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student," but she kept in touch with her mentors during the next few years, and is now going back for her doctorate, on her way to becoming a professor.

4. When you look at your list, circle any items that you do simply to pass away the time, without any true enjoyment. If you absolutely LOVE watching reruns on TV, fine. If you feel uncomfortable about the time you spend doing that, you have found the free time you need, to do something that really matters to you. It does not have to be something like saving the poor from starvation, however noble that would be. It can be something like making more of a small collection you have started. Love of collecting items that have special value to you, will take you all over the world on your Internet browser and help you become extremely knowledgeable on that subject.

5. Let your computer be your doorway to opportunity and the discovery of your passion. Steer clear of the temptation to waste time in role-playing games or chat rooms. (Just one hour a day comes to over 7 weeks a year!) If you can avoid such temptations, you can make your computer a key to finding your passion, and even ways to finance your pursuit of it.

6. Never think it's too late for you to find your true passion. Grandma Moses started painting when she was in her late 70s, and it turned out to be the path toward what she really loved. No, her true passion was not art. She did not feel emotional involvement with her paintings, any more than she did with the eggs she sold from her farm. What she truly loved was making money! And make money, she did. She lived to keep making it, and enjoying it, until she was 101 years old. She had more of a career after she turned 75, than most people EVER have.

Now, as science provides us with more clues to active longevity, we can expect to find our true passion at almost any age. In case your true passion is a late bloomer, do as much as you can, while you wait, of things that interest and inspire you.

Whatever it is that seems the most truly "you," DO IT. Stop doing the things that are alien to your nature or have no meaning for you, and replace them with things that are a perfect fit with your personality and interests. This is the way to put yourself in position for a passion to seek you out. If you are receptive when it does, your life will develop the texture and color you know is there, but perhaps always have thought was reserved for others.

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