IGNITE YOUR PASSION! (3)
American medical doctors did research on their levels of
happiness after five years in hospitals. It was discovered that 85 per
cent is not happy with what they do; they hate themselves. They
have money to pay bills, buy cars, and build good houses, but they
are still unhappy. This is where the problem lies. Can you guess
why? They are doing work they don’t love. Many of them were
wrongly misled by relatives, parents, environmental, economic
factors, or peer groups. Some signed up for courses in higher
institutions because they saw someone rich a medical career or they
saw a family friend studying it and decided to do it too. People say
it is lucrative without understanding the need for passion.
In fact, it is disheartening that many parents design personal
destinies for their children as they grow, without taking the time to
discover what God has designed for them and choose courses that
suit it. It is an error of fulfilment to make a wrong career choice.
Ingredients of Passion Whatever you enjoy doing without being paid for it, you
enjoy it no matter the situation—that is your passion. When you
are on the road of passion, you keep moving even if others are not
moving. There is an extra energy from the invisible that keeps you
on track. While it is a lifetime of hard work for others, you see it
as the easiest thing for you. It is a God-driven, natural potential
compared to other things you do. That kind of job or profession is all
you are passionate about.
It is like someone that wants to travel abroad; a visa is a
necessity. In your passion, you will be taken through a powerfully
discovered VISA that represents the passport you need to travel into
your clear future: Value, Interest, Skill and Ambition. These are
all you need to understand before you can choose your passionate
career that can let you become a celebrity. If you have failed to
choose a career you are passionate about, then you are out of God’s
purpose for your life. The first thing is to discover your VISA to
create your passion; they are the work force that you have to respect
with diligence in order to be at the peak of any career.
Many professions may be around you that you can decide to
choose, but you have been created in a special way and are specially
tabbed for a particular one, an area in which you can be the best. When
you do it, it is easier than any other work. Imagine a kind of career
you are developing, and you do it to help people without being paid,
yet you are still extremely happy for your success. Experience has
shown that the kind of joy to be produced in you would be internally
more powerful than money. I have delivered speeches in many free,
organized seminars and trainings in focus to help people succeed.
I am always fulfilled by seeing people changing from their failing
ways to success. I enjoy teaching what I know; helping others out of
their ignorance gives me more fulfilment than any other thing.
Once you take note of a passionate course in your studies,
sign up for it as a career. Your passion could be created from what you
value, or from where your interests lie, or from a particular skill in
which you have been trained, or from an ambition or dream. Passion
takes you through states of happiness, satisfaction, and personal
success. Not all those that you see with huge bank accounts are
fulfilled; many don’t have internal happiness or real success. What
brings fulfillment with the help of God is living with passion, living
with purpose, and living with your dream. But the most important
one that can help you to fulfillment is your passion, because all that
you need to take you through challenges of actualizing your life
purpose and dreams is your passion. A dream without passion is like
a picture without possibilities.
Let’s look at Sam Adeyemi’s view on how Martin Luther King
Jr. acted with passion. In his book, Multiply Your Success—Lead, he
analysed that the King did not go to the Abraham Lincoln Memorial
and pronounce, “I have a plan.” That would not have inspired others
to rise and fight for blacks’ freedom. He passionately spoke like
someone who had suffered prejudice and dreamt of equality. Martin
Luther King Jr. said, “I have a dream!” There was a sense of urgency
that acted on other people’s mind and made them feel what King
felt. Your passion can inspire others do what they thought they could
not do. It helps you to lead. Without a created passion, you cannot
achieve your purpose and dream in life. I want you to discover
your purpose and have a dream. Your reason for your living and
becoming a contributor to your generation is your purpose in life; it
is your assignment in life. It is why you are here on earth, and why
you are made the way you are. You don’t need to try all things; once
you find the one thing for which you were made, you can stop
envying others. Your passion brings out your originality. A purpose
stops you from complaining about what is not working, and it urges
you to create a solution for it.