Use Your Passion to Increase the Effectiveness of
Everything You Do
By Dr. Bruce Eichelberger
Imagine if you could tap into an unlimited
amount of energy to use for any worthwhile activity, any
project, any opportunity. What would that mean for your success?
You will be able to do exactly that if you
know exactly how to tap into your passion.
Those of you who've gone through Leadership
Awakening have already glimpsed the potential of this
potent force for moving through difficult times and
achieving your goals. Some of you continue to push the
envelope every day by bringing this passion into every important
aspect of your life. There are others, unfortunately, who end up getting distracted or losing focus on this
crucial part of what gives their actions power.
So, for this issue of Let the Journey
Continue, let's look
at how passion fits into the process of achieving our
goals and how we can cultivate it to be even more effective. And
along the way let's also examine how passion directly relates to
all your activities and relationships, both in business and
in your personal life.
Why include passion in every aspect of your
life? Wouldn't it be easier to simply do the minimum
necessary to get by?
The short answer is that you don't have to
include passion, and yes, it might be easier to do the
minimum. On the other hand, how much more energy and
attention does it really take for you to make your passion
for life a part of your everyday experience?
I'd like to challenge you for a moment to
consider this idea:
It takes you the exact same amount of time
and energy to show your passion for living or not in every
single action you take during the day. For example, when
you:
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First get up in the morning.
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Have a great idea for improving your
work or business and want to present it to those who can
help make it happen.
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Greet your spouse, children and friends
each day.
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Interact with customers, vendors and
fellow workers/employees.
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Write your '5 & 5' each morning (you
are doing that, aren't you?)
I could to on, but you get the point.
In fact, I believe from my own experience
and that of many, many other graduates I've spoken with,
that actively including your passion as part of everything
you do actually makes everything easier! I intend to show
you how this is true in this article.
So how can you make sure that your
passion shows in every interaction you have during the day?
What techniques and knowledge do you need to implement this
powerful process and change your experience of the world
around you in a very positive way?
As a graduate, you already know how to use
your "orange ball of energy" to focus yourself and
get unstoppable results. Ask yourself if you are you using
it to full advantage or if you could bring this to bear in
other areas of your life.
What about using some of the other tools you
learned in Awakening? Have you reviewed your handouts, your
journal, the commitments you've made to yourself lately?
Have you re-read your Mission Statement from class? Have you
refined and improved it lately? What about your class
homework? Did you follow through on it?
There are so many other ways you can fire up
your passion. Here's a short list:
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Attend an Awakening Graduation
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Use the Empower U forums to communicate
with your Team members
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Send someone you love through class
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Do you '5 & 5' every morning (see
below, "Action You Can Take Today" for more on
this)
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Surround yourself with others who share
a passion for living - it's truly infectious!
Can you think of more ways you can use to
keep your passion alive?
Although each of these examples (and perhaps
others you can think of) are simple in and of themselves,
you will see an tremendous synergy effect when you do
several of them every day. Here's a real-life example of how
this works:
A friend of mine had very poor vision, but
didn't do it for many years because he felt as though he couldn't afford
them. In
fact, I would say that he very much missed seeing sharp
details in the world around him and it reflected in his
attitude. He wasn't angry or unkind, just sort of low-key
and emotionally flat much of the time.
One day, he decided that he would 'bite the
bullet' and spring for the glasses. When he got them he was
amazed! He could see everything crystal clear and down to
the smallest detail. As he walked around during the day he
also noticed something else - everyone around him had a big
smile on their face! He commented to me that he was sorry he
hadn't gotten glasses sooner because he had no idea that
there were so many happy people in the world.
As it turns out, people weren't
necessarily any happier in general, but when my friend saw
everything so clearly he had a huge SMILE on his face as he
went about his day, and naturally everyone he ran across
saw this and smiled back! A true example of the effect of
showing PASSION and how that reflects back to you in the
world.
Can it really be this simple? Absolutely.
But don't just take my word for it. I challenge you to make
the commitment to yourself to use the tools at your disposal
and to discover even more ways to bring passion to your
everyday life. I guarantee it will be more rewarding than
you can imagine!
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