Many people say success is the result of passion, but what's passion the result of? Writing in The Atlantic, Lane Wallace says,
"For the past year, I've been researching a book that's forced me to take a closer look at that question. The book is about passion--where it comes from, where it can take us, and why it matters.
And the origins of passion, I've concluded, are directly linked to this idea of "vision."
For passion to take hold, we first have to have a vision of an alternate future that ignites a fire within us: a vision of a wrong righted, a community developed, a great new product made and sold, a goal achieved, or just a new relationship full of happiness and bliss.
Not every vision leads to a passionate pursuit of it, of course. But in all cases where people do pursue something with passion, it's because there was a vision, first, that sparked an unquenchable flame and desire to make that vision real."
What's your vision? Have you allowed it unleash your passion? If not, try imagining it more vividly, in more detail. What does it look like, sound like, feel like, even taste and smell like?
