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Why You Need Passion To Succeed

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I’ve been in blogging for quite some time now. Lately, I’ve been thinking about why I keep on blogging. This blog is more than 2 years old, but still, I keep on blogging and bringing more inspirational posts to my readers. Most of the blogs out there cannot stand for more than 6 months.

One of the reasons for me to keep on blogging in this blog is my passion. Before I start this blog, I’d really think about what I like to talk about, and it ended up with I’m sharing motivational and success tips with here.

To be successful in life has been one of my passions and that’s the reason I keep on blogging about it even though sometimes I’ll feel it is a mundane and tedious job.

I believe that you understand that if you want to be successful in what your life, you must do something that is congruent with your passion. Just like Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, Donald Trump, Bill Gates and more. They share common traits, they are very rich and successful, and one more extra is key is that they are doing what they love.

Think about it, Michael Jackson loves to dance. He’ll do it even if he’s not rich or it does not pay him any reward. What about Michael Jordan? Do you think that he trained so hard just because he wants to get famous? Of course not. He becomes the top player in basketball simply because he has intense passion for it. He trained himself from morning until night without giving up.

As you can see now, passion is the key to success that you can never miss. But why do you need passion to succeed in your life? Here are some of the reasons I found in my research…

1. It Is The Source Of Motivation

Yes, when you do something that you love, you’ll never feel tired about it. Even if you feel tired, you’ll never complain about it. Everyone has their own field of passion. Some people like to rear dogs, some people like to rear cats, some people love to invest their money in the stock market, some people like to play piano, and so on and so forth.

The question now is, “Do you know where your passion is?”

It is only by doing something you love, you will thrive in that field. Have you ever wondered why some successful people can stay up late until 3am just to get their stuff done? That’s simply because they love to do it! They feel energetic when doing it, that’s the source of motivation you need if you want to be the person you wish in the future.

So right now, choose a field that you’re passionate about. You must know what you love to do and do more of it only then you will succeed from it.

2. It Is A Positive Excuse

Besides as a source of motivation, your passion will also work as a constructive excuse for you. Let me give you a clear example of what I mean here. Do you think that make money online is something possible? For some people, they’re skeptical, they don’t believe that it is possible to make money from the internet.

So if you have a strong passion in internet marketing, you can tell your friends or those people who don’t believe in it, “I’m just doing for my passion, I like to do it and I’ll do it even I don’t earn anything from it.”

What will that person answer you if you told that person this way? I’m sure they’ll agree with you because you’re doing something you love, it’s your hobby, they cannot disagree with what you’re doing and they’ll not stop you.

When you say that it is your hobby or your interest, you’re actually acting on it. Sooner or later, you’ll find yourself really love what you do. This is because you’re faking it until you make it real. This is what successful people always do to themselves. They picture image of them living their dreams, driving their luxury cars, achieving their goals, etc. They are faking the results so that they can be successful in the end.

3. You’ll Never Give Up

Yes, when you do something you love, most likely you’ll never give up. Look at this blog, it’s been more than 2 years, but I’m still updating it. Why? Simply because I’ve intense passion for writing inspirational articles for my readers. I like to receive emails or comments from my readers telling me how much they like my blog and sometimes they even share their dreams with me.

This is the source of great motivation for me. I don’t know about you, but I believe that when you’re doing something that you truly have intense passion, you’ll never give up. Instead, you’ll do it no matter what. Just like playing badminton. It’s been one of my hobby in sports. When my friends invite me for it, I’ll definitely give them positive answer unless I’m really cannot make it.

Even if I reject them, I’ll feel like a big loss because my heart telling me to join them for the game. I wonder if you’ll have this kind of feeling towards something you love to do.

And so these are the 3 reasons you need passion to succeed in your life. Maybe you have more reasons, you can simply leave your comments about this post.

So do something you love and live with passion!

Posted by Shawn on May 25th, 2009

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How To Become The Person You Want To Be

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Do you strongly believe that you can become the person you want to be? Here’s what I’m going to tell you, “you can be who you want to be if you follow through my advice in this article, guaranteed.”

However, before you can become the person you want, you must first make the decision that you are willing to change, to become who you want to. There’s no point telling you how to become a successful person that you always wanted to be if you don’t want to be one, right?

Next, you have to decide who you want to be. Do you want to be like Tiger Woods? Enjoying the sports you like while still earning tons of money? Do you want to be like Tom Cruise? Become a movie star and get known in the eye of the world? Or do you want to be the next Bill Gates? Become ultra rich? The choice is yours.

You can be who you want to be as long as you know what you want. And I’m here to tell you, don’t doubt about whom you can be and what you can accomplish in your life. You are who you think you are. If you think you’re someone who’s poor and live a mediocre life, you will be that person.

It is your thoughts that will determine what you do in your life and hence affecting your life. This is just the warm up for this article. Once you’ve decided you want to change your life and be the person you always wanted to be, follow through these 2 simple steps…

1. Learn Everything You Can About The Person You Want To Be

If you want to be a real estate superstar, then study about the people in real estate, what they do, their mindset, their beliefs, their physiology when they close deals, the way they talk to their prospects, the way they breathe and more. In other words, you want to model the person who you wish to be.

I believe that you can find a lot of useful resources from the library, your local bookstore or even the internet itself. Just like if you want to be an internet millionaire, you must study the proven system used by successful internet millionaires. People like Ewen Chia, Mike Filsame, John Reese, etc, are the people who you need to learn from.

Learning is the fundamental part to becoming who you want to be. The more you learn about your idol or your guru, the more you will think and act like them. Thus, you will be creating the similar results just like them in the end.

This is how you can be the top 5% in your industry. No matter what field you are in today, be it dog training or children’s education, if you want to be your market leader, you must commit to constant and never ending learning.

Spend at least 1 hour into reading books, articles, or even listen to audio programs that will help you to become who you want to be. Think about it, if you want to be a superstar in selling, and you keep on improving yourself in this area by constantly reading, attending seminars, listening to audio tapes and modelling people who are great in selling, what do you think will happen to you?

The answer is obvious, you will become the superstar in selling. You will be who you want to be in your field by constantly learning and improving yourself in that area.

However, learning is just one side of the equation. To be who you want to be, you must also…

2. Apply Those Knowledge, Skills And Experience That You Have Acquired

The main differences between a super achiever and an under achiever is this, the lack of action. If you’re not doing anything, you’ll never produce anything. Have you ever wondered why some people who have master degrees or PhDs fail to accomplish amazing results in their life but those who dropout of their school produce amazing results?

Everyone has the ability to learn and to acquire new knowledge, but not everyone is willing to apply the knowledge they have in their mind.

Have you ever bought any how-to-get-rich  or any how-to-be-successful type of books? I bet you have. Did they work? Not likely. This is because more than 90% of the people who bought a book or an audio program never apply the knowledge that they’ve acquired from the book. What a big waste.

So this is it. In order to become who you want to be in your life, you must first learn about the person you want to be and then just take action to be the one.

If you want to be a millionaire, learn all about becoming a millionaire, and then just apply those strategies into your life. This is the only way how you can be who you want to be.

What should you do now in order to achieve what you want in your life? Follow through these 2 steps that you’ve learned in this article. Or if you need more guidelines, read this article, 5 Guaranteed Steps How To Get What You Want.

Posted by Shawn on May 21st, 2009

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The #1 Killer Of All Successes

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It’s been quite a long time since my last post here. I’ve been quite busy lately (just my own excuse for being lazy and putting things off). I’ve just finished my 4 years university life as a student, and now I’m waiting to go into the so-called “real world”.

I’m going to start my work or my “job” as an real estate negotiator this coming June. This is a no salary job. It is a 100% commission based work. Therefore, a lot of people actually disagree that I work as a real estate agent. After all, many people have the mindset that they must work and get paid for it.

I’m not thinking it the same way, for me, I’m thinking to get paid for my performance and not because of wanting a fix salary. That is why I chose this work. Anyway, this is off topic. Let us get into today’s topic.

So what is the #1 killer of all successes?

Do you know why most people live a mediocre life and get nowhere in their life? The answer is very simple, procrastination, or inactivity.

Many people know what they want in their life. Some people think of building their own business, they have a lot of constructive and creative ideas, but they just don’t implement them.

I bet you are the same. So do you know what you want to achieve in your life? Have you achieved it?

I bet the answer is a big no, right?

This is what is stopping most people from getting what they want in their life. In fact, there is no procrastination. Not doing something is also a kind of action, the unproductive action.

If you suppose to read the market analysis for your business, but in the end you spend the time to watch television, it is not procrastination. You did take action, just that you’re taking the wrong action and produce the wrong results.

Therefore, no matter what you do in your life, you’re doing something, the action you take will either lead you to where you want to be, or it will lead you further away from what you want in your life.

Now, you knew what is stopping you from getting what you want in your life, so how can you overcome this?

One of the easiest and simplest ways to overcome procrastination is to take action without thinking. When you come across an idea of creating wealth, straight away write it down, create plans and take action. Don’t allow yourself to have the time to think.

The more you think the more you are going to procrastinate and not doing it. So don’t allow yourself to have the time to think twice. It is just like if you have to wake up 1 hour earlier every morning to jog, once you woke up, straight away get out of your bed, don’t think and don’t lie on your bed anymore. Once you woke up, brush your teeth, wash your face and change your clothes, and then just get out of your house and jog.

If you think whether you should jog or continue to sleep, most of the time you will end up sleeping. It is the same in doing business. I know that you have to consider a lot of factors before you start a business, but remember this, if you keep on thinking and without taking any action, you will never have your own business.

Most people fail because of inactivity. As long as you can get a breakthrough and taking consistent action, you will achieve what you want in your life.

Remember what Nike has to say, “Just Do It!”

Posted by Shawn on May 18th, 2009

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