Maybe you have a 9 to 5 hour job drawing a good pay, you have a good family and all’s well with the world. But deep inside, you feel like you are going nowhere. You are actually stagnating in your career mentally and spiritually. You realize something is missing. But what could it be?
Passion. The one quality that textbooks and instruction manuals and company procedures will never talk about is all you might need to alter your life. In the world of business today, everyone is in such a hurry to make you fit perfectly into the machinery like a well oiled gear, that they forgot you are a living, feeling human being. Even you have forgotten.
You cannot become rich or achieve any other kind of success in life if you don’t have passion about what you are doing. Be it the simplest thing or the most sophisticated thing, you need passion in order to succeed. So you may ask "What generates passion in people?" Where do they get their energy from? Passion can be fueled by many factors. Let us examine only 4 most important sources of that Force.
1.Curiosity.
One of the most powerful triggers of human invention has been curiosity. Why does something happen? How does lightning occur? What happens if you mix two chemicals? Which route will discover new lands? The human mind is programmed to question everything around it.
2.Challenges
A challenge can be posed by a person upon himself or by external forces. A personal challenge can arise from adverse circumstances of poverty or deprivation. Rags-to-riches stories have been told for hundreds of years now. Even Presidents of countries have risen from humble beginnings and gone to their positions of power by the sheer force of their passion.
3.Faith
One of the most powerful engines of passion is faith in an external agency. Though faith may seem to have been marginalized in today’s seemingly rational society, it still works behind the scenes in many areas. Religion plays a dominant role in the lives of millions of people in the world today. Priests, nuns, monks, sadhus and mullahs are known to accomplish tremendous feats of social work and penance. Their faith in God and their religious ideals is the rocket fuel in their lives.
4.Legacy
When you are young, your motivation for working and living lies in larger income, better standards of living and general having a good time. But as you grow older, your priorities change. You want something more fulfilling. You seek to achieve goals that you will be remembered for. A sense of urgency begins to set in as time passes. And the source of your passion arises from wanting to leave behind a legacy.
The list could go on and on and on but what is important is for us to recognize the important roles that passion plays in the shaping of the world. And I will give you a few examples.
Steve Jobs’ passion for what he was doing led him to search for a better computer user interface that finally gave us the Apple computer with the now familiar graphical user interface using icons, which eventually spread to the whole world of computing in the form of Microsoft’s Windows.
Thomas Alva Edison out of passion tried out thousands of versions of the electric light bulb until he came up with one that worked. Madame Curie and her husband Pierre Curie spent all their lives unlocking the secrets of radioactivity.
Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama, Ronald Amundsen and all the great explorers of the world traveled passionately in the quest of conquering new land for humanity. After centuries of looking up at the moon, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin actually walked on the lunar surface.
Your passion could be a great tool that could take you places.Don’t stifle it. Don’t let it die. Instead, give it the right fuel and watch it blaze like an inferno. This would be the inferno that lights your way to success because the world has always and would always be built with passion.
Wishing you all the best.
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