Double your pleasure, double your fun - Shape your Life

Shape, May, 2002 by Angela Hynes

Think you could get even more satisfaction from something you like doing? To maximize your enjoyment, examine whether your enthusiasm for it is "content- or context-based," says Richard Chang, Ph.D., author of The Passion Plan: A Step-by-Step Guide to Discovering, Developing, and Living Your Passion (Jossey-Bass, 2001). When you engage in a specialized activity -- running, dancing, cooking -- purely for the joy of it, your passion is content-based. You don't care if you win, get paid or have an audience. When you are inspired more by a theme -- winning, creating, helping others -- your passion is context-based, and You'll I likely get a kick out of competing or teaching a class in it. For true peak experiences, you can combine the two.

Content-based passions

Fishing

Painting

Swimming

Tennis

Working on computers

Learning

Competition

Improvement

Involvement

Leading