ask for feedback that will help you develop and refine a business plan.
It's a way to not only show the value you would bring, but you can also get testimonials that will help launch your business when you're ready to make it official.
Exercise4 - Take a break from business thinking.
While it might feel uncomfortable to step outside of business mode, the mind sometimes needs a rest from such bottom-line thinking, says Levit, who has recently taken up Japanese haiku, a form of poetry. Maybe for you, it will be creative writing, painting, running or even gardening.
After you take a mental vacation indulging in something you're passionate about, Levit suggests coming back to a journal and writing down any business ideas that come to mind.
Question:
How to Find Your Passion?
Revisit your childhood. What did you love to do?
Revisit some of the positive activities, what make you happy?
Have you ever studied people who have been successful?
Where to find life coach?
How to build your social network?
When you took vacation the last time? Anything special?
What activities you do on the weekend?
教出全世界最快樂的小孩
Why are Dutch children so happy? (By
Kathryn Westcott BBC)
Dutch children have been rated the most
fortunate children in Europe. Their parents go out of their way to please them,
and teachers expect less of them than some of their European counterparts.
Children playing in Amsterdam
Dutch society is very child-centred
The
Netherlands has come top of a league table for child well-being across 21
industrialised countries.
The study by the UN children's
organisation, Unicef, looked at relative poverty, educational and health
standards, sexual behaviour and the children's relationship with friends and
parents.
"The Netherlands has always been a
very child-centred society," says Paul Vangeert, professor of
developmental psychology at the University of Groningen. "In particular,
there is a lot of focus on young children."
He says he is not surprised by the report.
"On the one hand you have objective indicators in the report like health,
income and education. The Netherlands is a very rich country. On the other
hand, and perhaps more importantly, are the subjective indicators, young
people's own subjective sense of well-being."
Key points at-a-glance
Much
of this, he says, comes from the relationship that Dutch parents have with
their children. And, from the fact that less pressure is put on them at school.
"If you take the percentage of young
mothers in the labour force, it's not very high in comparison to comparable
countries," Mr Vangeert told the BBC News Website. "There is a strong
tendency for mothers to raise children or take a long time off work after
children are born."
He says children are used to a "highly
protective, highly positive caring environment."
Children rule
One of the strong points of the Dutch
family, he says, is that it is very open and communicative. Relations are
generally good between parents and children and they can talk about almost
anything.
Questions:
Why are Dutch children so happy?
How to pursue happiness? Does money bring
happiness?
What do you think about European countries?
Is Taiwan a happy country? What are child
well-being in Taiwan?
How to create a "highly protective,
highly positive caring environment." for children and women?
In your opinion, taking about the world's
happiest (and saddest) countries?
Why education is important?
借鏡荷蘭〉教出全世界最快樂的小孩
‧遠見 2014/11/10
談到荷蘭，除了鬱金香、風車、木屐，你還想到什麼？這個北海歐陸的蕞爾小國，面積不過4萬多平方公里，人口僅台灣的3∕4，卻榮登全球10大幸福國家之一，荷蘭兒童更是全世界最快樂的孩子。
【文／張德齡】
談到荷蘭，除了鬱金香、風車、木屐，你還想到什麼？這個北海歐陸的蕞爾小國，面積不過4萬多平方公里，人口僅台灣的3∕4，卻榮登全球10大幸福國家之一，荷蘭兒童更是全世界最快樂的孩子。
反觀台灣，過去20年來推動教改，最終希望孩子能擺脫升學壓力、快樂成長，讓行行出狀元，卻總是愈改愈讓學生、家長焦慮。沒想到，這些教育目標卻在遙遠的荷蘭一一實現了。
《遠見》團隊遠赴荷蘭，從家庭生活、學校教育、文化思惟，解析他們笑口常開的祕訣，並獨家專訪快樂學大師與荷蘭教育界權威，提供台灣人不同的價值選項，重新檢視成功定義。
提到荷蘭，你會想到什麼？鬱金香、風車、還是木屐？ 在快樂學當道的今天，現在全球人士想到荷蘭，則是一群快樂的大人與小孩。
秋天是豐收的季節，到達荷蘭的第一個夜晚，《遠見》來到阿姆斯特丹近郊的小鎮，參加當地慶祝活動。臨時搭建的兒童樂園，有雲霄飛車、旋轉木馬，類似夜市的釣娃娃機、各式好玩好吃的攤子，人群裡有老有少，好不開心。
正當大伙玩得不亦樂乎，卻突然下起大雨，大部分的人沒有傘或帽子，即使被雨淋濕，在場不管大人、小孩，仍繼續在雨中嬉戲，完全不損興致，令人印象深刻。
北海小國的大成就
全球10大幸福國度 95％兒童滿意目前生活
荷蘭，這個北海歐陸的蕞爾小國，面積4萬多平方公里，只比台灣3萬6000平方公里大一些，人口不到1700萬（台灣的3∕4），全球競爭力排名第八，平均人均所得48091美元。但此刻看來，荷蘭更重要的成就是，名列全球10大幸福國度。尤其兒童，更是全球排名最快樂。
2013年聯合國兒童基金會針對29個先進國家做調查，報告顯示荷蘭兒童最快樂，高居第一名，在各項指數中都名列前茅。這份調查以六大評比項目，荷蘭共拿到四項第一，包括教育、物質富有程度、行為與風險、同儕與家庭關係。
快樂兒童排行榜的前五名分別為：荷蘭、挪威、冰島、芬蘭、瑞典，其中荷蘭在五項排名平均指數愈低愈好，代表排名愈前面的情況下，拿到2.4，遠遠超前第二名的挪威4.6。
這份報告還特別強調，荷蘭兒童毫無疑問是最快樂的，而且在所有國家中，是唯一各項評量指數中，都是前五名。有95％的荷蘭兒童回答，滿意目前的生活，位居第一，其次為冰島、西班牙。
研究快樂學近50年的荷蘭快樂學大師聞荷芬（Rutt
Veehoven）接受《遠見》專訪指出，荷蘭是適合居住、富裕、自由、政府效能高的國家，人們因此感到幸福，小孩也是如此。
親子互動好 問題青少年比例小
分析荷蘭兒童快樂的原因，有四大原因。首先是物質富有。相對兒童的貧困率僅5.9％，排名第二。即使弱勢家庭，政府也會提供租屋津貼，育兒補助等，讓孩子們吃得飽、穿得暖，有自己的房間。
第二是行為風險低。在行為與風險上，荷蘭肥胖率只有8.36％，在家吃早餐再出門上課的比率高達80％，兩者都高居各國第一。美國肥胖率就高達29％，僅50％有吃早餐的習慣。性開放的荷蘭，少女懷孕率僅4.74％，排名倒數第二，而荷蘭16歲就可合法喝酒，但荷蘭少年酗酒率僅7.03％，是所有國家倒數第三名。
第三是和父母的關係良好。84.5％荷蘭兒童與父母關係最好，91.7％兒童認為，母親很容易溝通，81.4％認為父親很容易溝通，每項指數都高於其他國家。烏特勒支大學（Utrecht University）青少年專家迪溫頓（Micha de
Winter）指出，荷蘭父母尊重孩子，鼓勵孩子表達感受，會透過一連串的溝通，從中了解孩子。
師生就像家人 上學是開心的事
第四是和同學相處融洽。80.4％荷蘭小孩認為同學很友善，也高居世界第一，同樣調查在芬蘭卻只有66.1％。這也是荷蘭小孩喜歡上學的原因。荷蘭學校環境溫暖、學校老師和善，並注重孩子的情緒感受。報告也指出，荷蘭PISA的數學、科學、閱讀三項平均積分為第三名，僅次於芬蘭與加拿大。亦即，荷蘭兒童不僅快樂，學習表現也不遜色。
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