The first principle for achieving success is passion and I absolutely believe that you have to have it in your life if you want to have access to the energy that is required to create success.
Passion provides our energy, our drive for taking
action, especially when those actions are hard and/or challenging. In simple terms we derive
energy from our passions.
Try this quick exercise.
Stop and close your eyes for a moment think
about your passion. It could be one or more of many things such as:
- Playing a musical instrument
- Singing
- Physical exercise
- Playing sport
- Water based activities
- Drama
- Art
- Reading
- Gaming
- Studying
- Learning
- Cooking
This list doesn’t have an end! It could
go on and on and on.
Once
you have identified your passions focus on one of them and think about
it, remember yourself doing, see yourself doing it. Notice
what happens to your body when you start imagining yourself doing your
passion.
When I ask participants in my programs to do this
exercise you should see what I see! While their eyes are closed as they are imagining
themselves doing their passion,
whatever it is, people smile! It is as if they can't help it. Smiles simply appear on their faces!
It just happened to you too, didn't it.
If you require evidence that passions drive your energy then here it is! Just notice the smile on your face.
However a sad fact is that as many of us get older, we
stop experiencing our passions. Just when our lives get busier and more
serious, just when we need more energy to create the success we desire, we stop
living and experiencing our passions. If you think about it, isn’t that just
plain crazy?
Our passions ‘leave’ our lives or they simply fade
away from being present in our lives. Yet we need our passions in our lives in
order to give us the energy to get through some of the less passionate things that
we have to do. No matter how successful we become there will always be things that we have to do to create our success that aren't the most fun in the world to do.
As
you consider your passion or passions, are they present in your life
now? When did you last experience your passion? When is the next time
you plan to
experience your passion?
Interestingly your passion doesn’t have to be
'present' all the time for you to benefit from the energy it provides.
As an example many people have travelling as one of their passions. For many of
us such a passion is ‘serviced’ when we have annual leave holidays from our
work. So what people with this passion will do is book in and pay for their
travelling experiences a long time in advance. As a result they have the
positive energy benefits of looking forward to experiencing their passion.
If you don’t have a passion and can’t remember ever
having one, you have a wonderful opportunity to include this in your Vision. For
example. as part of your personal vision you could write, “In 12 months’ time I
will be living a regularly experiencing at least one life passion.”
Remember, when planning for success it’s okay to write
things down into the Vision section of your plan even when you have no idea about
how they are going to be brought into reality. In fact, this is usually true
for most things that you write down in the vision section of your plan and why
writing them down is so powerful.
In wrapping up, what's your passion or passions? How are you leveraging the energy that they generate?
Gary Ryan facilitates the OTM Plan for Personal Success® program. Click here to find out more about how you can create a plan for your personal success.
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