Do Your Goals Match Your Passions?
by Josh Hinds
Published on this site: July 11th, 2004
Making sure our goals are properly aligned with our passions only
makes sense. If you have the wish to move up the corporate ladder,
start your own business, or just about any other worthwhile endeavor
you're going to make things a lot easier on yourself if you're working
on things that get you personally excited and make you feel alive
when you're working on them (i.e. following your passions).
We hear this a lot I know... But have you ever stopped to ask yourself
why this is?
Hopefully this will help...
A simple rule of thumb is to do the things that you'd do even if
you weren't getting paid to do them. Napoleon Hill, author of Think
And Grow Rich often referred to this as doing more then you get
paid for. In fact, he regarded this as a key to success. If the
ideas good enough for Mr. Hill, I can assure you, it's good enough
for me :-)
The simple reality is that most any level of lasting achievement
takes effort (even the over-night successes we sometimes hear about
rarely happen exactly over night). Often it means going above and
beyond the call of duty. Going and doing just a bit more then may
be expected of you in your job description.
Foregoing something in return for the results you're sure you'll
reap later on. Even if others might not see you as exerting quite
as much effort as they are (I get this all the time since I "just
sit at a computer all day and work from home"... ha ha). Even
so, you're putting forth effort.
I can tell you I can't imagine how much I'd dread getting up each
and everyday if what I was doing wasn't aligned with something I
also have a strong passion for. Believe me, it's a feeling worth
implementing into your own life.
In summary, I believe that following our inner passion allows us
to sit in a more natural path with regards to achieving our personal
dreams and desires. Why is that? I believe it is because instead
of counting the hours till we get off and can work on other projects,
we'll be more excited about the task at hand.
Which I believe in turn is a lot more likely to equate to more
productive results. Wouldn't you agree? Not to mention, we're destined
to have a whole lot more fun day to day (and I believe derive more
lasting meaning in our lives)... To your success, Josh Hinds.
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