What’s the importance of passion in your life? Where does it take you?
Introduction
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.
Here we take a look at how important passion is and what different forms it
must take in order to point our lives in the right direction, i.e. in the direction of
super success.
The Highway of Passion
“When work, commitment, and pleasure all become one and you reach that
deep well where passion lives, nothing is impossible.”
You have a 9 to 5 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. The job isn’t
moving upward either. You are actually stagnating in your career and mentally
and spiritually. Something is missing.
Passion. The one quality that textbooks and instruction manuals and company
procedures will never talk about. Everyone is in such a hurry to make you fit
perfectly into the machine like a well oiled gear, that they forgot you are a living,
feeling human being. Even you have forgotten.
Ask yourself. If I had a million bucks in the bank, what kind of work would I be
doing? Would I chuck this humdrum job and move on to something really
exciting? Something that I have always wanted to do? Then ask yourself – why
am I not doing that right now? Is it because of peer pressure or because I don’t
want to move out of my comfort zone? Don’t want to rock my boat? You are half
asleep in your boat already and in a few years, you could be put out to pasture! If
the boat rocks now, you could be jerked awake and come to your senses. Your
passionate senses.
In the aftermath of the recession of 2008, millions of people lost their jobs. Many
of them took up new vocations and suddenly found that they were finally
following their dream. Many of them are now highly successful in their new
found professions.
You don’t have to wait for dire straits to rock you out of your present mediocre
life. You can decide right now, that you want to live and work passionately and
make your life worthwhile. The Highway of Passion is an amazing ride. And
Prosperity is just one of the landmarks on this route! Get ready for the ride of
your life!
Finding Your True Passion
“Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.’
– Georg Hegel, German philosopher
So you have decided to break away from the pathetic monotony of your regular
job. You want to live fully and passionately and reap all those rich rewards at the
end of the rainbow. How do you find out what you are truly passionate about?
How do you separate the delusions from the do-able? You could be passionate
about becoming the King of Spain, or winning the lottery or ruling the world.
Indeed, there are people who have dreamt of that and done it. Alexander the
Great ruled almost the entire known world in his time. But what is your true
passion?
Here are a few steps you can take to discover the currents that move you deep
inside:-
1. Read your own body language. How does your body behave at your
present job? Does it tense up and ache all the time? Do you get panic
attacks very often? Are you so bored that you doze at your desk? Do you
keep looking at the clock as break time approaches? Then you are in the
wrong job. You simply don’t have the passion for it. When you work on a
job that you are passionate about, all your aches and cramps will dissolve.
You will find yourself working extra hours, talking to your friends about
your work and simply bubbling with life.
2. What did you love doing as a child? Your childhood hobbies and
obsessions can indicate a genuine passion. Education and family pressures
often move us away from our true calling. Did you love bikes or gardening
or trekking? Then maybe a career in the automobile or landscaping or
travel industries is where you should be! So sit back and recall your
childhood and write down your memories. What made you smile then may
still make you grin today and in the future.
3. What do you love doing as an adult? You might very well have passionate
side pursuits even today. Do you love your moonlighting job more than
your regular day job? Many corporate honchos work the night shift as
chefs or night school teachers. Start spending a few hours every day on
your pet hobby. It may just hold the key to the real you!
