Nothing Beats Passion

Have you ever wanted something and you couldn’t imagine going a day without it? Then that is your passion right there. Each one of us is “wired” differently. So, passion can be anything from playing the piano, singing, playing football, doing business, car racing, building new things, teaching or a million other things out there. We all have a purpose in life and cannot be the same. We all have our own special talents and cannot be good at everything. Nothing is impossible when we have the commitment and we are ready to put in the work required inorder to succeed.

“With passion comes purpose, a vision, a change of attitude and a meaningful life”.

Lets point out the importance of identifying your passion.

· Passion is a reason for greater success in your life

If you ask successful people the reason for their success they will always say it starts by identifying and doing what you love. Identifying your passion allows you to unlock your natural born talents. You will put much effort in trying to succeed in what you are not good at and probably still fail.

When you wake up to do what you love doing then, your job stops begin work to you but fun. Therefore, increasing your chances of success in whatever you are doing.

You have a chance to be not only successful at it but also making a difference in your field, your community and the world. When you are successful, you have an opportunity to help others around you succeed. Without passion, it is difficult to realize success in anything.

It takes a lot of hard work to be a millionaire but passion will help you remain focused on your goals and overcome challenges and difficulties that may arise along the way. You will wake up early to practice your art or sport and you will attend trainings and seminars inorder to succeed.

With passion comes greater concentration in your work. You will have a positive attitude towards your work and make little to zero errors when performing your duties and responsibilities.

Have you ever realized how the world presents to you greater and more possibilities and opportunities in your line of interest when you are focused and you have a positive attitude? You will gain the world from the excitement you present and offer to the world.

As you continuously succeed and conquer every challenge your self esteem and confidence also grows. You will educate others, be an inspiration to all people and you will make a positive contribution in your field.

As you follow your passion and purpose in life you will be serving in a niche for which you were meant to serve. You will be using your potential to the maximum and growing your talent. Soon riches and wealth will follow and life will become more and more meaningful and fulfilling. I have two examples for you here.

Usain St Leo Bolt is a Jamaican retired sprinter and world record holder in the 100 meters, 200 meters and 4 × 100 meters relay. His reign as Olympic Games champion in all of these events spans three Olympics. An eight time Olympic gold medalist, Bolt won the 100 m, 200 m and 4 × 100 m relay. Bolt is the only sprinter to win Olympic 100 m and 200 m titles at three consecutive Olympics of 2008, 2012 and 2016. Considered to be the greatest sprinter of all time, Bolt retired after the 2017 World Championships. He is currently training with Australian football A-League club, the Central Coast Mariners as a left-winger.

Sir Mohamed Muktar Jama "Mo" Farah is a British distance runner and the most successful British track athlete in the Olympic Games history. He is the 2012 and 2016 Olympic gold medallist in both the 5000 m and 10,000 m. He was born in Mogadishu, Somalia. He later moved to London. Farah is the European record holder for the 1500 m, 10,000 m, half marathon and two miles. He is the British record holder for the 5000 m and marathon, the European indoor record holder for 5000 m, the British indoor record in the 3000 m and the indoor world record holder for the two miles. Farah has raisin to be the most decorated athlete in British athletics history, with ten global titles, and was the first British athlete to win two gold medals at the same world championships.

· Time is a limited resource

Time is the one resource we never can recover once it is gone. We all have the potential

to be successful if we follow our passion and once we are successful others after us will get to learn our stories and follow our stories. When you are gone it is only your story that will remain.

Like sand through the hour glass, so are the days of our lives. Time and days are always slipping away; so ignore all distractions, negative energies and thoughts. Passion will always make you make good use of your precious time. Everything you set out to do each day will be a step towards a set goal. You will spend your time trying to grow your talent and training others. You will find the need to share your love for your passion. You will also find the need to positively contribute in your community and help others to also grow. You will leave behind a legacy.

As you grow and continuously improve on our talents you will be more tolerant and willing to share our talent with people with similar talents around you. You will work with others with different talents and find life to be more meaningful and fulfilling. This way you will be contributing to making a difference in the world.

By identifying and following your passion, you will be doing what matters most to you and what gives you a sense of accomplishment and pride therefore, giving your life a sense of meaning and making your life worth living.

· With passion you never get to say DIE

Every business has a low season, a time when business is low and a high season when you are very busy. It could be the holiday seasons, cold seasons, hot seasons, rainy seasons, when schools are open or when schools are closed. During a year, a low season is the time when the business receives the fewest customers. A high season on the other hand is when the business receives many customers. During the high season, you may be required to put in more time into the business. You may also be required to work beyond your duties. When you are passionate about what it is you do, you will have no trouble putting in the extra time and effort required for the business to be successful.

If you are passionate about your work, then working late becomes an enjoyment. It becomes much easy working through the extra hours. Even after the extra hours put at work, you will probably feel energized and good about yourself.

You will work hard to overcome any obstacles lying ahead of you in accomplishing a given task.

Once you develop the habit of not letting obstacles hinder your progress then success is guaranteed. Let me point out two examples here.

Simon Phillip Cowell is an English reality television judge and producer. He has judged on the British TV talent competition series Pop Idol, The X Factor, and Britain's Got Talent, and the American TV talent competition shows American Idol, The X Factor, and America's Got Talent. Simon is the principal founder and chief executive of the British entertainment company Syco. In the 1980s, he left EMI to form E&S Music but quit in 1983. He then formed Fanfare Records initially selling exercise videos, and music. However, in 1989, the company went under and he nearly became bankrupt. He then found a job with BMG as an A&R consultant, and set up S Records under BMG. He restarted his career in the music business by creating Novelty records with acts such as the world famous World Wrestling Federation (WWF) now World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).

Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll is popularly known by her stage name Shakira. Shakira is a Colombian singer, songwriter, dancer, businesswoman, and philanthropist. Born and raised in Barranquilla, she began performing in school, demonstrating Latin American, Arabic, and rock and roll influences and belly dancing abilities. Shakira's first studio albums failed to attain commercial success in the 1990s. She never gave up on her dreams and rose to prominence in Latin America with her major label debut in 1996, and her fourth album in 1998. As at 2001, she had sold over 10 million albums in Latin America alone.

· Passion is a reason for your growth in life

We all have set goals in life. If these goals are aligned to our passions then time becomes a valuable resource in achieving our goals.

You will find yourself developing and sticking to habits that can help you realize your goals.

Passion will help you come up with new ways, strategies and ideas to realizing your goals.

You will seek information, join training sessions, join seminars and take up more training session’s inorder for you to achieve your goal.

As you keep growing your talent and succeed in achieving your goals, you also get to grow your confidence. You will work harder on completing and even exceeding your goals. You will take up more challenging ventures, tasks and duties.

Passion makes you more productive at work, motivating you even through the failures.

Passion is naturally a growth pattern. As you continuously use your talents and work to develop your skills even further your passion is continuously growing. You will always be steadily growing, always thinking, being creative and developing new ideas, developing new strategies, coming up with new directions and perspectives. This process never ends until such a time when you stop or give up on your passion.

Passion allows you to visualize your goals, understand your goals better and plan on how to succeed.

To achieve and accomplish anything great you have to develop a passion for whatever you are interested in. Passion will give you the strength, energy, motivation and focus to eventually succeed even as you continuously seek to develop your skills. You will come out as an expert in your field as people notice and take interest in your skills and talent. People will look for you seeking your knowledge, expertise and skills. Then what will follow next after all the popularity gained is more opportunities for you to show case your skills and talent and to excel even further.

Over time, your passion allows you to develop special skills. Skills you probably did not have and skills you probably never thought you would have. Passion helps you to develop a problem solving attitude and problem solving skills. You took the risk to follow your passion and made a wise decision to never give up. With time, you will have developed a problem solving attitude. Passion is the only thing that will have gotten you this far, prepared you for the tough road ahead and even seen you succeed.

Passion will also inspire creativity and imagination. Creativity in problem solving, business management, product development, customer service and marketing and in all other business departments.

Your thirst to learn more will open new doors and opportunities for you and your business to grow and succeed. Here are some leading examples.

Barack Hussein Obama II served as the 44th President of the United States; from January 20, 2009, to January 20, 2017. Obama traces his roots back to Kenya. He was the first African American to be elected president and previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois. After graduating from Columbia University in 1983, he worked as a community organizer in Chicago and in 1988 he enrolled in Harvard Law School. After graduating, he became a civil rights attorney and a professor, teaching constitutional law at the University of Chicago. He received national attention in 2004 with his March primary win. In 2008, he was nominated for president. He was elected over Republican John McCain. Nine months later, he was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

Donald John Trump is the 45th and current President of the United States. Before entering politics, Trump was a real estate businessman and television personality. Trump was born and raised in the New York City, and received an economics degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He took charge of his family's real estate business in 1971 and renamed the business The Trump Organization, and expanded it from Queens and Brooklyn. He expanded the business to Manhattan and beyond. The company built and even renovated skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses all over America. Trump later expanded to various side ventures, including licensing his name for real estate and consumer products. Trump never filed for personal bankruptcy, but his hotel and casino businesses have six times declared bankruptcy between 1991 and 2009. The business declared bankruptcy in order to re-negotiate debt with banks and stock and bonds owners.

Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger is an Austrian-American Hollywood actor, filmmaker, businessman, investor, author, philanthropist, activist, politician, and former professional bodybuilder and power lifter. He also served two terms as the 38th Governor of California from 2003 to 2011.

Benjamin Solomon Carson Sr. is an American politician, author and former neurosurgeon. He serves as the current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, under the Trump Administration. Prior to his cabinet position, he was a United States presidential candidate in the Republican primaries in 2016.

Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson is an English business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist. He founded the Virgin Group, which now controls more than 400 companies. Branson expressed his desire to become an entrepreneur at a young age. Branson's parents were supportive of his endeavors from his early age. His mother was an entrepreneur herself. Her most successful venture was building and selling wooden tissue boxes and wastepaper bins. Branson’s’ first business venture, was at the age of 16. He started a magazine called Student. In 1970, he set up a mail-order record business and in 1972, he set up Virgin Records. Opening a chain of record stores and later came to be known as Virgin Megastores. The Virgin brand grew rapidly in the 1980s, as he set up Virgin Atlantic airline and expanded the Virgin Records music label. In March 2000, Branson was knighted at Buckingham Palace for "services to entrepreneurship". For his work in retail, music and land, air, sea and space travel. He became a known figure for his adventure and humanitarian work. In 2002, he was named in the BBC's poll of the 100 Greatest Britons. In 2004, he founded spaceflight corporation Virgin Galactic, known for the Space Ship One and Space Ship Two projects.

Julius Yego is a Kenyan athlete in the javelin throw. Yego was nicknamed "Mr. YouTube" because he learned how to throw a javelin by watching YouTube videos. Yego is the African record and Commonwealth record holder for the javelin throw. He holds a personal best of 92.72 m. He won the javelin title at the All Africa Games in 2011 and at the African Championships in Athletics in 2012 and 2014. In 2014 he won the Commonwealth Games gold medal, in 2015 he won a gold medal in the World Championships and won silver at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

· With passion your happiness in life is guaranteed

Don’t you always hate yourself whenever you are doing what you hate or completely do not like. Doing what you are passionate about and love makes you feel good about yourself, right? You have happy thoughts that are positive and futuristic.

Even the small battles that you get to win feel like you won the world war because you put in all your soul and heart to it.

Let nobody ever cheat you. This is a fact and the only truth that is out there in the world. Genuine happiness comes from identifying and following your passion. You will know it once you get to feel it and truly live for it. So go ahead and seek that which makes you happy and never forget what gets you happy and how you got there.

Following your passion will make you happy and happiness will make you physically healthy. Don’t you want that for yourself? Don’t you want to be healthy and free of the never ending anxiety, constant headaches, stomach upsets and constant visits to your doctor that can be very expensive for you in the end? Following your passion gives you greater control of your life.

Following your passion will not only be physically healthy but also mentally healthy for you. You will be happy getting up from bed each day knowing you are going to do what you love all day and looking forward to the day. Since your aim will be getting the best results, you will concentrate better at work and always look forward to giving your best at work.

Always remember that happiness is contagious. You can spread happiness to the person right next to you. If you always keep a positive attitude about yourself and life and you are most of the time happy, your spouse, family, friends and other people around you will general be happy also. They will also have a positive attitude towards life, like you.

When you are contented and satisfied with your job, you are happy with yourself and your life. You can relate better with family, friends and customers without having them deal with your frustrations in your work. Your relationships are always negatively affected when your work is not aligned to your life’s purpose. Most of the time these relationships even fall apart and marriages end up in divorces. Friends and colleagues will stay away from you once they realize just how dull you have become.

Following your passion will lead you to concentrate on your natural talents. Even when the basic needs which are food, clothing and shelter are fulfilled, you will reach a level of self actualization where you will have met your full potential as an individual.

When you have passion, money will not be your driving force. Achieving the best results and outcome will instead be your driving force. You will not be forced to get up in the morning and go to work. When you have no love for your work, the ambition soon dies out, the joy for your work dies out, you stop being creative and eventually hate your job. When you have to spend most of your time and life at work why should you have to live and waste your life on a false ambition and a false sad future? Won’t you rather spend your life doing what you love? When you love what you do, you will do it better and probably be paid more to actually do it.

A feeling of fulfillment and success is priceless. You will be happy once you realize the feeling of fulfillment in whatever you do.

Soon enough you will have to give way for the next younger generation to take charge. The feeling of satisfaction whenever you look back at your life and accomplishments is priceless. When you follow your passion you will be happy and satisfied with your life. You will be happy you left something great and meaningful for the next generation. You will have left a story and expertise they can learn from and gain meaningful experience.

Passion enables others to trust you because you develop perfection and honesty in your everyday duties and responsibilities. You are always keen not to make mistakes. You are also keen not to hurt or create distrust amongst colleagues and customers.

Even when life may not always be perfect you can be joyful that you get to know yourself, improve on yourself and live your life’s purpose each day. The toughness built because of being passionate and having a sense of purpose in life will help you live a longer, healthier and happier life.

There you are! Passion is clearly a strong and important energy for each one.

Cheers,

Peter Kirimi Mburugu.

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