Are you passionate about your dream?
This is the third article in a series on How to turn your Great Ideas into Reality.
The word passion derives from the Latin root “passio” meaning “suffering” or “being acted upon”. A more commonly used context is “an overmastering feeling or conviction.”
What does suffering have to do with your dreams? Hopefully nothing. But the idea that you are being acted upon by your passion, that you have an overmastering conviction to pursue your ideas or dreams is vital to success in achievement.
In the last article, “How Important Is this Dream?” we discussed whether or not your dream was important to you. Let’s assume you have established that it is. The next question is…
Are you passionate about your dream?
Perhaps it’s important for you to get a master’s degree, or even to land your first job as a summer intern. The importance may stem from outside influences such as your parents or your academic advisor. But unless you have a passion for the achievement, your actions will most likely stagnate. Following through to completion will be painful for you at best.
“Until you find the passion that drives you, your work will be tedious and unrewarding.”
An idea for which you have passion…for which you have an inexplicable conviction to pursue…is bound to succeed, since you will not let anything deter you on your path. What seem like obstacles to your onlookers are barely even perceived as bumps in the road to you. Rather you meet challanges along the way with enthusiasm, learning from each small adventure.
The cumulative success of each obstacle you overcome simply fuels your passion even more, until you are on an unstoppable path to accomplishing your dream.
Take some time and think about what you are passionate about…for what causes will you have an unflagging desire to pursue?
Action Step:
Review the idea lists that we have generated. For each idea that you have identified as being important, take a few moments to consider how passionate you are about them. See if you can highlight the top 1-3 ideas for which you have true passion, the ideas which you will have an unflagging desire to pursue despite naysayers.
Other articles in this series:
Part 1: How to turn your Great Ideas into Reality.
Part 2: “How Important Is this Dream?”
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This post is so dead-on! I’ve found that finding the passion that drives you is easier said than done! What drives me is collecting experiences, learning new things, and dreaming up ideas and creating plans to turn them in to reality. After 2 years of running my own business where I got the pleasure of doing these things, I realized that I had become bogged down in the details and am now taking action to get out of the details and back into the fun.
What you say here is so true!
“Until you find the passion that drives you, your work will be tedious and unrewarding.”
There really is no need to live like this. It is possible to live a life of your design if you consciously create it that way!
Thanks for this post!
Christine
Christine, you’re right and it’s great to see that you will try to put these principals back into practice in your own business!