Thursday, December 14, 2006
Your Business Starts With Your Passion
In whatever career you may find yourself in, there is no such thing as "information
overload." Know as much as you can, do what others do, and what the entire company
does. Equip yourself with a total knowledge of your work environment, enough to make
you feel like you own the network. Who knows, you may someday.Walking an extra mile,
being organized at work, honesty, trust-worthiness, dependability, being a team player,
loyalty, and resourcefulness are the must-be characteristics of your passion.
Are you the type of worker who is always looking forward to Monday morning? Or you
are the type of worker who’s pleading and hoping that it will always be Friday the other
day? There are workers who are called TGIF workers? What is TGIF? TGIF stands for
Thank God It’s Friday. TGIF workers can’t wait for their minimum of 8 hours a day to
finish. If you classify yourself as a TGIF worker, then you are certainly lacking something
or missing something important in your career life – passion.What does it take to be
passionate in your job? There is always that old maxim “Do what you love the most.”
A passionate worker always has the appetite to go to work every day. He or she doesn’t
mind if it's Monday or Friday. He or she treats everyday as an important day in his or
her career life. What do you think is the result of being a passionate in your career life?
When you are passionate in your job, you enjoy it and even seek for more. There is
always the idea in your mind that you can always do better than that. You are not
satisfied to mediocre work. And it pays to be a passionate worker not because you
will be accelerated into higher position nor you will be given extra compensation,
but because you can get things done in your work with a sense of appreciation.In
your work as an entrepreneur at home, you got to have extra passion.
Why do you need it? You might be asking. Take this for an instance; are you able to
sit a little longer whenever a meeting comes? Can you stay a little longer if you’re
transacting some business matters to a customer that asks too many questions? In
short, can you be patient enough but maintaining the passion in you? You can be
energetic enough in your work but it demands greater than that. Still, you need
passion in your work.So, what separates a passionate worker to a worker that only
minds work?People who practice passion in their work always perform their work at
their best. They always strive for perfection in everything. They see perfection as
unattainable in most things. But their eagerness drive them much nearer to it than
those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as an imperfection.
Passionate workers put extra care in their work and they aren’t satisfied with anything
less.At this point you might be asking either one or more of the following questions:
1. Do I need passion even though my work is just a home business?
2. To whom will I use passion?
3. What will passion do for me? What is its impact in my performance?
4. How will I know my passion?
The last question on the list is very interesting. In one way or the other, passion
creates a difference in terms of performance between a passionate worker and
the other. What do you like the most? What are your interests? What type of job
do you enjoy the most? The answers to these questions vary depending on the
personality of a worker. But whatever will it be, if you can answer the questions
then that will be your checklist on how you may know your passion. Each worker
has different passion. One’s passion is not the same with the other.
In whatever career you may find yourself in, there is no such thing as "information
overload." Know as much as you can, do what others do, and what the entire company
does. Equip yourself with a total knowledge of your work environment, enough to make
you feel like you own the network. Who knows, you may someday.Walking an extra mile,
being organized at work, honesty, trust-worthiness, dependability, being a team player,
loyalty, and resourcefulness are the must-be characteristics of your passion.
Are you the type of worker who is always looking forward to Monday morning? Or you
are the type of worker who’s pleading and hoping that it will always be Friday the other
day? There are workers who are called TGIF workers? What is TGIF? TGIF stands for
Thank God It’s Friday. TGIF workers can’t wait for their minimum of 8 hours a day to
finish. If you classify yourself as a TGIF worker, then you are certainly lacking something
or missing something important in your career life – passion.What does it take to be
passionate in your job? There is always that old maxim “Do what you love the most.”
A passionate worker always has the appetite to go to work every day. He or she doesn’t
mind if it's Monday or Friday. He or she treats everyday as an important day in his or
her career life. What do you think is the result of being a passionate in your career life?
When you are passionate in your job, you enjoy it and even seek for more. There is
always the idea in your mind that you can always do better than that. You are not
satisfied to mediocre work. And it pays to be a passionate worker not because you
will be accelerated into higher position nor you will be given extra compensation,
but because you can get things done in your work with a sense of appreciation.In
your work as an entrepreneur at home, you got to have extra passion.
Why do you need it? You might be asking. Take this for an instance; are you able to
sit a little longer whenever a meeting comes? Can you stay a little longer if you’re
transacting some business matters to a customer that asks too many questions? In
short, can you be patient enough but maintaining the passion in you? You can be
energetic enough in your work but it demands greater than that. Still, you need
passion in your work.So, what separates a passionate worker to a worker that only
minds work?People who practice passion in their work always perform their work at
their best. They always strive for perfection in everything. They see perfection as
unattainable in most things. But their eagerness drive them much nearer to it than
those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as an imperfection.
Passionate workers put extra care in their work and they aren’t satisfied with anything
less.At this point you might be asking either one or more of the following questions:
1. Do I need passion even though my work is just a home business?
2. To whom will I use passion?
3. What will passion do for me? What is its impact in my performance?
4. How will I know my passion?
The last question on the list is very interesting. In one way or the other, passion
creates a difference in terms of performance between a passionate worker and
the other. What do you like the most? What are your interests? What type of job
do you enjoy the most? The answers to these questions vary depending on the
personality of a worker. But whatever will it be, if you can answer the questions
then that will be your checklist on how you may know your passion. Each worker
has different passion. One’s passion is not the same with the other.
