Passion

Passion is like gasoline that you put in your automobile. By itself, gasoline is dangerous and easily ignited. Yet when fed to the well engineered and maintained engine, the gasoline can be a powerful, driving force. Indeed, the automobile cannot operate without it. Similarly, your life cannot operate without passion, and yet pure, uncontrolled passion can be very destructive. When passion is channeled through discipline, focus and purpose, then it becomes a powerful driving force.

Without passion, life has no energy. You have no desire, no driving force. Even though you may have a finely built and well-maintained automobile, without gasoline it gets nowhere. Even though you might have all the tools and preparation for life, without passion nothing happens. Passion is the fuel for your life. You must have it to move ahead.

What is it, specifically and authentically, that you are passionate about? You can’t just be passionate. You must be passionate about something — a person, a cause, and idea, a goal. Find something that you’re already passionate about, and then extend that passion. What is your passion? What gives you the energy to create, the will to persevere, the strength to grow? You have a passion. There is something that drives you, something that makes you care, something that you cannot deny. Tap into the power of that positive passion, and anything is possible.