365 Exciting Ways to Live - Excitement # 52: Grow Your ‘Passion Tree’

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

– Denis Diderot

One force, which drives all of us into action, is our passion. If we are not passionate in doing

what we have undertaken to do, we will not take the maximum effort to turn out the quality that we are capable of producing. Slightest obstacles will discourage us from pursuing our project. The more we are passionate, the more we will like what we are doing. If we do not have passion, we will get irritated even with slightest setbacks. The question is how to develop passion.

Try the following for a month and notice your passion tree grow!

• Try self-affirmation. Tell yourself several times a day that you love what you are doing.
• Visualise the benefits you will derive when you complete the project.
• Take ‘vitamins for the mind’. Read empowering quotations.
• Avoid negative people, who may douse your enthusiasm.
• Seek the company of such people, who will support and encourage your project.
• Have a legend as your role model and your benchmark.

Get interested in work and commit to excellence.

(From my book '365 Exciting Ways to Live')
NC Sridharan
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