The Biggest Secret About Success - There is No Secret!

Everyone has things that come easily to them. Things they do that are almost effortless yet create amazing results. The tasks you excel at reveal your natural gifts and talents. They describe what you are naturally great at doing. If you develop them and put them to work, you have the beginnings of a great career or business. In most cases, the things you excel at are the exact things you love to do! When you find what you love you are getting closer to your passions in life. Once you find your passion you are on your first step to finding your purpose.

If you don't have passion and purpose, greater productivity won't help you! If what you do with the best hours of your day is not also the thing you're passionate about, stop right now!

Stop right now and confront the cold hard facts for what they are: no amount of effective training, time management skills, productivity tips and tricks or goal setting know-how will replace the critical missing ingredient of your life: PASSION. If you have it, Life is better, your business is better and your relationships are better. You get up in the morning with excitement of the new day and you aren't focused on what could or is going wrong in life.

Until you discover your "fire within" you will remain condemned to a life only endured, not lived; to delicacies only tasted, not devoured; to joys only imagined, not experienced. And in old age you will lament the days of your youth, when fears about money and security kept you from taking the leaps of faith and courage in the direction of your dreams.

A life lived in moderation is not the stuff of stories told to grandchildren with a twinkle in your eye.

Passion is - Found from inside, Natural , Comes with balance, Heart felt and Genuine, Dynamic,Empowering

What Passion Is Not !
Many people are confused about what passion is. Just as important to understand is what passion is not so it isn't confused with destructive emotions. How many people do you know that put years into their work, wake up one morning and realize they
don't like what they do, gave up there most valued possession (time) and their family? And their PASSION was their family.

Passion is NOT - Addictive / Obsessive (Workaholic, Not There when you are There), Great talent alone, Forced, Fleeting, Chasing (money, fame, fortune)

How To Discover What It Is?
Are you frustrated because you can't figure out what you want to do with your life? Do you wish you wake up one morning with the AH HA, that is it?

The problem is that to find your passion, you need to first know where to start. And no one ever teaches you how to find or define the gifts you are given or what you would love to do for a living.

Consider this - Robert Kriegel and Louis Patler, If It Ain't Broke ... Break It

"One team of researchers followed a group of 1,500 people over a period of 20 years. At the outset of the study, the participants were divided into two groups: Group A, 83 percent of the sample, was composed of people embarking on a career path they had chosen solely for the prospect of making money now in order to do what they wanted later in life.

Group B, the other 17 percent of the sample, consisted of people who had chosen their career paths so that they could do what they wanted now and worry about the money later.

The data showed some startling revelations:

* At the end of the 20 year period, 101 of the 1,500 had become millionaires.
* Of the millionaires, all but one - 100 out of 101 - were from Group B, the group that had chosen to pursue what they loved.

The key ingredient in most successful projects is loving what you do. Having a goal or a plan is not enough. Academic preparation is not enough. Prior experience is not enough. Enjoyment of your life's work is the key."

In this current financial crisis, what is your passion? Through adversity comes clarity.