According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary, passion is
a strong feeling of enthusiasm or excitement for something or about doing something.
In life, most times we are forced to do what we don't really
like. In school, teachers force students to do course they don't like. Some parents
force their children to study in a field they don't have passion for.
When students eventually graduate from school, life itself
forces them to take jobs they don't like. Jobs that lead to an automatic paycheck
and some level of prestige, but do not really satisfy their desire to work.
Many young people take jobs/careers, or business to impress
other people, they have forgotten that life is an exam, and every human have a different
question to answer.
To do something really well in life and business, you have
to love what you do. You need a strong feeling of enthusiasm and excitement for
your business.
When you venture into business you don't have passion for
because of money, you will not be successful at it. A good knowledge of your business
together with passion solves a lot of problems.
You have to love what you do (your business) if you want
to be successful at it. If you love your business, you are going to work harder,
you will not give up, you are going to try harder, you will eventually be better
at it, and you are going to have good success.
Remember, when the going gets tough, it's your passion
(your love for what you do) that keeps you going.
Don't think about how you can make money, instead think
about what you can produce or what service you can offer that is valuable and useful
to people and your community. What can be done in a better or more efficient way?
What problem can you solve? What needs can you fulfill? Most importantly, what will
you have fun doing? Find your passion in doing something useful for people and the
money will follow.
Sure, you need to get paid for your work, and you will
if you provide something valuable.
With everything you do, find a mission or grand purpose
beyond money that you can become passionate about. Find the higher ground above
the greedy exclusiveness of people who only care about money. Broaden your vision
to see the total picture of what you are offering. Fill as many needs as you can:
creating beauty, efficiency, health, security and livelihood for as many people
as possible.
If you want to do really well in business and life, then
you need to have monumental enthusiasm and passion. To be done right, every business
requires passion.
No matter what your business is presently, or the one you
intend to start, do it with passion and magic will happen. You will meet the right
person and get noticed. When the going gets tough, it's your passion and love for
your business that keeps you going. Therefore, find a noble cause and get behind
it with all your heart and soul.
How do you find
your passion?
Try this: for a moment, put aside any judgment and rational
assessment you may have. Start daydreaming about what you truly and really love
to do. If you could do one thing in life, what would it be? What do you get so caught
up in the fun of doing that you lose track of time? What would you enjoy doing so
much that you would do it even without getting paid? What have you been doing when
you were very satisfied with yourself? What kind of things put you in a “zone”
and leads to peak experiences? If you could be somebody that you admire, who would
it be?
Then be realistic. Doing what you love also means doing
something you can do, something you are really good at. Think about your strengths.
Find out what you are good at. Think about your unique talents and things you have
done that you are most proud of. What kind of activities come easily and naturally
to you? When you get answer to this, you build a business around it.
When you chose your business around what you love doing,
you will have amazing accomplishments. You will definitely have joy and fulfillment
derived from your business. When you work in the business you love, it is no longer
work because the activity itself is a source of energy.
Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple and Pixar, is passionate
about computer technology. He was not the best computer designer, but he was the
most passionate. Jobs’ passion made him one of the most prolific innovators of our
generation.
Be a Doer
Not a Dreamer
Passion is more important than brains or talent. In life,
there are some really talented, brainy people who fail because of lack of passion.
They always seem to have great new ideas they are thinking about doing someday,
but they never do anything about them.
The idea always stays in their heads and never gets in
their hearts. Without the heart, the idea fizzles out fast. Ideas themselves are
light and fluffy. They need tremendous passion to bring their ideas into
reality, something tangible.
Take your ideas and add the weight of passion to them as
soon as possible before they disappear into thin air. Passion is the magic ingredients
that zap you with the fierce drive for completion of every endeavor.
Get involve in
what you love doing quickly at whatever level you can, work hard, be focused
and give your best at your business.
Modified excerpt from THINK BIG; By Donald Trump and Bill Zanker
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