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Monthly Archives: December 2011

Passion For Profession – Go With Your Passion

Passion For Profession

4. It Doesn't Matter Where You Come From – Just Go Wherever Your Passion Takes You

Mike Miller now plays guard and forward for the Miami Heat, but he was drafted by the Orlando Magic (fifth pick overall) in 2000. During his first season with the Magic, Mike won the 2001 NBA Rookie of the Year Award and was the only first-year player in the NBA to appear in all eighty-two regular-season games. He was once asked to name the biggest obstacle he had to overcome in order to play in the NBA.

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Power Of Passion – Ways To Achieve Your Dreams

Power Of Passion

Here are some ways you can harness the power of passion to stay focused on achieving your dreams and goals:

 

1. Focus on That One Thing : You Are Truly Passionate About

Peter G. Peterson is the cofounder and senior chairman of the Blackstone Group, an asset management and financial services company. A graduate of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, Peterson studied under the Nobel Prizewinning economist Milton Friedman. Peterson recalled that Friedman "worshipped free markets and was also a powerful advocate of Adam Smith's concept of comparative advantage: Focus on those things you do better than others. That has been enormously helpful in defining our business strategies."

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Hardwork Is The Key To Success – Passionate About Things You Like

Hardwork Is The Key To Success

With five Olympic gold medals in her trophy case, Bonnie Blair is one of the most decorated women athletes in Olympic history. When I was reading How to Be Like Women Athletes of lnfluence, I focused the entire chapter about Bonnie Blair. I even called her husband, speed skater Dave Cruikshank, over the phone, and he told me that the key to Bonnie's success was a passion to win.

"Bonnie has the ability to drop everything around her and focus on the task at hand," he explained. "Once she was on the line, nothing would rattle her. When you saw that burning intensity in her eyes, you knew she was ready to conquer. She was so intense that nothing else mattered."

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Key Success Factors In Business – Using Passion To Focus

Key Success Factors In Business

Inventor Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) produced more than a thousand inventions that still affect our lives today – from the lightbulb to the electric power grid that powers our world. Edison routinely worked from sixteen to twenty hours a day, and he was never happier than when he was working. Why? Because he was passionate about his ideas and inventions.

 

I've read a number of biographies on Thomas Edison, and one facet of his personality that is mentioned again and again as the source of his success is his passion for the work of invention. Edison biographer Martin Woodside wrote, "Work was his passion.'' Another Edison biographer, Carole Cramer, observed, "He poured into research and development more money than his enterprises yielded – his ambition for wealth was repeatedly subverted by his passion for invention.''

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How To Find My Passion In Life – Passion To Win

How To Find My Passion In Life

Dwight Stephenson was an All-American center at the University of Alabama and later played for the Miami Dolphins. He played under two legendary coaches, Paul "Bear" Bryant and Don Shula. I once asked Dwight if these two coaches had one great quality in common. He said, "Actually, they had two – intensity and passion. I was always impressed and inspired by the intensity and passion they both had for every practice, every meeting, and every game."

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