Thursday, March 16, 2006
PASSION - the fuel that powers your career vehicle!
Carole Spiers - The Empowerment Guru grows successful people. An International Female Keynote Speaker, Conference Chair and Business Mentor who helps you to achieve step by step success with inspiration and motivation. www.carolespiers.com
A dynamic career-man is often described as a ‘driven’ man.
His personal drive may be merely a by-product of abundant energy and self-discipline. But more likely, it stems from a fundamental passion that motivates his actions, year in, year out - like a high-octane fuel that powers a high-performance vehicle.
By living your passion, and making it work for you, you will find yourself exploiting your gifts to the greatest effect - known to be the principal root of happiness and fulfillment.
Passion on the big scale
It is well-known that most of the great industrial success-stories can be traced back to the private passion of one individual.
Giant strides in agriculture, medicine, transport, entertainment, have their origins in the passionate belief of one person in the promise of a new and unfamiliar system of thinking and working.
It is almost the first law of invention that a new concept is considered unworkable, crackpot or immoral until proved otherwise. So when you consider the amount of ridicule and abuse that often greets these pioneers before the balloon goes up, you can see that they would need every ounce of passion they’d got. (A less committed entrepreneur would simply shrug and cut his losses.)
Equally, when the enterprise starts to grow and diversify, that same passion needs to be communicated to whole departments if the momentum is to be kept up. The development of big organisations through their various growth-stages depends largely on maintaining a high enough level of inspiration and belief in the future of the product and the enterprise.
For a captain of industry to see his original private passion blossoming into a great institution, a famous name, a major employer, perhaps with international influence, must be one of the great moments of human achievement.
Passion on the small scale
Some of the most heartwarming success-stories are not on the big scale.
Small-scale career-passions often represent the triumph of the individual over the mass, and may contribute much to the colour of our daily life.
An obvious example is the self-employed artisan, the illustrator or engraver, perhaps crafting some of those hand-woven place-mats or greeting cards that can unexpectedly brighten up our day.
Then there are the thousands of obscure little specialist trades and professions that we remain largely unaware of. Someone has to grade the particular wool that makes doll’s hair. Someone has to manufacture church equipment. Someone has to visit trade shows to represent freelance coppersmiths, violin repairers, or welders of ornamental horse-brasses. When we occasionally meet these obscure backstreet traders, we often notice a quality of special pride and satisfaction in their work out of proportion to their income, which may be very modest indeed.
As many of these specialists are also in demand by mainstream industry, these are not just quaint little folk-stories. They signify a kind of gland, without which the main body cannot function.
Living your passion is a privilege if you can achieve it. But it is also a kind of duty to yourself. And it has the effect of inspiring others to follow your visibly successful example, in addition to all the unexpected bonuses that flow from someone wanting to put more in instead of just wanting to get more out.
Carole Spiers - The Empowerment Guru grows successful people. An International Female Keynote Speaker, Conference Chair and Business Mentor who helps you to achieve step by step success with inspiration and motivation. www.carolespiers.com
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