As you know, passion is the single most important key to success. If you want to be successful in your business, you’ve got to love your business, you’ve got love to run it, marketing it, manage it and so on. Without passion, nothing you do is going to bring amazing results.

There are a lot of successful people out there, everyone of them possess this key, they are passionate in what they do. Michael Jordan loves basketball, Tiger Woods loves  golf, Donald Trump has great passion in real-estate and making deals, Bill Gates loves software and Warren Buffett has intense passion in the stock market.

So you see, every of the successful people love what they do and that is why they can create amazing results in their field. The moment you are doing something that you love, it is not working for you anymore, instead, it is enjoying.

You’ll feel that you’ve the drive and motivation that can keep you going all the time. Even if it is late at night, but when you talk about something that you love, you’ll feel energetic about it.

And the key point is this, when you do something passionately, with enthusiasm, you’ll achieve what you want.

You must have been to school before don’t you? Why in some classes you’ll fall asleep? Is it because you don’t like to study or you hate the subject? What if I tell you that it is because of the teacher? It is because the teacher is teaching unenthusiastically?

Every subject that you learned in school can be interesting, if the teacher knows how to teach enthusiastically. This is why sometimes you’ll feel boring and wanted to sleep during some classes, while in some other classes, you feel 100% awake and you concentrate during the class.

With that means, no matter what you do, in order to ‘activate’ others, to get them to be enthusiastic, you must first be enthusiastic yourself. The word ‘activate’ here means motivate, drive and inspire.

For example, when you come across a salesman who is selling a pen to you, will you buy? Well, it depends. If the salesman talks to you with lousy voice where he has no interest in buying that pen himself, do you think he’ll convince you to buy? Of course not. However, if the salesman is passionate and very enthusiastic in promoting the pen to you, most probably you’ll get affected by the positive energy and eventually you buy the pen.

The enthusiastic salesman need never worry about unenthusiastic buyers. The enthusiastic teacher needs never worry about disinterested students. The activated minister need never be distressed by a sleepy congregation.

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So now you know that if you want to be successful, you’ll need to love to succeed. The question now is, how can you develop the passion?

Below are 3 simple ways how you can develop the power of enthusiasm:

1. Dig It Deeper

Make this little test. Think of two things in which you have little or no interest - maybe cards, certain kinds of music, a sport, etc. Now ask yourself “How much do I really know about these things?” Odds are 100 to 1 that your answer is “Not much”.

Years ago I don’t have any passion with blogging. Until one day a friend of mine told me what I can accomplish with blogs. Really, now I’ve dug into it, I find it interesting.

To get enthusiastic, learn more about the thing you are not enthusiastic about. Chances are you are quite uninterested about bumble bees. But if you study bumble bees, find out what good they do, how they relate to other bees, how they reproduce, where they live in winter… If you find out all you can about bumble bees, you’ll soon find yourself really interested in bumble bees.

Today, millions of people invest in corporate securities, but there are many millions more who have no interest at all in the stock market. Why is this so? This is simply because they are people who have not familiarized themselves with what the stock market is all about, how it operates, the day-to-day romance of a business.

So dig deeper and you’ll develop enthusiasm. Put this principle to work next time you must do something you don’t want to do. Just dig deeper and you’ll dig up interest.

2. Give It A Life

Enthusiasm or lack of it, shows through in everything you say and do. Life up your handshake. When you shake your hand, make your handclasp and say “I’m glad to know you”. A conservative, mouse-like handshake is worse than no handshake at all.

Try to go out there and shake your hand with successful people. You’ll find that all their handshakes are firm and fill with passion.

It is just like when you smile, give it a life, life up your smile. Nobody likes an artificial, pasted-on, rubbery smile. People go along with the fellow who believes what he says. Say with life. Put vitality into your speaking. Whether you are talking to a garden club, a prospect, or your children, put enthusiasm behind what you say.

A sermon delivered enthusiastically may be remembered for months, even years. But a sermon delivered without enthusiasms will be mostly forgotten in 167 hours before the next Sunday rolls around.

Just try this right now. Say out loud with force and vigor, “I feel great today!” Now, don’t you actually feel better than you did before you said it? Make yourself alive all over.

3. Broadcast Good News

When someone burst in and suddenly said, “I’ve got good news!” Immediately you’ll feel energetic and he will get 100% of your attention. Good news does more than get attention, good news pleases people. Good news develop enthusiasm as well.

Just because there are more broadcasters of bad news than there are broadcasters of good news, don’t be misled. No one ever won a friend, no one ever made money, no one ever accomplished anything by broadcasting bad news. Transmit good news to your family, tell them the good that happened today, recall the amusing, pleasant things you experienced and let the unpleasant things stay buried.

It’s pointless to pass on the bad. It only makes your family worry, makes them nervous. Bring home some sunlight everyday. Ever notice how seldom children complain about the weather? They take hot weather in stride until the negative news corps educate them to be conscious of unpleasant temperatures.

Be an “I-feel-great” person all the time. Just say “I feel great” at every possible opportunity and you’ll feel better. When you tell people you are awful, you’ll feel awful eventually. Transmit good news to the people you work with, give them encouragement, compliment them at every opportunity, tell them positive things the company is doing and listen to their problems.

Sometimes when you are down or you are facing difficulties, you can still broadcast it as good news. This is because you can choose how you should respond in what had happened on you. Do you still remember the formula, Event + Response = Outcome?

These are the 3 simple ways how you can develop passion in your life. Remember, without passion, you’ll never be able to create amazing results. And if you want to develop the intense passion, just follow these 3 simple ways.

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Posted on November 5th, 2008 by Shawn
Filed under: Strategic Success

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