Your career passion

The levels of interest and excitement of people while at work varies from person to person. While some may feel that they are not on the correct path and they perennially run the risk of problems. On the other hand, people who are passionate, dynamism is automatic for them. The truth is that your zeal or your tedium is entirely contingent on you; and whether you move forward, stagnate or get pushed back is your own doing.  

Are you avid about your career? Do you realize the significance of having and developing career passion? Do you seek to see your career advantages multiply and usher in job contentment?

Workplaces today are different from they used to be two decades back. Everything is so rapidly changing that even a small quality has the prospect of a career opportunity. If you are able to enthuse yourself with regard to your work, you will certainly be able to make your life a stable one. However, the question is, how do you do it? Instead of trying to stroke enthusiasm and fervour around your career, you should make serious efforts to find out different factors that prompt you to be enthusiastic and fervent.  This will facilitate reaching newer career pinnacles.

I have been associated with an extremely proficient woman who had a very smooth career sailing for about a decade. But thereafter, she saw the end of the road. This condition made her re-think about her prospects and how best she could make use of her experience differently. So, she took a break and deliberated over various aspects of her career journey till date that offered her satisfaction. She was hardworking and capable of taking challenges head on. All along, she was known for her dynamism to lend new life to stagnating projects. It was her persuasive skills that made her influence others. And she did find for herself a fresh opening and is today holding a senior position – something that she had never envisioned.  Her professional satisfaction is sky-high and her future is evidently secure.

The above story ought to be serving as an inspiration for all of us to appreciate the need to be aware of the basic elements of our career that bolster passion and ardour. If we work with enthusiasm and not give up, fresh prospects will keep surfacing on a regular basis – all this despite the state of changes and flux at workplaces. Eventually, you will be able to attain a high degree of job security and thus remain in command of you career vehicle and career journey.

The importance of your career enthusiasm is indeed great and the manner in which it contributes to give you a good professional image is also great. In case you disregard it, your job will seem to be a dull and boring activity. The feeling of regret that you experience will always serve to remind you that you could have done better. Therefore, you must direct efforts to make the occasion into a memorable one. It is all about knowing your capabilities and what you seek to do. This will bestow the desired zeal in you on your professional front.

There is no way that you cannot be inspired. All you need to do is some brainstorming by asking yourself the following questions, drawing inferences and applying mid-term corrections:

·  Do you visualize that you will get pleasure if you embark on a new venture?

·  Do you envisage that any new undertaking will be stimulating for you?

·  Do you cheer whenever you put the last touches on any assignment?

·  Do you rejoice on completion of a work?

·  Do you love to hear people speak of contentious issues confronting them?

·  Do you feel the urge to help others overcome their challenges?

·  Do you get satisfaction if your boss accepts any of your proposals?

·  Do you feel important if you are called to contribute to somebody else's endeavour?

·  Do you feel happy if you induce the thought process of a client?

·  Do you derive pleasure if you hit upon an out-of-box approach to implement a project?

Remember that the most powerful weapon on earth is a human soul on fire. People will always throng to see you glow, so you do not have any option but to set yourself ablaze. Today, organisations tend to ignore individuals who do not ignite. If you are not passionate about your work, you will come to be regarded as a measly dormant individual with a similar likelihood, just like the primer of a cartridge that is of limited utility before the hammer strikes it to give out that crucial spark. Since passion and zeal drive accomplishments, one has no option but to put your heart and soul into anything that you undertake to do, ensuring concurrently that you remain pragmatic in your approach. You should chase your passion because without it you will lack energy and without energy you will be a big naught.