According to Merriam Webster “PASSION” refers to a strong feeling of enthusiasm or excitement. Even though passion is a powerful motivation based thought circuit it has the possibility to become weak and go off chord whenever it faces tough challenges just as you become weak when you have been struck by a virus. Furthermore, similar to how your body shape goes off shape when you skip your workout, so does your passion go off chord when it is not nurtured and fed continuously. Frankly speaking I have faced similar situations where I felt as though I had completely lost the energy which I initially carried towards a purpose.

At times the battles and conditions in life are too hard that they compel your mind to propose to give up. We need to own our thoughts. If we tend to lose the authority in managing our thoughts then your mind will manipulate you in the same way it wanted it to be. The most preferred method of our mind is the easy way, less grinding, short cuts, quick fixes and the way with the least process as such do not need commitment and focus. If you want to succeed then you have no option than taming those thoughts and planting new thought patterns. Actual thoughts and ideal thoughts are two different thought circuits.

The speed you run without any commitment is your actual speed, nevertheless if you continuously train that actual speed, you are sure to achieve a better speed which will be your ideal speed. Usain Bolt never ran at 9.58 at the beginning as his actual speed was way behind that. Continuous training, commitment and hard work provided his muscles and mind to run at 9.58 which is the ideal speed he could run. As mentioned prior at times life became really tiring for me as well where I decided to lay my sword on the ground and rest for some time, yet that was merely to re-fuel myself to work towards my vision.

Just as we pump fuel when our vehicles run out of fuel, we need to continuously re-fuel our dreams as passion is a motivational thought circuit which might run out of energy before powerful storms. This is the reason I constantly urge all of you to have a deeper purpose in life, a very powerful reason to live. A person once told me that he lost his energy due to losing his wife as she was the very reason he lived in this world. This is why it is important to have a powerful intrinsic reason as the purpose of our existence in this world beyond living on the appreciation of external human beings.

There will come a day that your children will have to leave you and take off on their own journey, on that day you should not collapse even though you may feel sad which is of course a natural feeling. That is why I mentioned that it is fine to leave the sword on the ground for some time, yet, it is essential to pick it up and step into the battle field again. There are people who easily give up playing the guitar as it is initially a painful process for the fingers, but on the flip side all brilliant guitarists have continuously practiced without giving up even amidst the pain they went through whilst practicing.

The secret ingredient of all the successful people is not their educational qualifications nor their talents but their “GRIT”, the most powerful life ingredient. GRIT is the fearless decision not to give up even amidst the tough situations in life. GRIT never comes as an attitude, it is a decision you need to make. Once you continuously decide not to give up it becomes your default response amidst challenges. I had a sever bruise in my thumb finger yesterday and my mind rapidly proposed a comfortable solution to take a day off.

As an individual who likes to own and control my thoughts I vehemently told my mind that I would go to work and perform as I could rather than accepting the easiest quick fix. Unless you control your thoughts they would take control over you. Many youngsters haven gotten into sexual immorality as they have not been trained to control the desire of watching pornography. Teaching and training are two different aspects. The life span of passion is generally short for people who are used to opt on quick fixes, their minds would always throw quick fixes amidst tiredness.

A study done by Deloitte has found that only 13% of the US workforce is passionate about their jobs. As a CEO and consultant I too have witnessed that many people in the corporate world work like walking dead bodies without any passion at all. For many the only reason that drives them to work is the job security. Each time you realise that you have lost your passion, I urge you to spend some good quality time with yourself all alone and allow yourself to re-plug into your vision. Any type of knife has the possibility of becoming corroded if it is not continuously sharpened.

Therefore, every time you sense that your passion is becoming blunt you ought to sharpen it by feeding your passion with your vision and purpose of life. Also whenever you feel tired and you feel like you want to give up, stir up your values which is the very reason that you stand up for. This will certainly invigorate you. It is important to understand the areas that you are generally weak at so that you could thrive hard to mitigate them just as you would practice hard to battle a ball which you frequently tend to be put out with. Make sure you hang around with joy bringers and vision enhancers rather than spending time with joy killers and dream thieves.

Most of the people surround themselves with dream thieves and joy killers that is one of the main reasons their passion goes off chord as what they are fed externally are all negative and demotivating food. For Comments and Corporate Training, Personal Coaching and Business Consultation enquiries – 0774 88 5656 For online purchases of the Book “The Art of Bouncing Back” – www.philipnehri.com / e-mail: [email protected]