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Published by Dr. Asoka K. Selvarajah
I hope you had a
wonderful Christmas, Hannukah, or whatever.
As we go into the
New Year, it's a nice thing to know that we all have a
clean slate. However, are we going to write on it next
year the same old stuff we wrote this year, last year,
and the year before?
This issue
examines some critical factors to living life
successfully. Ponder them for yourself. See if you can
use this idea to make a change for YOU in the coming
year.
Recently, Donald Trump was on TV and described his two
major keys to success. He said:
(1) You have to do something you really love.
(2) Be willing to overcome any obstacle - even go
through a brick
wall, if necessary - in order to achieve your dream.
Now, while this may not sound like particularly new
information
to anyone who has read a lot of motivational material,
let us try
to look at it with new eyes. After all, it's coming from
one of
the most financially successful men in the world today.
First of all, you have to do what you love. There is
even a book
with a title like this, "Do What You Love, And The Money
Will
Follow."
It might seem intuitively obvious that it would be nice
to do
what you love. However, the point that most people miss
here is
that almost NOBODY does what they really love. That is
why so
very few people are outstandingly successful at
anything.
Instead, for a whole variety of reasons, MOST people do
what they
do NOT love. Many feel constrained to do so by the need
to earn
money. This is the biggest single reason given.
Our life choices are motivated by desire for money to a
far
greater extent than we imagine, or will ever accept.
Many people
who claim to be uninterested in material things are
nevertheless
working at jobs purely for the money, and not for the
love of it.
The need for money is the substance in which we all
move. Like
water to a fish, or air to a bird, we move through
it,... but it
is totally invisible to us. Our motives for much of what
we do
are concealed, even to ourselves
What is even more surprising is that many people, even
when they
DO have the opportunity to exercise choice, will still
not do
what they love.
For example, take someone who joins a Multi-Level
Marketing
scheme to sell vitamin supplements. Did that person do
it out of
genuine love for the products, and welfare for the
people he/she
was going to introduce them to? Was it for love of the
business?
Or was it just to make some extra cash?
You would hope so, and in some cases, it is true.
Actually, the most successful people in that sort of
business ARE
the ones who love what they do, love the products,
genuinely use
them, and want to benefit other through them. Those
people make
the best salesmen. They really DO succeed because their
sincere
enthusiasm is contagious to all whom they meet.
However, you can't fake it. Insincerity, hunger, that
dollar-sign
glint in your eye... it all communicates louder than
mere words
ever can. And that's the main reason why most people
fail in MLM,
or in any other activity you might care to choose. They
didn't
love it for itself. They loved it for the result it
would get
them.
Most would-be writers don't really want to write. They
want to
"have written". They want the results - the money, fame,
recognition - that comes from being a world famous
writer. But
the long hard hours of sweating over a keyboard,
fighting for
inspiration, throwing out half the stuff you write?...
Forget it!
Actually, success factor 1 that Donald Trump mentions is
an
absolute necessity for success factor 2. You simply
CANNOT muster
the will, energy and persistence for great success, if
you don't
love what you are doing.
It takes many many hours to become great at anything.
Some people
estimate that it takes 10,000 hours to become
world-class in the
field of your choice. However, most of those hours are
going to
be spent in obscurity, pounding your head to a pulp
against
seemingly unrelenting brick walls. Even to the most
enthusiastic,
the goal is going to seem impossible at times.
How much worse then will it be for the person who does
NOT love
what they're doing?
The modern world seems to have turned this equation on
its head,
and that is why there is a lot of confusion out there.
Previously, you actually had to be able to sing in order
to
become a famous singer (sounds kind of obvious really,
doesn't
it?) However, nowadays the cynicism of the music
industry has led
to a situation whereby they actively seek to recruit the
right
FACE and BODY, to fit together with two or three others
of like
mode. They then create a "pop group", and TEACH these
people how
to sing, dance, write songs, and perform on stage!
This is one example of how the values we have been
discussing
have been turned on their head. It's also why some of
the old
names are still around forty years later (Dylan, Rolling
Stones,
Clapton etc.) whilst you cannot even remember the faces
from last
year. The former already knew how to sing and perform
years
before they were ever famous. AND they loved it BEFORE
they were
famous. They would have persisted even if they had never
become
famous.
This specific example demonstrates why people DON'T do
what they
love to do. They look at the end result - usually money
- and
shoot for that instead. They think that once they have
the money,
THEN they'll be happy.
Wrong.
Certainly, you can achieve SOME degree of success at
something
you are not that interested in (I achieved a Ph.D. in a
subject
that I immediately gave up forever after the graduation
ceremony!) However, you are never going to achieve
"greatness" at
it. Nor will you ever be truly deeply happy at it.
Incidentally, this is also why so many extremely wealthy
people
continue to work long after they have enough money to
last them
for a couple of centuries. It's a point that most
unmotivated
poor people, who hate their own jobs, totally miss...
Why does Gates, Trump, Forbes, or anyone else you care
to mention
in their league, continue to work longer and harder than
most of
their own employees (who actually NEED to work)? It's
because
they LOVE what they do, and that's how they got to be
where they
were in the first place!
The story is told of how a woman started work at
Microsoft many
years ago, and was surprised to find a man lying fast
asleep
under a desk. She was about to call Security, when she
suddenly
recognized him. Bill Gates. He had been working there
all night.
They say that when Michelangelo was working on a major
commission, he would neglect to change his clothes or
take his
boots off (let alone take a bath) for weeks on end!
THIS is called loving what you do, and putting your
entire heart
and soul into it. Spending every spare minute thinking
about it,
and missing it every minute you are not doing it. It
really is a
like a romance in many ways.
So, you need to ask yourself....
Do YOU love what you do? Do YOU have the energy that can
move
mountains? If not, the best advice that anyone can give
you is
this...
Find out what it is you love, and start doing that.
Maybe you
will begin in a small way at first, in your spare time.
But water
the acorn. Over time, it will grow. Hopefully, you will
find a
way to make money with it too (Hint: Combine what you
love with a
good dose of marketing to create a commercially viable
activity
that will support you). Then, you will find yourself in
the place
you want to be.
Better to risk yourself a little, and take this approach
than to
find yourself at the top of the ladder, only to discover
it's
leaning on the wrong wall. Or worse still, not even find
yourself
halfway up that ladder, and spend the rest of your life
wondering
why.
That's where most people are in our world. Don't let it
be you.
Copyright Asoka Selvarajah 2005. All Rights Reserved.
Asoka Selvarajah is a writer on personal growth and
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