Passion For Success

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Passion For Success

• February, 2008

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Passion deficit

• What are some of the symptoms of Passion Deficit?

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Passion deficit

• Symptoms of Passion Deficit (Group discussion)
• Blaming others for your unhappiness
• Longing the feeling that something is missing
• Sadness, anger, or regret
• Confusion, frustration, or depression
• Self-doubting, low self-esteem

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What exactly is passion?
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What exactly is passion?

• Personal intensity, an underlying force that
  fuels our strongest emotions
• It help us stay focused and determined
• Experience better performance, lose track of time
  and become absorbed
• Self-realization, energy, enthusiasm
• Living without regret
• The key to our happiness
• Video

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The 7 step passion plan model
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Step 1 Start from the heart

• Commit to follow my heart
• Overcome the barriers to live my passion
• become the person I really want to be

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Step 2 Discover your passion

• Discover through intuition
• Inborn, undeniable (what do you want to be when
  you grow up?)
• Discover through experience
• Gradual awareness of passion through day to day
  life (most proud experience, what do you regret,
  etc)
• Discover through change
• A life changing experience make you suddenly or
  intensely aware of underlying passion

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Step 3 Clarify your purpose

• Passion and purpose are interconnected
• Life without purpose
• Easily get caught up in activities
• Work hard at climbing the ladder leaning against
  the wrong wall
• Achieve victories that are empty
• Blinded for things that really matter to us
• Busy but not effective life
• Video

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Step 3 Clarify your purpose (cont.)

• Define what you see as your primary purpose or
  mission in life
• What is the most important accomplishment for me
  to achieve in my lifetime?
• What difference do I want to make in this world?
• What do I see as my lifes work?
• What do I want to be most remembered for
  accomplishment?

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Step 4 Define your actions

• Scope
• Decide target life area for action
• Health, Relationship, Career
• Focus and commit to make changes to the area and
  bring passion into them
• Intensity pursue it with reasonable energy
• Pace aggressive, moderate, reserved

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Step 4 Develop an action plan (cont.)

• Long-term plan
• Set long term goals
• Assign interval for achieving them
• Set milestones, measure accomplishments
• Contingency plan
• Be better prepared for the surprising or the
  unexpected

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Step 4 Develop an action plan (cont.)

• Short-term plan
• Move away from passion-depleting experience
• Whats draining your energy?
• Introducing passion-inspiring experiences
• Training, take classes, etc.
• Become an executor, not a dreamer
• List steps to achieve the goals, measure the
  accomplishments (new year resolutions)
• Now, lets work on our action plans

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Step 5 Perform with passion

• Getting started
• Investigate validation of action plans
• (brainstorming methods to validate)
• Creating a supporting environment
• Reminders
• Places
• People
• Refine your routines

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Step 6 Spread your Excitement

• Benefits of spreading your passion
• Create a positive perception of yourself in
  others
• Accomplish your objectives
• Help others
• Sustain your passion

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Step 7 Stay the course

• Great works are performed, not by strength, but
  by perseverance Samuel Johnson
• Sustain the change

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Passion plan model review
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Resources

• The Passion Path, Richard Chang
• Finding your own North Star, Martha Beck
• Do what you love, the money will follow, Marsha
  Sinetar
• Do what you love for the rest of you life, Bob
  Griffths