Passionate
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"You have to have it within you to live an extraordinary life." from Success Built to Last-Creating a Life That Matters
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| Passionate Success is more about what matters to us as individuals. Loving what you do is a necessary condition for success. People who have a passion for what they do can outlast and eventually outrun those who don't have the same passion. Passion is what will carry you through the inevitable dark moments in your life that everyone must endure at some point in their lives. Passion is what keeps you focused on your goals when everyone around you is telling you that you cannot succeed. Having a passion for something means that you would be willing to do it even if you didn't get paid for it. In fact, you probably wouldn't quit doing it even if you were paid to quit. Success may never come to you without a compelling personal commitment to something that you care about and would be willing to do with or without counting on wealth, fame, power or public acceptance as an outcome. Capitalism is arguably the best economic system in existence today, but that doesn't mean that it's perfect. There is a rising epidemic of clinical depression and suicide among the wealthiest citizens in America, China and other rapidly growing economies. Could this be because so many people set their goals on wealth, fame, power and acceptance, only to find that when they go on to achieve them, sometimes even brilliantly, they find that they are mysteriously disappointed, empty and unhappy. "Most of us worry more about being loved than being what we love. Your enduring success is not about following anybody else's road map, goals or achievements. It must be constructed on a foundation of very personal choices that only you can make." from the book Sucess Built to Last. |
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