Shine With Grace

Just read the article Cultivating Burning Desire by Steve Pavlina, in which he started by asking the following questions:

How committed are you to achieving these goals? Under what conditions would you give up? What if you could significantly increase your desire to achieve these goals? What if you wanted them so badly that you knew with absolute certainty that you would absolutely, positively never ever give up? When you are truly 100% committed to reaching your goals, you move from hoping to knowing. If you want something badly enough, then quitting is simply not an option. You either find a way or make one. You pay the price, whatever it takes.

Burning Desire 

Burning desire…  If you really want to achieve something great, you need burning desire, the passion and drive to carry on during the eleventh hour, when things are slow, when progress sounds like a wishful thinking.  How to cultivate burning desire?  In addition to the 8 very practical steps Mr. Pavlina shared in his article, I think loving what you are doing plays a crucial role in achieving your goals.

Do What You Love   

Love what you do.  Do what you love.

~ Dr. Wayne Dyers

Have you been engaged in a task that you don’t like, that you can hardly find meaning in doing it, that enjoyment is out of question throughout the task?  How good is the end result?  Given deliberate effort you may produce reasonably good results, yet, it is very hard to attain outstanding level if you don’t love what you do.  Why?

One of the major reason is instead of devoting all your energy and strength in getting the job done, you have to devote energy and time persuading yourself in doing it.  In addition, it is very hard to “go with the flow” if you are operating incongruently.  After all, how can you sell a product if you don’t find it attractive yourself?  With some luck you may sustain at good times.  However, quitting is just too tempting when hard time comes.  In any case, mediocre would be the most possible outcome.  

Take a look of the great achievers, won’t Richard Brandson hate building organisations, Donald Trump hate making deals and Thomas Edison hate doing experiments?

So How About Risk?

He that is over-cautious will accomplish little.

~ Fried rich von Schiller

Avoiding risk at all cost could be the riskiest action on earth.  Is staying within the comfort zone while wondering why you don’t reach the next level  a good choice? 

There is a question that I ask myself every time when make a move sounds risky:

What would be the worst outcome and, can I handle it? 

If I am confident that I can handle the worst scenario, why should I hold myself back?  Most of the time, the risk is not as big as you imagined…

A ship in the harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

~ William Shedd

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