Do Your Goals Match Your Passions?
By Josh Hinds
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 idea is 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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Written by Josh Hinds of http://www.GetMotivation.com
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