30/01/2018
Where have all the Passion gone?
I have spent the first few weeks of this year, desperately searching for more people who are driven to succeed. They all say they are, all getting up in the morning, getting dressed, getting to the office, getting done with just enough so that they can go home, to do the same again tomorrow, to get to their pension or pay check.
But there is a serious lack of one ingredient in their lives - Passion.
Defined as - a strong or extravagant fondness, enthusiasm, or desire for anything; or the state of being acted upon or affected by something external, especially something alien to one's nature or one's customary behaviour. With other word those things that drive you to succeed.
The greatest difference is that most of us do not realise that passion for what you do is not just contained in your one dream to be successful and rich one day. It starts by being passionate about what you are doing today.
How?
If you wish to become successful in big things, you must be successful in little things. Even the things you don’t like doing today. As we know, we all have to work to gain an income, and yes, to pay our things that we have, want or dream about. That is why we go to work daily, join the rat race in the traffic, and come home with, every single day. However, that is called a JOB! I have experienced both.
People with jobs simply do just that, just enough to get the day done so that they can do it again tomorrow for that pay check, they do not take it to that next level to include passion. They simply do not understand that passion is the key to the next level.
Let’s take a cashier. How many cashiers have you encountered who greets each customer with a smile, enthusiastic and helpful? In my experience, only a hand full. The next time you go past that person who showed a little passion in that job has moved up the ladder and there is another in that post. Simply banging away at the cash register.
Even if you believe you are in a dead-end-job and you will stay there forever till you retire or die. My question to you is - so what happened to your dreams? Where is your passion to strive for that dream and what are you doing now, today, about that? I invite you to think about this a little.
If you arrive with your dream in hand at work, find what makes YOU even a little happy, like being friendly, or being accurate or being helpful, you would have achieved that day knowing that you were passionate about what you do, even if you do not like the job itself. That will get you seen at a point, someone in your company or from outside will see your passion. Be greater, do better, be passionate.
If you dream big, do more in your current post with passion, I can almost guarantee that you will see you dreams come to pass.
