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Passion is the Genesis of Genius

Passion is a force that awakens you. Passion blows the lid off your imagination, your capability and your drive. It shakes your mind free from limiting beliefs and breaks your old patterns of thinking. Passion is what gives you a sense of purpose.

Passion wakes you up to something in life that you desire so strongly that you no longer have to push yourself to do anything. You now have a different kind of drive, a force that pulls you forward. This force can be describes as hunger.

You see, passion is the first steps - it can get you going but it won’t keep you pushing forward despite all obstacles. Hunger will destroy your fear of failure.

It’s human nature to get excited about big dreams; it’s easy to spark the fires of passion, especially when you’re young. But sooner or later, when it comes to get the job done, suddenly your level of excitement wanes because you fear failure.

Hunger drives you through this fear. Hunger becomes your resolve. It is the force that locks you into a commitment, it fastens you to the outcome when you’ve decided upon a result and you won’t sleep at night until you achieve it.

You become ravenous.

Hunger is a desire so strong that when you don’t get whatever it is you’re craving, you become disturbed. You’ll die trying to get what you want if you have to because there is no other alternative.

The world is for the taking… only IF you’re hungry enough for it.

If not, you’ll get comfortable. And life gives us two choices - you either grow, or you die.

You climb or you slide.

If you’ve got a plan to fall back on, it just means there’s more room to fall.

And that’s why a lot of people have trouble sustaining their passions. They take one step forward and two steps back.

They live in a world of stutter steps and false starts.

That’s what passion without hunger will do to you and it means only one thing: you aren’t making the jump, you’re not committing, you’re holding back because you’re afraid to fail and you’ve got something to fall back on.

When there’s a safety net beneath you - your parents, relatives, a relationship, a comfortable hometown, a decent job - there’s tremendous comfort and certainty there.

But what looks like an asset can actually lock you up and paralyze you with debilitating inertia.

There is nothing like necessity to get you through a challenge.

But nothing is a necessity until you learn how to create your passions in life.

So let me ask you… what is your passion? what are you really here for?

To be clear, I’m not asking you who you want to be.

I’m asking you what do you want to create? What are you here to give? What will you share with the world?

The fastest way to create your passion is to commit to something you have an interest in. Really immerse yourself in the environment. Volunteer with your whole heart. Commit every cell in your body to learning and living that life and feel where that focus takes you.

If you can’t find your career from heaven, just describe your job from hell.

Often times, when I ask people to describe what they would NOT want to do for a living — the kind of people they don’t want to work with, the office they’d hate to be penned up in, the conditions that would make them crazy — that’s when they’re able to paint a very colorful portrait.

So once you’ve zeroes in on your passion and you’re hungry to chase it down, what’s next?

Serve something greater than yourself.

You can get anything you want, but the only way to get greatness is to find a way to serve others.

Discover your passion. Get hungry. Design the life you want to live. With massive action, flexibility, obsessive discipline, and a sense of purpose to serve something outside of yourself, you will develop the ability to consistently produce results, and you will effectively create your own path to greatness.

Keep working on yourself, keep improving, strengthening, and keep finding a way to serve more people. If you do that, I promise you — your gifts will make room for you.