How To Stay Aligned With Your Success
Passion doesn’t always equal easy or even lead to success. It’s great to know your “why,” but sometimes passion can get in your way, especially if it’s combined with a good amount of cognitive dissonance.
Thankfully, as someone who is self-aware and interested in introspection, you realize that you have preconceived notions and that you need to use more than passion to create success. You need the will, but you also need reality.
Know Your Personal Principles, Morals, and Values
It’s one thing to feel happy and motivated when doing a task, but it’s another to realize that this thing aligns with your principles, morals, and values. When you do things against these three core reasons for existence that you hold, it will not feel good to you, but sometimes passion can cloud your judgment.
Every Part of Your Day Cannot Be Passionate
Even when you own your own business, every job is something about it that simply isn’t the way that you want to spend your time. Sometimes you can automate or outsource to avoid it, but the fact is, you’re never going to escape doing a few tasks that you don’t want to do or don’t like to do and certainly do not feel passionate about doing. In this case, you must find the passion for the impact over the doing.
More Reasons for Your Existence
If you make your life about just one thing due to where your passion lies, it can be difficult to be a happy, well-rounded person. Match your passions with an overarching purpose that matches your principles, morals, and values.
After all, saving money every month for a future retirement can seem to lack passion and excitement, but imagine how you’re going to feel when you’re 65 and achieved your goal? Pretty passionate, probably.
The final thing to remember is that who are you are today is very different from who you may be in the future. You’re going to grow and change in ways you cannot even imagine right now, especially if you’re one to really be mindful about self-care and becoming a better person.
