Wednesday, May 9, 2018

Passion or Performance

Passion will take you to performance. Performance will not take you to passion. Passion is a choice, performance is not. There is a clear difference between passion and performance. A difference that if you don't have passion, you will not notice. Nor will anyone else. If you have passion the difference is breathtaking!

Passion is hot. Set yourself on fire and people will come from miles away to watch you burn.

Performance is dry and cold and without passion. Passion will drive you to take action and increase your levels of activity in order to reach the next milestone. Passion requires love for what you are doing. Passion is not risk averse.

Performance will never be enough to make you stand out and be remembered. Performance is a has-been. Passion is a will-do. 

Passion will get you out of bed in the morning and have you running headstrong into the issues and opportunities you will face during the day. Performance will expect you to get out of bed but will only suggest that you move. Performance will not fan the flames of accomplishment.

Passion will have you demonstrable, to a point of lunacy, when you experience even the smallest victories or learn something new. Performance will plod along stepping boringly through the labyrinth of ho-hum tasks that must be done to get something, anything done.

Passion is absolutely necessary in order to be extraordinary. Performance is ordinary. If you want to be extraordinary, you have to first, stop being ordinary and passion will drive you to that place where you are not like everybody else. Let everybody else be like everybody else.

The common illusion is that to be extraordinary you have to work all the time and fully devote all of your energies to the endeavor. That is not the case. What you have to do is make the most of the time you have when you are working. Don't think of reasons you can't so something, rather think of reasons you can, and passion will lead you to that kind of thinking. 





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