IS PASSION NEEDED?
The answer to that question is based on how you answer two other questions:
1. What is passion?
2. How do I measure success?
These are important, so stop reading and answer the questions!
Let’s look at the possible answers to these questions.
What Passion is NOT: High energy drama people who run but have no visible purpose. An overly excitable cheerleader type whose mouth is always open and ears seemed to be closed. A person pursuing a product, service, business, job, power, prestige, popularity or money.
What Passion is: Someone who […]
IS PASSION NEEDED?
Light the fire of Passion!
The lighter is such a magical tool. Push a button and presto we have fire! I watch the survival shows once in and while and cannot imagine having to start a fire with a stick, rock and piece of twine! There are no magic buttons to push to find your Passion: Fire on the inside, but there are some tips to help you create sparks. We learned in the last article that it takes a specific group of people to light our fire. Since that is the case the best way to find them is to get involved.
When I […]
MANIFESTING PASSION
There are two ways we can live our lives, and both are based on our focus. The first way is focused on ourselves. The second way is focused on others. Our focus determines everything about our lives, and a focus on others can bring peace, fulfilment, happiness, mended relationships, and overall contentment. On the other hand, an internal focus can result in frustration, anger, bitterness, division, and discontentment. Although in writing everything looks simple, putting this into practice is the hard part! How do we change our focus in a consistent manner? Can we wake up one day and decide […]
Passion is like a PED (Performance Enhancing Drug)
When I was young, and pursuing a career playing pro football, I remember a study that was done on the Olympics. In this study they asked every athlete this question: if you could take a pill that would help you win the Gold but in seven years it would kill you would you do it? The results were staggering! Almost 90 percent of those polled said they would take the pill because winning the Gold medal was that important to them. At the time I would have answered the question the same way.
Now as an older and hopefully wiser […]