T. Harv Eker distinguishes passion from pleasure: passion is a heartfelt, enduring drive you'd pursue without pay, while pleasure is short-lived gratification. He argues you need real passion to give full energy to work, and that true passions last years or a lifetime.
You want to know what your passion is. It's simply a reflection of who you really are, what you really believe in, what you enjoy, what you want to be around and what you love to do. Your passion, this is important. Now, your passion does not come from your head. It comes from your heart. Your passion is not something you have to do. It's something you really want to do. It's something you might do even if you weren't being paid for it. It's something you might do as a hobby or in your spare time for fun and enjoyment. In short, if you don't really, really, really, really enjoy it, if it's not something you fervently believe in, if it doesn't resonate with your heart and your spirit, well, it's not your passion. Now there's a ton we can talk about with this whole entire topic, but for now, let me just ask you this question. What are some things that you absolutely love to do? Just think about it for a moment. These are things that you rarely have to, you know, you have a hard time getting yourself up for, right? In fact, you actually look forward to it. And that, my friends, that's the secret. That's why some people can say they actually look forward forward to going to work. Now what about other people? Well, they, they trudge through their day and they wonder, how can anybody say they actually look forward to going to work? It's because they actually do look forward to the work because it's in their area of passion. Now let me warn you that passion is not the same thing as pleasure. There's a big, big difference. Pleasures are generally short term gratifications. Passion though, that's much deeper than that. Pleasures, well, they come and go. Passions are consistent and rooted deep inside you and they stay with you for years and years or decades or even for a lifetime. There are no mistakes in the universe. There's no right and there's no wrong. You love what you love. You are passionate about something for a reason and that reason has a purpose. Short, if you don't love what you do, there is a very good chance you won't do it. And for sure you won't give it 100% of your energy and your focus. True or true?
