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Passion Is A Key To Personal Success
By admin | May 12, 2009
“Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what you were put on earth to do. With such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.” – Virgil (Ancient Roman Latin Poet and Author of the epic, Aeneid. 70 BC-19 BC)
Let Your Passion Lead You To Personal Success
To find your passion is to identify your own unique purpose in life; to live your passion is to achieve the highest level of personal success. You can achieve whatever level of personal success your passions drive you toward. You can really live the life of your hearts desire and be the person you were meant to be. Those are bold statements but they are true; and more and more people are discovering this wonderful truth for themselves. But if this is indeed true, then why is it that so many people are pursuing work and careers they don’t really care about?
This whole business of “making a living” – fulfilling basic physical and social needs, often fills the lives of those with comparatively few opportunities . They work hard and never really enjoy the luxury of considering what might be termed the ‘higher needs’ of the human condition.
People in today’s workplace are indeed seeking to reach higher and often people think they have reached their peak when they have started to meet the basic human need for respect, recognition and responsibility. For many people, this means pursuing an interesting career; rather than just getting a job with a weekly paycheck.
For some however, there is still an inner emptiness. Often, this emptiness is experienced when they have actually become successful in their chosen careers. They start to wonder exactly what life has been about. The trappings of success: promotion, automobile, house did not bring about the happiness they anticipated. As Dr. Stephen R Covey puts it, this is a consequence of reaching the top of the ladder of success only to find that, the ladder has been leaning against the wrong wall all along.
To really achieve success in life, you must be bold enough to go even higher. The state that Dr. Abraham Maslow labeled ” Self Actualization”. Briefly, this means becoming the person you were meant to be; and living the life you were meant to live. Only by doing this, can you possibly hope to find the true success you really desire.
Wishing you a larger life,
BB
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