About a year ago a client who had an NT temperament (for those of you unfamiliar with the Myers Briggs Type Indicator or the Keirsey Temperament Sorter, individuals with an NT temperament are the Rationals and tend to be logical and philosophical) commented “the better the question, the better the answer in response to my rephrasing of a coaching question. I was reminded of this when twice in the past week two of my clients asked me what other words they could use in place of “passion.”
Passion is often used to describe the skills, target markets, or business role that a candidate is interested in doing as in “I have a passion for coaching international executives”. However, the people who asked me this question wanted more than to sound good. They wanted to be authentic (a trait that impresses hiring managers) in their verbal and written communications.
Given the frequency of the question, it occurred to me that you, too, might wonder what other ways you can say passion. Here are some ideas:
- Love
- Driven
- Mission
- Calling
- Compelled
- Energized .
- I can’t wait to…
- What I was born to do.
- Natural talent
- Excited by
- Attracted
- Magnetized
You are welcome to post your own words for passion. 
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