Now think about those who have purposefully completed some really significant things [I deliberately say "destination" to distinguish between the rare souls of the occasional success that earned life and lottery in the image]. Can you think of a very important achievement that does not require considerable purpose and passion?
Through passion, I don't mean extroverted enthusiasm and demonstration passion. I mean burning feelings, intentions and personal "must", these are the recognition and commitment to the most important personal commands in life.
Love, war, peace, science, medicine and technology, art, sports breakthrough, your name. True excellence, breakthrough performance and success require reasonable time, tenacity, discipline and action. Passion is a necessary condition to promote this intention and behavior. Without passion, we lack the necessary fuel to achieve sustained, superior action in long-distance transportation required for special results.
We also need passion to push us through the inevitable setbacks [most people call it failure]. If we allow them to be an excuse for withdrawal, the setback will fail. Otherwise, frustration is just another fleeting result. Not the result we want, but the result is the same. It only fails if we never try or we give up on ourselves. If we fail, we will not fail on a particular project or profession: we have failed ourselves, our potential, our lover, even our community or the world.
The road to success is disappointing. The loser calls it a failure. The winners call it feedback. "
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~Michael Angier
The wisdom quoted above is simple, but very powerful. There is really no failure except that I never try or give in.
Peak performance and outstanding success always inspire great passion. Robert Thomas talked about the importance of "personal learning strategies" in the book "Leadership" published by Harvard University Press. When talking about one of the essential ingredients in his book, Thomas said:
The emotional aspects of personal learning strategies are as important as cognition: the most famous performing artists and outstanding leaders believe in inspirational life... Tiger Woods is close to the strength of the game to win is not just an intellectual exercise... The same can be said... How Starbucks founder Howard Schultz talks about his vision of building a compassionate company. This is an undeniable force. Embedding in this surge of energy is a desire to create great things: leaving a mark on the world, leaving a lasting memory or legacy, recognized to understand its meaning.
Think about you, the achievement of a loved one or anyone else in life. Going to school, career, marriage, raising children, hobbies that require a high level of skill; everything we do is substantive and specific, requiring great intentions, commitments, time and actions. Purpose and passion are necessary to power these things for a sustained period of time. Without purpose [the purpose will be our next habit in the next blog post] and passion, our attention, intent, focus and commitment will weaken or become distracted and misplaced.
When we purposefully monitor our passion, energy, vision and commitment levels, we can manage them effectively so that we can always make the most of ourselves, our lives and our potential.
A passionate person is better than forty people who are interested. ~EM Forrester
Our mental/emotional state greatly influences our perception and experience of things, and of course the things we choose to do. The passion and passion of passion fuels special concepts, beliefs and actions. Enthusiasm is also a driving force for optimism, and research shows that this is a powerful force that positively affects efficiency, success and happiness.
Most people seldom motivate their passion through external forces or internal incidents. The events outside do not deny our enthusiasm. Occasional things don't motivate enough enthusiasm to achieve greatness. Our mental and emotional state is always a personal choice. Of course, in some cases, manufacturing and display is an extremely difficult choice, but it is always an option.
Our habitual choices, not occasional choices, determine who we are and what we have done. Choose your passion for what you do and your results will reflect this choice.
We just have to do it over and over again. Therefore, excellence is not an act, but a habit. ~ Aristotle
Passion must be a habit, not the result of external stimuli or inner luck. Passion must be an intrinsic condition; habitual choices are driven by intentions and motivation.
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