The incredible rewards for being passionate about your work

For 25 years, I have been pursuing a profession as a speaker and executive coach, as Australasia’s Passion Provocateur.

I left a career I loved as a lawyer to play a bigger game, a game as an educator, a facilitator, an executive coach, a game that would enable and en-courage more people to choose to be passionate about their work, about their activities, about their lives.

Unfortunately, I consider that I have failed in my aim of increasing the numbers of people who are passionate about work.

Almost everywhere I look, there are vast numbers of workers doing their work without passion, without enthusiasm, without inspiration, with little innovation and creativity. Workers who work at their jobs just to get some money to survive another week.

I think that is a shocking waste of human genius, imagination, creativity, innovation, and growth.

I think it also makes life much tougher than it needs to be.

So, there is no option, the show must go on!

I need to continue with my work.

I must continue to share the wonderful rewards for you, the reader, for all of your colleagues, for your families and friends, of being passionate about your work.

What are those rewards? How about this for a start:

·        World-class performers are always passionate: that’s how they become world-class

·        Living a life of significance

·        Being full of energy and highly productive

·        Being at peace on the inside while performing at the highest levels

·        Creating fulfilling and rewarding relationships

·        Using the Law of Attraction effectively

·        Taking the calculated risks that need to be taken to achieve greatness

·        Being willing to make the mistakes that are the needed to develop skills

·        Clarity of goals

·        Clarity of vision

·        Acting with integrity

·        Having the courage to speak the truth

·        Acting consistently with your ethics and values

·        Acting in accordance with your organisation’s ethics and values

·        Having plenty of fun and laughs

·        Living a loving life

·        Loving what you do and loving what happens to you on the way!

What’s the alternative to being passionate?

Here’s what I see as the consequences of working at a job without passion:

·        Lower income

·        Plenty of negative thinking

·        Poor decision-making

·        Excessive levels of stress

·        Not much fun

·        Feeling dull, boring, lifeless much of the time

·        Poor quality relationships

·        Poor work/life balance

·        Little meaning or purpose on a day-to-day basis

·        Little personal growth

·        Feeling unfulfilled, unhappy, unsuccessful!

 So, I urge you to explore your innermost thoughts and feelings, and to understand the price you are paying if you, or those whom you lead, are not passionate about their work.

I also en-courage you with this thought: many more people could be passionate about their work if simple and small changes are made in their work places. Over the past 25 years, it has amazed me in working with the teams that I have assisted how it is often the little things that kill passion.

What kills your passion?

What kills the passion in the people with whom you work and live?