A funny thing happens when we leave school or college and enter the workforce. We fall prone to a strange type of amnesia.
We remember the basic details about our self but for some strange reason we forget all the dreams and ambitions that fueled us through our early years. Those ideas that kept us awake at night and which represented excitement and endless possibility. As we get ready to enter the workforce we suddenly forget these early dreams and instead replace them with more secure and reliable options.
It is probably helped by the fact that society regularly enforces the message that those childhood dreams could never represent an occupation that was financially “safe” or one that offered secure employment. Instead it was time for you to consider a more mature approach.
It was time to park those childish dreams… it was time to grow up!
But what if giving up those dreams and opting instead for what might appear like a very logical and predictable route to achieving success in life, would actually result in the opposite happening?
Worse still, what if I told you that for many people it could have a negative impact on their mental health.
What if success in life wasn’t about securing entry to a desirable collage or securing a job in a respected industry? Though these things represent great achievements, they might not be as related to achieving success as you may have been led to believe.
Of course I am not suggesting that the form taken by your childhood dreams are necessarily suitable career options. Unfortunately not everyone is destined to be an astronaut, racecar driver or princess. However they do contain some key information. Information that could help you unlock success in your life.
The childhood dreams regarding your future career are by their nature, a perfectly unpolluted representation of the things that you as an individual are passionate about. There are no boundaries regarding those dreams and though as an adult you may view them as nonsensical and frivolous, if you dig deep enough you find that each dream is built on a passion that is still important to you today.
Even though you might have misplaced it!
By remembering what that passion was and by paying less importance to the form or shape your young mind might have given it, you are reminded of what excited and really motivated you. A desire to travel, to explore, to invent or create, it doesn’t matter.
What is important is to remember what your particular passion is.
Whatever the passion, it acted as the cornerstone for your childhood dreams. Allowing whatever shape your young mind desired to be wrapped around one or more of these central traits.
But why is this important? Why make the effort when a career in a well known industry, with the appropriate effort and time should get you the success you want?
The reason is very simple.
Successful people are passionate about what they do.
Let’s pretend success represents your ability to get the top of the highest mountain. You are capable of climbing but the problem is that you never really enjoyed climbing. Therefore there is a very high possibility that the experience will be less than enjoyable and will most likely take longer. For many people, this continuous effort will result in significant stress and anxiety. Many will simply give up and never reach the summit.
However what if you loved to climb. You were passionate about climbing! Doesn’t it make logical sense that for this individual the experience would be completely different and not only would they have a much higher chance of reaching the summit, they would most likely do so in half the time.
By assessing your career path based on an ability to include those things you hold a passion for could mean that you greatly enhance your chances of being successful. It won’t replace the hard work or commitment every successful person needs to commit but instead of making success a destination that requires you to fight and struggle to achieve, you could avail of a simpler route.
Maybe not as an astronaut…. but maybe not a million miles away.
Passion = Success
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