FINDING YOUR

PASSION
PASSION
 SOMETHING THAT GIVES YOU A
POWERFUL EMOTION AND STRONG
INTEREST IN AND ENJOY.
 ACCORDING TO KENNETH
KEMNACHO, PASSION IS:

 The Love for Something

 The Burning Desire
 The Deep Genuine Hunger
 The Positive Anger
PASSION VS.
PURPOSE
PASSION

 Passion is about your emotions while purpose is the

reason behind them
 Passion can be selfish motives while purpose has a
significant focus
 Passion answers the question “what” while purpose
answers the question “why”
WHAT HINDERS
YOUR PASSION?
 Environment
 People
 Yourself
ENVIRONMENT
PEOPLE
YOURSELF
TIME MANAGEMENT
PROCRASTINATION
 EVERY PERSON SHOULD
STRIVE TO LEARN BEFORE
THEY DIE WHAT THEY ARE
RUNNING FROM, TO, AND WHY
-JAMES THURBER
 WHY DO WE
PROCRASTINATE?
MARTIN V.
COVINGTON
Professor of
Psychology,
Emeritus
1936-2018
 SELF-WORTH
THEORY OF
ACHIEVEMENT
MOTIVATION
DOMINIC
VOGE

Senior Associate
Director
University’s
McGraw Center for
Teaching and
Learning in NJ
 NIC VOGE

 “Procrastination isn’t
shameful, it’s not a sign of
weakness. It’s not a flaw”
 “The paramount psychological
need that all of us have is to be
seen by ourselves and others
as capable and competent and
able”
 PERFORMANCE SENSE OF
ABILITY LEVEL
WORTH

EFFORT
(Controlled
Variable)
 SENSE OF
PERFORMANCE ABILITY
WORTH
 High Fear of
Failure

Low Success High Success

Orientation Orientation

Low Fear of
Failure
 SUCCESS

PROCRASTINATION
FAILURE
 PERFORMANCE
SELF-
SABOTAGE FOR
SABOTAGE SELF-PROTECTION
 Protective strategy for
coping with conflicting
motivations
 Built-in Excuse (Brilliant
Strategy)

 Brinksmanship – ability to
pull stuff at the last minute
 HOW DO WE
OVERCOME
PROCRASTINATION?
 Develop Awareness
 What we feel; what we know
 Tip the balance
 Approach motives vs. Avoidance motives
 “Make it small to make it
manageable”
 Challenge P-A-W beliefs
 Discard PAW Beliefs