Glory Post
Working hard is the cost of entry to anything. You don’t know a single person who has achieved success without putting in the effort. While some may have wealth passed down from their parents, those who have built their own success or empire from the ground up have all invested an extraordinary amount of hard work and time. There are no exceptions.
Many people spend their lives struggling to find their purpose, often falling into deep confusion along the way. But don’t worry and just be patient, because finding yourself, your passion, and then life purpose is a life-long lesson and journey.
Today, we have gathered some of the very inspiring words from inspiring people, such as Jay Shetty, Mel Robbins, hoping to give you that dose of energy! Find out what these successful people say about passion and hard work.
Jay Shetty is a British author, former monk, and Purpose Coach. He hosts his own podcast On Purpose, which has featured guests such as Alicia Keys, Khloe Kardashian, and Kobe Bryant. The show has garnered 64 million downloads, making it highly influential online.
So how I find my passion?
My simple model is the Dharma model, Dharma means eternal duty in the Vedic tradition. It’s very similar to what Ikigai (one of the best-selling book globally) has been spoken about today, which is the Japanese version of “a reason for being’, why do we live, where is meaning coming from, and it talks about the intersects of four areas:
1. What am I good at?
2. What do I love?
3. What does the world need?
4. How do I get paid for it?
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To Jay, those four areas help him unlock his passion. When you find the intersects across all of those four, you are making your passion your purpose. You will unlock your passion; you will find your life purpose. This is Path one, and there are two paths.
Path One: I find my skill set, and I engage it to help other people and become better at it, so I am becoming better in what I am good at; and I am using that to help other people, because I’m aware of what I’m quite good at, and I know what knowledge I have, what skills I have, I have some self-awareness, which is really important.
The other path that people often miss is actually just starting serving people. I just start helping people and I start to notice what I enjoy about that, and what I’m good at helping people with. So that’s Gandhi’s part.
Gandhi said that you find yourself when you lose yourself in the service of others. So for me, those are the two parts of how do I find my passion and finding the intersects between those four areas.
Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life
Authored by Héctor García, Francesc Miralles
2. STEVE JOBS
Steven P. Jobs, the innovative co-founder of Apple, played a pivotal role in the advent of personal computers and later spearheaded a cultural revolution in how music, movies, and mobile communications are enjoyed in the digital era.
People say you have to have a lot of passion for what you are doing, and it’s totally true and the reason for that is because it’s so hard that if you don’t, any rational people would give up. It’s really hard, and you have to do it over a sustained period of time, so if you don’t genially love it, if you are not having fun doing it, you will give up eventually. That’s what happens to most people.
If you really look at the ones that ended up being successful in the eyes of our society, and the ones that didn’t. Oftentimes, those successful ones loved what they did, so they could persevere when it got really tough, and the ones that didn’t love quitted, because they’re sane.
Who would want to put up with this stuff if you don’t love it? It’s a lot of hard work and lots of worrying constantly. Thus, if you don’t love what you are doing, you’re gonna fail, just a matter of time.
Denzel Washington
Denzel Washington is an American actor, director, and producer. In 2002, he won the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 74th Academy Awards for his role in the action-crime film Training Day, becoming the second Black actor to receive this honor after Sidney Poitier.
Nelson Mandela said, “there’s no passion to be found in playing small and settling for a life that’s less than the ones you are capable of living.” Don’t be afraid to think outside the box, don’t be afraid to fall big. To dream big, but remember dreams without goals are just dreams.
Fall forward, every failed experiment is one step closer to success, you’ve got to take risks, and you gotta understand you will fail, at some point in your life, accept it, you will lose. You will embarrass yourself, you will suck, at something and there’s no doubt about that. Don’t be afraid to fall, to fail, because not everyone has the guts to fail, and if you don’t fail, you are not even trying. To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.
Don’t be afraid to fall, to fail, because not everyone has the guts to fail, and if you don’t fail, you are not even trying. To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.
Remember this, young people, you got to get out there, you got to give it everything you’ve got, whether it’s your time, your talent, your prayers, or your treasures. What you are going to do with what you have, regardless of how much you got, whatever it is, whatever your gift is, give everything you’ve got.
MEL ROBBINS
Mel Robbins is an award-winning CNN radio commentator and columnist, a contributing editor for Success magazine, a bestselling author, and one of the most popular keynote speakers in the U.S. Her career began as a criminal defense attorney in New York City before she went on to establish and sell several businesses. She has also hosted television and radio shows for A&E, FOX, Cox Media, and CNN.
I think you should chase what energize you. Whatever energizes you, naturally expands you, makes you feel like possibilities, or something is simply exciting to do. It may be scary, but that doesn’t matter, because it has to do with how it makes you feel.
The truth about passion is that it’s not a person, place, or a thing, it’s the feeling of being expanded and energized. Also because passion is a type of energy, it dissipates over time and eventually becomes a routine until you (need to) find the next that energize you.
Those things that excite you, energize you every day are not random, they are connected to your purpose and passion. You just need to follow, acknowledge, and practice them on the daily basis.
PRIYANKA CHOPRA
Priyanka Chopra is an actress, singer, producer, and model. She was crowned Miss World in 2000. In 2002, she made her film debut in Thamizhan. In 2005, she won the Best Villain Award at the 50th Filmfare Awards for her performance in Aitraaz.
There’s only one you. Because there’s no one like you, and I don’t mean the superfluous, superficial parts. I’m talking about the core of you: who you are inside, your value, your beliefs, your strengths, your flaws. And once you understand who really that person is, you would have taken the first step in finding your unique self and that’s the best version of you.
Who am I really?
Most often, we don’t allow ourselves the ability to dream beyond our imagination. We don’t allow ourselves to think about the future, because we’re afraid of change, we are afraid to move away from what’s familiar, either that or sometimes you know we are too rigid to let our dreams evolve.
Change is the only constant thing in life and you are never too old or never too experienced to learn something new.
