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By: Ben DeGeorge
Whatever you do, you better have a burning passion for it. It is after all, the driving force behind all achievement. If you don’t have that kind of emotion, then you are shortchanging whatever you are doing, yourself and those around you.
It’s pretty easy to find people who are living out their passions. A great example of this is most artists, like musicians (click here for an example), who pour their heart into their work. You can see it in their faces. Is it in yours?
If you can’t describe your job (or whatever it is that you do) with excitement, then you have a problem...a big one. In fact, it is a big problem that most people rarely think about, or try to deal with for that matter.
There are two steps you can take if you are not passionate about whatever it is that you do right now.
1) Find something else to do.
2) Increase the positive feelings that you have towards what you do.
You can increase your positive feelings in five ways: A) Bring some play into your work; B) Remind yourself how what you do effects others for good or bad; C) Remind yourself why you do what you do or what your inner motivations are; D) Assess and remake your goals; and, E) Do what you do, but do it much better!
Passion is the ultimate human emotional state. Find yours and you will be able to maximize your abilities in whatever you are doing.
A very valuable exercise is to find out what you care about - what pumps you up. Once you do that, you can start to spend more and more of your day doing what you were meant to do. I have identified that I love creating, helping others and improving myself. Whatever I do has to fit around these things.
What about you?
“You can not kindle a fire in any other hearts until it is burning within your own.” - Eleanor Doan
It’s pretty easy to find people who are living out their passions. A great example of this is most artists, like musicians (click here for an example), who pour their heart into their work. You can see it in their faces. Is it in yours?
If you can’t describe your job (or whatever it is that you do) with excitement, then you have a problem...a big one. In fact, it is a big problem that most people rarely think about, or try to deal with for that matter.
There are two steps you can take if you are not passionate about whatever it is that you do right now.
1) Find something else to do.
2) Increase the positive feelings that you have towards what you do.
You can increase your positive feelings in five ways: A) Bring some play into your work; B) Remind yourself how what you do effects others for good or bad; C) Remind yourself why you do what you do or what your inner motivations are; D) Assess and remake your goals; and, E) Do what you do, but do it much better!
Passion is the ultimate human emotional state. Find yours and you will be able to maximize your abilities in whatever you are doing.
A very valuable exercise is to find out what you care about - what pumps you up. Once you do that, you can start to spend more and more of your day doing what you were meant to do. I have identified that I love creating, helping others and improving myself. Whatever I do has to fit around these things.
What about you?
“You can not kindle a fire in any other hearts until it is burning within your own.” - Eleanor Doan
