IDENTIFY YOUR PASSION!

What do you want your legacy to be? 

Passion is a feeling of intense enthusiasm towards or compelling desire for someone or something. Passion can range from eager interest in or admiration for an idea, proposal, or cause; to enthusiastic enjoyment of interest or activity; to strong attraction, excitement, or emotion towards a person. (The “thing” you’re passionate about). Passion compels you to take risks and push yourself past your current limits.

It could be a hobby, injustice, art, sports, public speaking. Anything you feel strongly about. (Including things you can’t stand. Intense dislike of something is also a kind of passionate emotion and can drive you to create something new.). It doesn’t matter. If it pulls you and fills your thoughts, or makes you come alive, then it’s passion.

Passion will inspire and encourage you even when you come up against challenges. What I’ve found in life, is that it’s our passion that directs us in the best possible course for our lives. This doesn’t mean the outcome is always what you’d imagined it would be. You might head in one direction, only to find it’s led you in a different direction. But you wouldn’t have started the journey towards the first destination if it wasn’t for the passion behind it. And in the end, wherever you end up is always where you needed to go, as a person, to grow and learn.

Before you can achieve success, you will have to define what success means to you. While it may take years to realize what you want to do with your life, identifying your passions, interests, and values will help you set goals and give your life a sense of meaning. If you have trouble identifying these things, then ask a friend or family member to help you. 

Ask yourself the following questions:

1. What do you want your legacy to be? 

2.  How would you like to be remembered by others? 

3. How do you want to make your community a better place? 

4.  What are some favourite subjects of interest in your life? 

     

       For example, think of subjects you enjoyed studying in school. 

      Ask why you liked them.

·         For instance, you may have loved musical theatre. Think: was it because you loved the music, or was it because you loved working with a big group towards a common goal?

Rally People to a Better Future. Donald Trump once remarked, “If you don’t have passion, you have no energy, and if you don’t have energy, you have nothing.” It all starts with passion. Passion stirs the emotions of your listeners when you use it to paint a picture of a more meaningful world, a world that your customers or employees can play a part in creating. Marcus Buckingham interviewed thousands of employees who excelled at their jobs during his seventeen years at the Gallup organization. After interviewing thousands of peak performers, he arrived at what he considers the single best definition of Success: “Great Success rally people to a better future,” he writes in The One Thing You Need to Know.

According to Buckingham, a successor carries a vivid image in his or her head of what a future could be. “Successors are fascinated by the future. You are a success if, and only if, you are restless for change, impatient for progress, and deeply dissatisfied with the status quo.” He explains, “As a success, you are never satisfied with the present because in your head you can see a better future, and the friction between ‘what is’ and ‘what could be’ burns you, stirs you up, propels you forward.

This is leadership.” Mark’s vision must have certainly burned him, stirred him, and propelled him forward. Mark in one of his talks lives seminars once said he dreamed that every person in the world would own a trademark: A handwork to be specially known for. To make everyone stand, strife and achieve the success we all hope for.