Powerful words come with powerful intent. Where you have passion, strength, courage, and determination you can accomplish anything! ~K.L. Toth
Passionate people are almost always ambitious, and when it comes to passion – a strong emotion of desire – there is a need to be brave enough to both acknowledge and embrace it. But the truth is that not everyone has the bravery or the opportunity to embrace their passion. Recently, while chatting with a friend, I noticed something very captivating about him; something that seems to make all the difference, And at that instant, I felt the need to share this with you. His action and words reminds me of the many lessons I've learnt and still learning from books, podcasts and videos: Lessons on the common attributes of successful people.
I have observed over time that all successful people, in their different spheres of life, have a lot in common ranging from how they think to how they work and relate with others. And starting with their passion for life, I'm looking forward to sharing some facts about this attributes with you in the series that I title 'The difference that makes all the difference'. In the course of this series, we'll be learning about those distinguishing attributes of successful people.
To start with, the main distinguishing quality of successful people is the passion they have for life and what they do in general. The drive and energy they exert in their everyday life while at work and in their relationship with men is what makes them special and outstanding in life. Their passion for the course they pursue is what keeps them going and stirs them up to greatness.
Passion which is defined as a very strong feeling about a person or thing, is an intense emotion, a compelling enthusiasm or desire for something. Passion may be a friendly or eager interest in or admiration for a proposal, cause, discovery, activity or love – to a feeling of unusual excitement, enthusiasm or compelling emotion, a positive affinity or love, towards a subject.
If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you.” — T. Alan Armstrong
American businessman, author, and philanthropist speaker Anthony Robbins once said that 'there is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it’s the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.' And that is very true because great people are passionate people. They all have a strong desire; a desire to see their dreams become reality even when they don't know how. They are people of action. They study and work hard in the pursuit of their goals. They are fearless in times of trial. They don't become weary at work and neither do they become tired of speaking about what they do or aspire to do. They are not discouraged when people try to dissuade them from pursuing their dreams, on the contrary they allow their passion to motivate them to achieve it.
The one thing that everyone could agree on about passion is that it is closely associated with drive, enthusiasm, limitless energy, motivation etc. It is impossible to be successful without passion because passion is what is being transformed into raw enthusiasm which is then processed into an internal drive that keeps you going at anything.
If you ever want to be great, the major thing you need is passion because without it, it becomes easy for you to be weary, discouraged or even dissuaded from achieving your dreams by smaller minds and that will make achieving greatness difficult. If perhaps you belong to that category, why don't you pick up that abandoned project you got tired of or you get back to that skill acquisition class you ran away from because it was 'boring and stressful'; or maybe you're a student and wouldn't go to class because you find the subject boring and difficult or because you probable don't like the teacher's face. How about you decide to embrace that course again, and this time around, with passion because it is passion that gives you strength to walk through when you hit a wall.
And if you haven't begun anything whatsoever at this moment, I'll urge you today to find out what you're passionate about, what you would do for free anytime, and embrace it with passion.
Another amazing thing about passion is that it gives satisfaction to the individual. Passion guarantees long lasting satisfaction. They (Passion and satisfaction) both go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness that results from it is only temporary because there's nothing to make it last. It's no wonder Nicholas Sparks concluded that 'The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all."
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” —Mark Twain
To strive for your passion is to be different others who don't. Do you have the same level of bravery to embrace your passion. Whatever your passion is, keep doing it. Don't waste time chasing after success or comparing yourself to others. Every flower blooms at a different pace. Excel at doing what your passion is and focus only on perfecting it. 'Eventually people will see what you are great at doing, and if you are truly great, success will come chasing after you.' ~Suzy Kassem
On a final note,
'Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.'
— Howard Thurman,
Author and Philosopher
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