The Great Energizer

Currently I am reading Talent is Never Enough by John Maxwell (2007). In one particualr chapter he quotes a study by authors Robert J. Kriegel and Louis Patler. The study, with followed the lives of 1,500 individuals over the course of twenty years, stated:

At the outset of the study, the group was divided into Group A, 83 percent of the sample, who were embarking on a career chosen for the prospects of making money now in order to do what they wanted later, and Group B, the other 17 percent of the sample, who had chosen their career path for the reverse reason, they were going to pursue what they wanted to do now and worry about the money later.
The data showed some startling revelations:

*At the end of the 20 years, 101 of the 1,500 had become millionaires.
*Of the millionaires, all but one -100 out of 101- were from Group B, the group that had chosen to pursue what they loved! (p.35)

Passion is the great energizer. Passion takes something that is ordinary and makes it extraordinary. Never compromises your passion for the security of today. Once people start a path rarely do they get off it. You can live outside of your passion, but unless you live within your passion, you will never had really lived. God has put a burning passion within each and every one of us. When we live within our passion, we have a sustaining strength that can carry us throughout the entirety of our lives.

Passion will allow you to run longer than others. Passion will push you to continue working when others have quite. Passion will enable you to rise above your limitations. Passion will set you apart from people who are more talented. Passion will never allow you to accept things as is. It will always strive for more,work towards a higher level. Passion is never satisfied and will never allow you to stay where you are today.

Passion is key to living life at its best. Are you following your passion or are you putting it off to a tomorrow which may never come?