“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle." Steve Jobs
What is your passion? What do you think you will love to do during your lifetime? Do you know anything that drives you or interests you so much that you want to put in all your efforts, time and money in it? If you don't have, find it because it is there within you for sure.
Follow your own passion and don't follow others' passions for they will never make you happy and provide you a rich lifestyle. It is important that you choose your passion and be passionate about it to pursue whole your life. I believe you can realize it like others who have followed their passions.
Let's see the people who have discovered their passions and followed them minutely.
Wright Brothers
These two brothers are the true example of following one's ultimate passion. Their love for birds and the desire to fly like birds was the ultimate passion, which prompted them to innovate machines heavier than air that could fly. They invested all their energy, money and time just to make their passion come true. Did they succeed in pursuing their passion? Of course, they did and we know how they have assisted humans to travel faster and quicker across different continents within short time.
Henry Ford
This is another person who showed an exemplary role to follow one's passion than to follow others. He wanted to design cars and help people travel across the country smoothly. Did he realize his passion? There is no doubt about it. He revolutionized the car industries and paved the way for other manufacturers to follow his footprints. Today, the passion is alive and moving all over the globe.
Bill Gates
The real example of following one's passion is Bill Gates. At early age, he discovered his passion for the computers and he went after that passion. He was very young to decide whether to follow his passion or to study others' passion. Upon listening to his intuition or gut, he decided to adhere to his own passion and the dedication to that passion has revolutionized the entire world. If he had not followed his passion, then there wouldn't be any much technological advancement. Following one's passion is the key to better life here on earth.
Steve Jobs
Another important person who loved his passion is Steve Jobs. He closely followed his heart and today you know better, who has the biggest market share in the whole world? At young age dropping out of college was not a wise decision according to conventional wisdom. He would have been a failure in the conventional world without good certificates or degrees. But he gave up the academic pursuit and dedicated his time, energy and desire following his passion. Passion is the major key to growth, happiness, abundance and satisfaction. Find out your passion and be true to it until its final day.
Mahatma Gandhi
Many of us don't know what is our passion. But we shouldn't give up the search to find our passion. Mahatma Gandhi studied law and worked as a lawyer but soon he found out that he was leaning on a wrong ladder. That was not his passion. That was his profession. He gave up his profession and decided to follow his own passion to liberate people from clutches and exploitation of British Empire. He followed vehemently his passion and succeeded in achieving the freedom he was looking for his people. When people follow their own unique passions, there is freedom, a feeling of salvation.
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison understood the profound secret that to succeed you have to follow your own ultimate passion and that can never fail you even after many setbacks and failures. His passion was to invent the electric light bulb and failed many times. But he didn't give up his own passion for he knew there was a way out.
There are many great successful people who have followed their own passions and they are today shining in the world. They have shown us the real examples that when we follow our passion, there is no obstacles, no failures, no loss but there is only success and rewards.
Find out today, what is your passion? What do you really aspire to be, do, have and enjoy? Don't ever say, you don't have any passion or love. You have within you the passion, which you suppose to go after.
Entrepreneurs, singers, dancers, artists, sportsmen and women, designers etc. all followed their own passions. To be successful, rich and happy, you better follow your inner voice to find out your ultimate passion of life. Think of the great people all over the world and learn from them how to be true to one's passion.
Be true to your passion; follow your passion to become what you want to be and live with passion. Go after what drives you and make it a discipline to do something everyday.
Alwed Ekka
Guide Coach Mentor
