Passion, Purpose & Play! That's it! It's that simple.
Passion: Find it! Do what it is that you love to do; do what makes your heart sing and expand. When you lose all sense of time and could swear you've been touched by the face of God, that's passion!
Purpose: Live it! Discover the thing you are called to do. Once you know your passion, that special thing that rocks your world; find a form of service, a job or hobby, and go with it. Serve with the thing that you love to do. That's purpose!
Play: Yes! Did I say play? Absolutely, play! Once you've tapped into what makes your heart sing, and you're doing what you love to do, let it flow, let it flow, let it flow. Lighten up. Have fun with life, and play (play BIG!)
Assignment: Ponder over the next few days what YOU love to do. Don't minimize or censor anything. What comes natural to you? What are you good at doing? What do you have absolutely NO FEAR around doing?
Excerpt from http://www.therebelbelle.com/blog/2010/09/hi-folks-its-me-again.html
Passion intensifies focus.
In a complex world where we're moving ahead at ".com"speed and in which we get bombarded with information, it's easy to get distracted. Passion gives people the courage to say "no" to distractions by staying focused on the bigger "yes." Passion is the magnetic force that pulls people together for a common vision or cause.
Passion unleashes creativity.
Innovation and creativity are key factors in adding value to the customers you serve. Approaching your business with a new perspective requires you to be fully awake, fully alive and fully present. Passion is what activates your mind, expands your awareness and challenges you to think outside the conventional box.
Passionate people raise the standards of performance.
Passionate people keep themselves and others accountable and tolerate nothing less than a 100% commitment. This commitment to a higher standard becomes contagious and spreads throughout the system, and eventually becomes part of a company culture. People with passion create an electric, exciting work environment that inspires and energizes others. They consciously contribute to building the kind of culture that attracts world-class people. A culture people want to belong to.
Passion conquers fear.
When your passion is greater than your fear, you develop the courage to step outside your comfort zone, risk more, fail faster and learn like crazy.
Perhaps the most exciting benefit that comes from cultivating passion in your organization is the contagious enthisiasm it generates. Something so alive in them awakens something that needs to be alive in us.
Passionate people inspire hope and that's one of the reasons they're so much fun to be around.
How passionate are you?? ...
